The Importance Of School Lunches In Public Schools

School lunches are terrible. The servings are too small, there is little variety in food choices, and the food smells raunchy. School lunches are low quality food students are forced to eat every day. Looking at school lunches the first thing I notice is how small the portions are. I have seen kids eating in class, right after lunch. When the teacher asked the student why they are eating the answer is usually “I ate lunch, but I am still hungry.” A slice of pizza and a spoonful of corn might satisfy a tiny freshmen but not a bigger kid or an athlete. I have noticed that all of the athletes I know bring their own lunch, and the lunch they bring is bigger than the school lunch portions. Weighing 140 pounds I know I need to eat more than some of the small students. The lunches lack in diversity. Buffalo High School has about ten lunches that are served all year.

The smell coming from the cafeteria is sometimes close to the smell of cat vomit, and sometimes the smell is like a hoarder’s house. On the way to Anatomy class junior year I watched Kayla Mason run into the room and throw up. The smell of the spaghetti was worse than the smell of the preserved cats. Another time I observed a freshmen wrinkle his nose at a carton of milk, and when he bent down to take a drink he gagged before the milk even made it to his mouth. Mr. Wood had also seen the kid and asked to see the milk carton. It had expired eight days ago. The milk carton made the whole cafeteria reek of rotten milk. Food should not make you sick just by the smell alone, but the school lunches do more often than I thought possible. The worst experience I had with the smell of cafeteria food was when chili dogs were being served. The meal smelt fine until I noticed the cheese on the side of my tray was moldy. I bet down to smell it, and it smelt like a house’s basement after hurricane