The Cost of Healthy School Lunches Essay

School lunches need a change All around the world, students are starving in school. They don’t get enough. They hate the food and so do I. School lunches are a big problem. It really isn’t the schools problem either, It's the restrictions and 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…

The term “school lunch,” has had a negative connotation ever since I can remember. There’s much more to school lunch than gourmet salads or mystery meat. All over the United States schools serve lunch to a variety of different students, with different backgrounds, age groups and income. Just in one school the systematic arrangement of the lunch ladies and the policies set in place are just tiny specs of a much larger picture. The fact of the matter is, as children are developing they are being…

(Barbosa Gonçalves, Thimoteo da Cunha, Stedefeldt, & de Rosso, 2015). Receiving a healthy and wholesome nutrition is vital to ones education, productivity levels, and overall well-being. It is imperative that our schools provide only the most nutritional school lunches and snacks for our students to ensure that their education is not jeopardized by insufficient nutrients. By providing adequate nutrients to students at schools, limitations will be placed on obesity, failure, depression,…

School lunches should be provided by the government Nowadays in Australia lunch is provided by parents or children will purchase lunch at the canteen,but as a parent I strongly advocate the belief that school lunches should be provided by the government. Ever since I 've came to Australia and sent 3 children through school I 've noticed some major concerns that I have with the lunch provided or food sold within the canteen.Working in a canteen I have experienced the variety of food distributed…

lunch at school everyday and consume about 30% to 50% of their daily calories while at school. This means that 32 million kids are greatly influenced by what schools have to offer for food options. What can we conclude from these facts? The foods that kids eat in school have a huge impacts on their lives. However, there is a problem. The snacks and lunches that children are consuming at school are junky and inadequate. Many kids are facing the effects of these unhealthy and non nutritious school…

Funding for the school on the case that students become healthy and become prosperous successful human beings. These are claims that are made by government officials to promote the benefits of the school lunch program. The school lunch program is designed to help improve the health and well being of students, while unintentionally sacrificing on the taste and attractiveness of the given meals. School lunch regulations was created by the USDA to improve the health in americas schools. The USDA…

The National School Lunch Program, is a federal meal program making low cost or free school lunches possible in public schools around the country. The public schools receive a budget to purchase food for their students, however, they choose to subside the budget on low-cost ingredients, which result in food containing mostly processed food. I believe with the knowledge and understanding about the consequences of feeding our children processed food, we have a responsibility to provide our next…

School lunches Every school is different, but they all have one thing in common: School lunches. Whether it’s a slice of pizza or a plate of chicken nuggets, they all serve school lunch. Usually, the food is in acceptable taste conditions for picky eaters, but when the choices of what the lunch ladies serve is limited there’s a problem. Most kids just throw away their lunch. When Michelle Obama put a limit on school food, more lunches were being thrown into the trash because students simply…

“The USDA says 1 million fewer students nationwide are eating federal school lunches…”(1M).The nutritional standards enacted by congress in 2012 were established to promote healthy food choices that included all the major food groups. The intent was also to decrease calories in order to combat the rise of obesity in children. Within the guidelines, students in grades 9-12, for example would have a lunch tray that was”... 750-850 calories, which contained less than ten percent saturated fats,…

It is no secret that America is in an obesity epidemic. The majority of public schools are only making this problem worse. The school lunches that are provided to students are unhealthy, lacking in taste and quality, and are extremely underwhelming. This isn’t only a problem with lunches, the food in the vending machines is also very unhealthy. The lunches also do not cater in the slightest to children with food allergies or restrictions such as vegetarian or vegan. America is failing their…