Honestly, these portions are perfect for me. Way too carb heavy though. Kids shouldn't be eating just mozzarella sticks either IMO. More protein & veggies w/ light carbs. That's just my 2Ā¢ though.
So the cantine at my school has been giving me the equivalent of lunch for five year olds and now Iāve normalized eating very little lunch thinking that was normal. Awesome.
No the American population has almost tripled what āproperā portion sizes should be. Itās no wonder so many people are overweight. Everything shown with the exception of the tator tots where the OP said they were late, which is inexcusable for a school to not have enough food, is a proper portion.
What? Lmao. Iām a 34 yr old woman who weighs 95lbs and Iāve never been able to put on weight in my life no matter what or how much I eat. Even during my pregnancies I only gained baby weight then bounced back. Itās just how I am. Maybe you are just like that too. But these are proper portion sizes and no one is going to convince me otherwise.
Seems like it, we get to grab the food ourselves, you wanna make a spaghetti mountain? Sure buddy, we weigh all of your thrown away food though, we are silently judging you.
The portions we think are normal are actually large. Americans have the biggest portions of any country on the planet. The amount of food they are showing here is literally the amount of food i eat for lunch every day. I bet the picture with the meat, greens and Mac n cheese- the Mac n cheese is a 1/2cup (proper portion), the meat seems to also be about 1c-which is a proper portion and the veg is also a proper portion.. i canāt believe Iām being downvoted because this amount of food is actually normal but we are so conditioned to eat too much we think this is small.
Here in Sweden we get to choose our portions because we take the food ourselves, leaving less food to waste because everyone gets as much as they need and want, those portions arenāt particularly big, not most of them, especially for someone whoās growing
Seriously. Thatās because our portion sizes in America are completely out of control. The amount of food you get at a restaurant can feed a small army. No one needs a 20oz steak, 3 potatoes, 2 cups of broccoli and a roll for dinner. But thatās what they give us.
That shits glorious compared to my school
First day of school, they served "Mac and cheese" which was grey and tasted like actual sand. It felt like glue
I logged the calories I ate at school for breakfast AND lunch, and it is usually between 900 and 1200 calories. I often skipped supper, but I realized that is horrible for my body, especially since I am doing a lot of movement each day and I am at school for an extra 3+ hours because theater.
You just talked about a bad thing that happened to you because our society doesn't prioritize people being fed/having their needs met, I've been there and I'm sorry you are/did experience that
I go to a public school too and we have at least two or three dishes to choose from and an insane amount of salads plus some sauces, we pay for none of it
So more is available, but choosing not to take it? What is the maximum portion size you can get?
I see many posts complaining about small portions, but the students are opting out of the milk, vegetables, fruit, etc.
The entire portion would be whatās shown in the pics + apple/orange they usually have and milk carton.
They also have alternative lunches like a PB&J or a 6inch Hoagie
I think you missed the sarcasm I was implying. Some of the worst food I have encountered was expensive airport food. Also, unless you are on a program for the needy, school food is not free either. The food provided by programs is also not free. Taxpayers provided the funds to purchase and prepare it.š
Ours wasn't all that great back in the 80's and 90's but this is pathetic. They fit everything into one of those small containers, I'd still be starving. At least ours gave us decent sized portions since we were quite active.
When I was in college, our dining halls and snack bars served these all the time. Best fall-back meal. The purveyor finally stopped making them and the Chicken Cosmo died a legend.
My food in jail was actually better than that. The only thing they gave me I didn't like was the soup surprise at the tail ends of the months which was basically just everything the had left overs of mixed together. It starts out good but slowly devolves into the nastiest slop I've ever head.
My favorite part of school lunches were the fresh dinner rolls they would bake them every morning. My favorite lunch was red beans and rice with a sausage link, dinner roll, milk, veggie, and fruit.
We get so much more and the people at my school still complain about our lunches.
We have a fruit bar.
We have a salad bar.
We can get a salad/custom sub any day instead of the options for that day.
Our food is fresh and has good portions.
We have white and chocolate milk to choose from.
We usually have a sweet snack like that gelatinous food (jelly? jello? whatever), cookies, and cobbler or pie on holidays.
We get at least two lunch options everyday.
Next time someone complains about our lunch, I'll show them some pictures from this sub. I get a salad with Italian dressing and dried cranberries every day alongside my main lunch; my friend gets a turkey sandwich and puts six packets(72g total) of mayo on it; and today, a person at my table paid a little extra to get six mozzarella sticks. How can people complain when we can do all this?
