School Lunch: Good or Gross

                      

This year has been full of changes at my high school. With a new principal you would think that there would be a lot of small changes, but really there has only been one really big one that I can notice right away. This change was school lunch. There is a lot more variety in the school lunch this year. In the past there has a lot of variety with all the different stations but this year the main line has drastically changed. Such as last week at school, on each day there was food from a different place in the country. Such as there was waffles and chicken day, Hawaiian Chicken and Rice day, and Philly Cheese Steak day.

I’m definitely not saying that these are the best meals I have ever had in my life, but I’m saying that I like the effort to make the choices different and unique. I personally think that none of the school food is good because frankly its school food, but some days are better than others. Some of the popular food choices are chicken strips, turkey gravy, and bow tie pasta, although the most popular by far is the potato bowl. Potato bowl comes with a scoop of mashed potatoes, gravy, and popcorn chicken. I feel like this meal however has gotten worse from last year because the gravy now is really thin and the chicken just doesn’t have a lot of flavor. I do like however how the school is trying to get us to be healthy by giving us healthy alternatives and fruits and vegetables, but I hate how they took away dessert a few years ago. We used to receive either cake, or cookie dough, or some kind of delicious dessert item. Now the closest thing we get is flavored ice, which happens once in a blue moon.

The other thing that I hate about school lunch is how expensive it is. For just one lunch from the main line it is close to three dollars. If you want something else like burger basket, pizza, chicken patty, or pasta it is close to the same amount of money but you get far less food. This is a big problem because growing high school students, especially the guys need a lot of food to satisfy their hunger. Overall I don’t think that the food is wonderful, but it is gradually getting better, and hopefully we will eventually get better food. 

Here is a link to the school lunches,check it out and be the judge too!