#school cafeterias

so basically let me get this straight.

school cafeteria food has a reputation for being horrible almost everywhere. sure, there’s the lucky excpetions, but most schools provide their students with shitty non-nourishing foods that only damage their health.

the first problem is is that this is a massive waste of resources that if put to good use, could actually be good and edible, however the process the food goes through and the circumstances it’s served at severly damage their quality and general goodness. In my school, people often cannot finish their food because they:

don’t have enough time (most days we only have fifteen minutes to eat - this includes pushing your way to the cafeteria and standing in line)

or straight up cannot/don’t eat the food because it is, to put it simply, disgusting

serving the same dish four times in one month is not okay. wasting money and resources and things that aren’t even gonna be used is not okay.

quality of food, nourishment and other factors that come from eating normal meals effect a lot of things including our body but also mind’s health. these things are not to be taken lightly.

they say they cut the time because they wanna make more time for education or to shorten lines, well maybe if schools actually put the resources into making spaces that fit the amount of students, it wouldn’t be as difficult to get your food.

and the more study time argument is just stupid. since when is learning about things eighty percent of which we aren’t even going to use ever again for the rest of our lives more important than the health of not only the future generation but also the earth?

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TORONTO | The Latest: Sri Lanka native ID'd as van attack victim

TORONTO (AP) — The latest on a van attack in Toronto which killed 10 people and injured 14 (all times local): 12:30 p.m.

A Buddhist temple in Toronto has identified one of the victims of Monday’s van attack as Renuka Amarasinghe (am-uh-ruh-SEEN’-yuh).

Mahavihara Buddhist Meditation Centre chief monk Ahangama Rathanasiri Thero (AN’-guh-mah Rah-than-ah-SEER’-ah THEER’-oh) says Amarasinghe was a Canadian citizen who came to the country from Horana, Sri Lanka. She was 45 and lived with her 7-year-old son.

Amarasinghe worked at school cafeterias and came to the temple frequently, sometimes helping arrange religious ceremonies. Friend Thilina Pelendage says she was known for her humorous nature and for never forgetting people’s birthdays.

Pelendage says another family in Toronto’s Sri Lankan community with whom Amarasinghe once lived plans to care for her son and that she had no other family in Toronto.

The temple will make funeral arrangements.

Toronto police say the 10 people killed and 14 injured in the attack were “predominantly” women.

the food in the cafeteria of the university center is amazing. I don’t really have a meal plan and I still eat there. The rest of it is sub par. 

What the hell is (Thunder Thighs) Michelle Obama and the government doing in school cafeterias...?

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With new federal guidelines dictating what is served at school cafeterias during lunch time, school districts all over the country have reworked their menus to accommodate the new rules.  The changes include serving more whole grains, daily doses of fruits and vegetables, less sugar and salt, and only low- or non-fat milk.

For the first time, school lunches must have age-aligned calorie maximums, capping the amount of calories high school students eat to around 850 calories.  The new restrictions all come from the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and are funded by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 – legislation promoted by Michelle Obama.

While the changes may seem like a step in a healthier direction, not all students are finding them so tasty.  On Monday, about 70 percent of the 830 students at Mukwonago High School in Wisconsin who typically buy their lunch boycotted the school’s cafeteria, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported.  The high schoolers were joined by middle schoolers in the district, reducing the number of lunches sold by half.

WITS Remains in School Cafeterias

After Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, and other lawmakers urged the Education Department to figure out a way to keep Wellness in the Schools or WITS (a well-regarded culinary organization that recruits professional chefs to prepare school lunches) involved in devising and cooking meals, the department decided to allow the program to continue.

Because a new, more stringent set of federal nutritional standards is set to take effect this fall, education officials said earlier this month that WITS could not create school meals because it could not ensure that all meals would meet the new rules, potentially costing the city some federal school lunch funding.

 “We are working in collaboration with WITS on an alternative menu that will also meet the new U.S.D.A. regulations,” said Erin Hughes, a department spokeswoman. “The department always aims to work with our partners, and we value having an organization like WITS in our schools.”

 “We are very excited to be continuing our partnership with the Department of Education,” executive director and founder of WITS, Nancy Easton, said.