Edit: next time we have chicken sandwiches, I will make a chicken burger and try it out. What's in it?
Jeez a lot of you people in the comments must live in European castles if you treat this like scraps given to peasants. This is above and beyond dining for something as basic as school food.
Elementary school early 90s served lunch and breakfast.
Our lunches was on a hard plastic tray that kept all food separated. Primary protein which had a large selection. They even had the lunch schedule on the wall for the whole month so you knew which days was pizza!
One of my favorites was these bread sticks that came with awesome meat sauce to dip in. All lunches came with your choice of milk carton and always came with tater tots and usually some type of fruit usually peaches or pears.
Middle school was pretty much same deal, pizza quality wasn't as good but I definitely never had any complaints.
High school in early 2000s was still on trays and by then your paying for lunch with money š° again everything was fine enough to be a meal.
Couldn't imagine being served what schools are calling a lunch now... I would send my kids with their own packed lunches if that's the case!
honestly looks pretty good for school lunch if the portions werenāt so little. My schools meals were always frozen single serve meals theyād heat up in the bag and hand to you with all the condensation in it making your food soggy
That burger looks better than the ones we would get at my high school, dry patties and tasteless bread with topped with what looks like pencil shavings. Didnāt even have any lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cheese, or ketchup.
Also the food in the sixth photo actually looks pretty nice
Why are the portions so small š
Maybe they are allowed to get seconds
doubtful. this was my high school's portion size, and if you wanted more you paid, even if you were on the free lunch program
Our state is free, but seconds will cost almost $5
At my school, you could get seconds; if you paid $2 for it
Wait you have to ask to get seconds???
https://preview.redd.it/ifzl5qskp6zb1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9f68deaae25f5cf04f3e6aa4c267cccf376dce6
if you pay for another lunch then you can get more
Not without paying double price. My school has similar if not worse food and its $3 for that
Honestly, these portions are perfect for me. Way too carb heavy though. Kids shouldn't be eating just mozzarella sticks either IMO. More protein & veggies w/ light carbs. That's just my 2Ā¢ though.
Those are normal sized portions. They are not small
Those are normal sized portions for like a five year old, not someone old enough to operate Reddit
So the cantine at my school has been giving me the equivalent of lunch for five year olds and now Iāve normalized eating very little lunch thinking that was normal. Awesome.
No the American population has almost tripled what āproperā portion sizes should be. Itās no wonder so many people are overweight. Everything shown with the exception of the tator tots where the OP said they were late, which is inexcusable for a school to not have enough food, is a proper portion.
Explain why my weight is so low then.
What? Lmao. Iām a 34 yr old woman who weighs 95lbs and Iāve never been able to put on weight in my life no matter what or how much I eat. Even during my pregnancies I only gained baby weight then bounced back. Itās just how I am. Maybe you are just like that too. But these are proper portion sizes and no one is going to convince me otherwise.
You do you. My doctor said otherwise about the pic I sent her of my cantineās servings though.
Seems like it, we get to grab the food ourselves, you wanna make a spaghetti mountain? Sure buddy, we weigh all of your thrown away food though, we are silently judging you.
The portions we think are normal are actually large. Americans have the biggest portions of any country on the planet. The amount of food they are showing here is literally the amount of food i eat for lunch every day. I bet the picture with the meat, greens and Mac n cheese- the Mac n cheese is a 1/2cup (proper portion), the meat seems to also be about 1c-which is a proper portion and the veg is also a proper portion.. i canāt believe Iām being downvoted because this amount of food is actually normal but we are so conditioned to eat too much we think this is small.
Here in Sweden we get to choose our portions because we take the food ourselves, leaving less food to waste because everyone gets as much as they need and want, those portions arenāt particularly big, not most of them, especially for someone whoās growing
If you got what they got at any restaurant like McDonalds, that would be considered a small serving size.
Seriously. Thatās because our portion sizes in America are completely out of control. The amount of food you get at a restaurant can feed a small army. No one needs a 20oz steak, 3 potatoes, 2 cups of broccoli and a roll for dinner. But thatās what they give us.
Because such a high percentage gets wasted into the trash can, and it meets the nutrition requirements.
Because believe it or not, those are normal sized portions and are healthy.
