With Kids Saying 'Yuck,' Some US Schools Quit Healthy-Lunch Program

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6. My wife spent 33 years working as a cook, first at an emergency shelter for kids

and then at a charter school. She spent more time complying with all the USDA regs and paperwork on the Breakfast and Lunch program than anything else. She used the same ingredients that the regular schools used and all the kids ate everything she cooked. But she was a damn fine cook. The ones that spent the day at the schools they went to would skip lunch at school and eat when they got back to the shelter because the cold leftovers tasted better.

The average school district hires people that can crank out high volume batches of cafeteria style food for minimum pay and they get waht they're paying for.