Lunch box

mandates they have to follow. It all starts with the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP. It’s a federally funded program that gives schools low-cost or even free, nutritionally balanced meals every day (National School Lunch Program). It limits the fat, salts, calories, etc... that can be provided in a serving (National School Lunch Program). Many students are starving in school. A lot of students are almost forced to bring a cold lunch, and that is not exactly healthier for them(School…

and little blue stools are lined up in the cafeteria like the blue lines on a piece of notebook paper. During my limited years of public elementary school, my first-grade brain would curiously observe my peers as they got their lunch, who would follow each other into the lunch line like sugar ants lining up to snatch up the food that they wanted. When they returned from their voyage, I would observe their meals and maybe compare theirs to mine. I would watch them sit down, pick at their food,…

Regular school is usually dull and boring, but not anymore! With this outdoor adventure, kids can get a great education in the perfect learning location! Now, Island High School is taking place on Okunoshima Island off the coast of Japan. The students enroll the year before to secure their spot on the breathtaking island. During their school year, students will obtain a wonderful education and do so while being surrounded by motivation. Students get to live on Okunoshima Island for a whole…

A 12 year prison sentence is a very serious topic. What type of crime would someone have to commit to obtain such punishment? No doubt, it would have to be something extremely serious. Similarly, students spend around 12 years stuck in school from the time they enter kindergarten to the time they graduate. This is not the only similarity between the two, though. In fact, the average prison and school share many similarities. These similarities include the unappetizing food, being stuck in a room…

nurtured, and well fed after eating Vanden High School's school lunch? Well, I’m sorry to break it to you, but it’s true. VHS school lunch needs a boost in portioning. Every day I find myself struggling to focus and concentrate due to the lack of sufficient amounts of food. I am positive that numerous other students have the same opinions on the matter. One school day I was feeling particularly hungry, so I made off to lunch and got what they were serving; sweet and sour chicken. Now, when…

woke up at about 8:30. I keep it next to me while I go over my class work and watch TV. It gets drank before my first class at 1:30. I always carry water with me to my classes, if I forget I stop by stars to buy one. Not often do I eat breakfast. For lunch I had a turkey sandwich on wheat, no cheese. For dinner I had some soup with a salad. I like cottage cheese with salad, so I skip dressing because that should hold it all together. I don’t like a dry salad. Wednesday, September 14th: Wake up…

Children in America are beginning to become overweight and schools are taking action. Yes, obesity is an issue all over America, however should schools feel obligated to change their students’ eating habits? Although the new school lunch system is extra nutritional some students do not receive enough calories, afterwards feel sluggish and more than anything schools are losing income and dropping out of this new program. This is most affecting high school students, athletes especially. They…

hot breakfast before a test, their scores will go up. (Mahoney, Taylor, Kanarek, & Samuel, 2005, p. 636) The United States offers free and reduced price breakfast and lunch to children that qualify based on a program started in 1946. President Truman understood the importance of feeding children when he signed the National School Lunch program into existence, (Gunderson, 2014) but it wasn't until 1966, that finally the importance of breakfast was also beginning to be understood. The School…

student sitting at the lunch table. She has carrots, broccoli, and spinach for her vegetables and for her meats she has pickle loaf, liver spread, and ham. High School lunches should have fast/junk food because high school students are old enough to make their decisions, fast/junk food is fun and tasty to eat, and it is an opportunity to have a decent meal. Good reasons for fast food being High Schools? First off there are advantages for having fast/junk food at lunch time in High schools.…

From what I have experienced in my community of Warren County, the breakfast and lunch provided by the schools are inadequate. These meals are often undersized, ill-prepared, or are non-existent. Though all Warren County schools students do receive free lunch, people still choose to pay for the prepackaged goods sold by the school to substitute the lunch offered. In the mornings, the breakfasts that I have seen have been continuously dismal. They are often small, sugary items such as Pop Tarts…