National School Lunch Week

 This year I'm posting the interesting weeks throughout the year.  This week happens to be National School Lunch Week.

School lunches have been available since 1946.  This week focuses on healthy food choices, balanced diets and portion sizes.  Most cafeteria staff know the children and their eating habits.  They take great pride in their work and strive to put out the best meals with the resources they are provided to them.

Back when I was in elementary school (the stone ages), the cafeteria staff actually made the lunches right there in the lunchroom.  The lunches were homemade, and some were pretty tasty.  I did change schools and tried the hot lunches there and found them to be quite bland.  They were brought in from an outside source and had absolutely no flavor.  Today the food provided by the school is brought in from an outside source and, according to my children, awful.  (They are food snobs.  The majority of the meals they have eaten growing up have been homemade)

How to observe #SchoolLunchWeek

Visit your school's cafeteria and learn about the lunches that are available.

What were the school lunches like when you were in school?  Did you buy hot lunch often or brown bag it?