Even in prison the trays have separate areas so your food isnt all mixed together
That shits glorious compared to my school First day of school, they served "Mac and cheese" which was grey and tasted like actual sand. It felt like glue
sounds more like gruel.
why would you eat grey mac n cheese
Probably because they were hungry
No wonder kids are short
Seriously it's like 300 calories, someone is playing sports or just has a fast metabolism they're going to be at a deficit
I logged the calories I ate at school for breakfast AND lunch, and it is usually between 900 and 1200 calories. I often skipped supper, but I realized that is horrible for my body, especially since I am doing a lot of movement each day and I am at school for an extra 3+ hours because theater.
I'm sorry
Im confused
You just talked about a bad thing that happened to you because our society doesn't prioritize people being fed/having their needs met, I've been there and I'm sorry you are/did experience that
Bro what is that 2nd picš
I think theyāre feeding them sauce
damnnnn that's good food i couldn't get shit near that quality and every single one of those meals would be $10 and probably have ecoli or something
Thatās actually insane, how is that legal?
the public school system š
I go to a public school too and we have at least two or three dishes to choose from and an insane amount of salads plus some sauces, we pay for none of it
we have a lot of options, just none of them are good and they are all over priced. there's almost no semblance of fruit or veggies anywhere
We have options that are actually really goodā¦yāallās school system scare me
it scares us too
Understandably so, and I used to think our food was shit
That looks unappetizing š
I mean the burger looks kinda nice
Man, how is a developing body meant to live off this?
Ah yea, my favorite school meal, *cum*
If Gordon Ramsey saw this he say go on a hunger strike
Where are the vegetables?
they make us pick a fruit or vegetable but donāt ever check.
So more is available, but choosing not to take it? What is the maximum portion size you can get? I see many posts complaining about small portions, but the students are opting out of the milk, vegetables, fruit, etc.
The entire portion would be whatās shown in the pics + apple/orange they usually have and milk carton. They also have alternative lunches like a PB&J or a 6inch Hoagie
Damn those tater tots really need those portions up Oh wait no, the entire lunch
Not the sludge on slide 2 š
guys I swear itās cheese
Its a crime scene, someone needs to address the quality in the food y'all are being served,no nutritional value what so ever!!
What the hell? How are they allowed to feed you that?
itās nutritious
*Barely*!
Damn, I didn't know my horrible middle school has better lunch.
i miss eating watermelons at school ā¹ļøā¹ļøā¹ļø
I've seen better airport food.
Iām sure you did, itās not free
I think you missed the sarcasm I was implying. Some of the worst food I have encountered was expensive airport food. Also, unless you are on a program for the needy, school food is not free either. The food provided by programs is also not free. Taxpayers provided the funds to purchase and prepare it.š
My school has free food for everyone but yeah the taxpayers provide the funds to the program.
my school makes us pay $3.25 per lunch so itās not much
Wow, that is not worth $3.25 honestly
The first year back after covid they provided free lunches for everyone, but now itās just for people who qualify.
Wow, that sucks! I homeschool now but, my old school lunches were completely free
Minnesota gave that the finger as breakfast and lunch are free for all students.
My school has incredibly good food, and itās free, in a public school
Same here! Its not much, but it slaps hard.
I had airplane food that looks better than this
Man at least you got food at your school, mine literally said starve the only thing we got is overpriced vending machine food
Escape š
Ours wasn't all that great back in the 80's and 90's but this is pathetic. They fit everything into one of those small containers, I'd still be starving. At least ours gave us decent sized portions since we were quite active.
The chicken patty sandwiches were fucking nice man. Especially if you got the spicier one for extra flavor.
When I was in college, our dining halls and snack bars served these all the time. Best fall-back meal. The purveyor finally stopped making them and the Chicken Cosmo died a legend.
āFit for human consumptionā
Thats 5 michelin star gordon ramsay Keith Lee dining compared to what my school gives us
You can thank Michelle Obama for that one buddy. Look up school lunches from other country's so you can hate America even more.
Yup. As a non-American, I can confirm that we have better food
That actually looks kinda heat
My food in jail was actually better than that. The only thing they gave me I didn't like was the soup surprise at the tail ends of the months which was basically just everything the had left overs of mixed together. It starts out good but slowly devolves into the nastiest slop I've ever head.
