Lunch Menu

The school’s lunch menu is far from a fancy meal, but it does just fine when you have been starving all morning. The lunch menu such offers items from muffins and side salads to full pizzas and breakfast meals. The lunch ladies have listened to the requests and feedback from parents and teachers quite a lot, and taken the advice to heart. Many changes have been made to the menu in the past four years that I have been here. I remember my freshman year that there was a soda machine where you served yourself. It was removed, through, after Mrs. Galbraith’s crusade to remove all carbonated soft drinks from our school. The pop was replaced with juices and other non carbonated drinks. This is believed to be healthier for the students, but is it? The fruit drinks we have in our lunch room and vending machine contain a lot more sugar than the soda we had in previous years. There is a choice for water, but most students do not want to pay a dollar and twenty-five cents for something as bland as water, so they buy the flavored drinks jam-packed with sugar. PowerAde is another drink option. It is a great drink after or during sporting events, but while sitting at school, it can be slightly unhealthy. All the carbohydrates within Powerade that gives energy to the body to be burned up while you are active is good; the key phrase however is, “while you are active.” While sitting in class, all those carbohydrates are just building up inside turning into fat.

The nutritional valued of food is another concern some parents have with our lunch services. We have a wide variety of different food from different categories of nutrition that students can purchase. Candy has been removed recently in the lunch room as an effort to boost the health standard of the available choices. There are, however, some snacks that students can buy if they want something sweet to eat. Chips, cookies, and sometimes pie are all available in small servings to make sure students do not overindulge in too many sweets. The main entrees are also carefully planned out with nutritional values in mind. We have fish sandwiches, vegetable lasagna, tomato soup, and sometimes corn and green beans. They are not such hot sellers as pizza or chicken fingers, but are there all the same. The entrees are all meals that any mother would be glad to serve to her children.
I think the school is doing a great job with handling lunch. The administration has listened carefully to parents, and made changes to its menu; and will listen to constructive criticism gladly.