Senators: Are schools starving kids in the name of reducing lunch calories?

[Igel]

13. And that's not a really old prohibition, I'm guessing.

Used to be fairly standard. Even when I was in school there were two lines: One for those getting a hot meal, and another for those who wanted something else--just milk, soda, ice-cream, chips.

I never bought my lunch, always brown-bagged it. Handy having a snack bar, not having to go through the main line with all the other kids just for a beverage or adjunct to whatever was in the brown bag.


Heck, one school I've seen not only has a snack bar in its cafeteria (with a couple of different lines--one for sandwiches and another for hot meals), it has a coffee house not far from the entrance.