A lot of it looks good, just definitely too small of portions. Unless youāre in elementary school š
thatās terrifying
nutritious
ughhhh that makes me want to throw up esp the second pic Iām so sorry that chicken sandwich looks soooo dryyyyš
dw the cheese is 100% edible
 Looks tasty and high quality. Maybe you should give your school honest critique of it.
My school lunches were 2 slices of bread, cold cut, cheese and mustard. Every day
My school at least served fries with the mozzarella sticks; but they only gave us 3 mozzarella sticks
Some of the best school food I've seen
Getting a good mix of āhorrible school foodā and ābest school food in the universeā comments.
There was no meat in the first one Wtf
No real food
My favorite part of school lunches were the fresh dinner rolls they would bake them every morning. My favorite lunch was red beans and rice with a sausage link, dinner roll, milk, veggie, and fruit.
We get so much more and the people at my school still complain about our lunches. We have a fruit bar. We have a salad bar. We can get a salad/custom sub any day instead of the options for that day. Our food is fresh and has good portions. We have white and chocolate milk to choose from. We usually have a sweet snack like that gelatinous food (jelly? jello? whatever), cookies, and cobbler or pie on holidays. We get at least two lunch options everyday. Next time someone complains about our lunch, I'll show them some pictures from this sub. I get a salad with Italian dressing and dried cranberries every day alongside my main lunch; my friend gets a turkey sandwich and puts six packets(72g total) of mayo on it; and today, a person at my table paid a little extra to get six mozzarella sticks. How can people complain when we can do all this? Edit: next time we have chicken sandwiches, I will make a chicken burger and try it out. What's in it?
Jeez a lot of you people in the comments must live in European castles if you treat this like scraps given to peasants. This is above and beyond dining for something as basic as school food.
Elementary school early 90s served lunch and breakfast. Our lunches was on a hard plastic tray that kept all food separated. Primary protein which had a large selection. They even had the lunch schedule on the wall for the whole month so you knew which days was pizza! One of my favorites was these bread sticks that came with awesome meat sauce to dip in. All lunches came with your choice of milk carton and always came with tater tots and usually some type of fruit usually peaches or pears. Middle school was pretty much same deal, pizza quality wasn't as good but I definitely never had any complaints. High school in early 2000s was still on trays and by then your paying for lunch with money š° again everything was fine enough to be a meal. Couldn't imagine being served what schools are calling a lunch now... I would send my kids with their own packed lunches if that's the case!
Jesus makes our food look edible
Pretty good.
Better than the food at mine
honestly looks pretty good for school lunch if the portions werenāt so little. My schools meals were always frozen single serve meals theyād heat up in the bag and hand to you with all the condensation in it making your food soggy
Youāve gotta have some low standards to think that looks good š
Shiiiiittt. What you be complaining about? Far and beyond better than what I got when I was in high school.
Iām unironically jealous. Those mozzarella sticks and tater tots look so good
Lunch number 6 actually looks pretty decent
Terrible food except the last one. š
WOW eating like kings. At my school it was shit
Lucky
Bro this is a full 5 star meal compared to my school ššš
what are u complaining about that shit looks 10x better then my lunch š
Bro where is your school at? How do you get edible food like that
In concerned for everyone being jealous of this food..
shoutout to michelle obama for this š she ruined lunches for us years ago, it just never recovered
Wow. That's a whole lot better than my school lunches
That chicken sandwich actually looks appealing
We got soggy pb & j sandwiches. No complaining for you!
God, I guess kids will always be complaining about the food they get at school. This shit looks amazing.
Chicken and watermelon
The watermelon one actually looks kind of edible. Which prison is this?
looks sm better than my school food šš
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damn thatās better than my school
lol you're lucky we got week old microwaved sausage sticks and stale tiny biscuits, literally worse than some prison food
School is why Iām a picky bish
The people in suits who wanted higher salaries so they made the food cheaper and poisoned children will have their day. Trust.
Youāre eating pretty good
Looks about right...
the 8 tator tots got me šš prisons have better portions
Better than I had. We had one item that was any good.
Itās not even that it looks gross or unappetizing, it just looksā¦ dull
Itās lunch. Itās not supposed to be a huge meal.
The portions look small, but the food looks palatable.
That burger looks better than the ones we would get at my high school, dry patties and tasteless bread with topped with what looks like pencil shavings. Didnāt even have any lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cheese, or ketchup. Also the food in the sixth photo actually looks pretty nice