School lunches in most educational facilities in this country are abysmal. Though most schools aim to provide healthy lunches, the guidelines and the budgets set forth are simply awful.
Congress loves to muck with school lunch rules. Last year, Congress prohibited the USDA from limiting potatoes and French fries and allowed school lunchrooms to continue counting tomato paste on pizza as a vegetable.
The school lunch rules apply to federally subsidized lunches served to low-income children. Those meals have always been subject to nutritional guidelines because they are partially paid for by the federal government, but the new rules put broader restrictions on what could be served as childhood obesity rates have skyrocketed.
