School Lunch Program Analysis

In the movie fed-up a young overweight girl talks about how challenging it is for her to loose weight by eating the school lunches, she stated that she didn’t feel like her school feed her healthy and nutritious meals. It would be very beneficial if Adams Central Pulled out of the government based school lunches. It could help children by giving them the “right” foods. Foods that are highly nutritious and tasty. First of all, these new guidelines are very hard for schools to follow, and is hard for the cafeteria workers while trying to plan lunches that the children will actually buy.
Grains that are contained in the school lunches have to have at least 51% of whole grain or wheat. This includes anything from cookies, to pastas (Duffy, 2014). The government is offering schools on the lunch program some healthy options, but it is still very challenging to find these whole grain products for a decent price and in large quantities (Wolfgang, 2014). 90% of schools stated that have have had occurrences with at least one problem while preforming in this program. Most of these schools had to tweak or change the guidelines one way or another in order to …show more content…
According to “Tossing The First Ladies Lunch” this program is hard to follow and very unpopular. And more students are starting to pack. The program is helping students to eat healthier and make better choices. It is very hard when schools are trying to make each lunch fit within the guidelines, and when they do a lot of this food just ends up getting wasted. Many of the kids are disliking the taste of the whole grain foods (Duffy, 2014). One freshman kid from Huntington North High School did not like them because they were whole grain (Duffy, 2014). Most of the grains served in the school lunches are whole grain, and the children aren’t enjoying them. If schools wanted to avoid the downsides of the school lunches they should pull out of this