Unhealthy School Lunches

Unhealthy school lunches contain a small variety of healthy foods. Slimy, half-cooked pizzas, burritos, as well as hamburgers are not seen as healthy among students. More than half the food goes to waste. The waste of the lunch food shows students are not really interested in the "greasy, slimy pizza or hamburgers" as Tremale Ratcliffe described them. More are interested in small variety of fruits being served. The variety is consisting from apples, pears, carrots and at times grapes. I believe that Pomona High School should serve healthier lunches in order to increase students health, decrease waste of food, and ultimately to stop spending money carelessly.

In the Ai-Insite website, the article “Unhealthy School Lunches Not making the Grade” clearly describes the issue with unhealthy school lunches. Foods have been processed as high in fat, sugar, and salt which have become part of the school lunches. Carolina Sandoval, a student at Pomona High School, even has said herself “I believe the school tries making the food look healthy but it really is not. I mean they have the fruits and salads but it should be a bigger variety.” Tremale Ratcliffe agrees with Carolina’s statements about unhealthy choices of lunch being served at school. Tremale believes having healthier food and eating healthier not only at home but as school would help not only him but his peers.

The food wasted more than half the time is also eaten more than half the time, by students who then feel tired and as if all their energy is one. When asking Carolina as to why she believes school lunches are a bigger problem with students, she sees it more as if the students do not like the food being served, it is a waste of money and food is thrown away when not eaten. She believes the solution lies within getting the school to serve a healthier variety of foods; it would give a better choice instead of the unhealthy, half-cooked food being served. When a healthier selection of food is served, the school would not longer have such a waste of food being thrown out.

The school has lunches being served to the students at Pomona High School, only to have the waste of money and food going down the drain. Almost every student either throws out the lunch or plays with their food. It should show the school when seeing the mess of the school lunches just left there on the ground that it is a waste of money, having so much go to waste when still paying for it all.

School lunches serve greasy, slimy, not well-cooked lunches. More than half the students throw out the food when seeing exactly what is being served to them. It becomes not only a waste of food, but as well money. Carolina and Tremale are both students attending Pomona High School, and when both looking at the varieties of foods. School lunches should be providing a wider variety of fruits and salads. The lunch itself should be healthier should be healthier and not so greasy, slimy or even half done. It will only cause the food to go straight to the trash.

           

By: Gabriela S. Cruz