My parents always sent me to school with money for school lunches.  My mom was always working, and realistically speaking it would have been a bad story if she hadn’t, even when we were young.  But this meant that she really didn’t pack the nice little homemade lunches a lot, and that was fine.  But if you consider the facts, school lunches are now required to have certain nutritional requirements.  That is great, and they pay somebody hundreds of thousands of dollars each year just to figure that out.  The problem is that they are lacking. 

I mean if you consider the fact that since this institution has been in place, kids have been able to get a box full of fries as their entire lunch or even a burger and fries, and that apparently fulfills the nutritional requirements, you have to wonder what these nutritional requirements are!  I mean it’s one thing for fast food restaurants like McDonalds to cater to kids and advertise towards them.  But when they are actually putting little things in schools for school lunch, I really have to wonder what the nutritional requirements are, and people wonder why so many Americans are reaching new levels of obesity.  School lunches are said to be a substantial part of the average school age kid’s diet, and quite frankly well they don’t really take great care in that fact.