# Are school lunches a problem? If so, what can we do to fix it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 5, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-school-lunches-a-problem-if-so-what-can-we-do-to-fix-it/535048 "2010-04-05T17:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-school-lunches-a-problem-if-so-what-can-we-do-to-fix-it/535048/21 "2010-04-06T13:27:45Z")
These are [the guidelines](http://www.wcpss.net/child-nutrition/) my child’s school system uses. I pack his lunch 4 times a week and he’s allowed to buy lunch on Fridays (probably the worst choice of the week - hot dogs). I think they do a much better job in the school cafeterias than they did when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-school-lunches-a-problem-if-so-what-can-we-do-to-fix-it/535048/22 "2010-04-06T15:43:19Z")
From a blog I found recently via Yahoo!, [Fed Up with Lunch](http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/), I get the feeling that some lunches really are a problem and some are not. The content is much more in the comments than the blog itself, and I cannot keep up with them, so I haven’t read it in awhile, but there’s definitely indications in those comments (and in the blog itself) that some lunches are terrible, both taste-wise and nutritionally, and some schools get it right. Thanks for the eGullet link, **Shalmanese**. That was interesting reading! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-school-lunches-a-problem-if-so-what-can-we-do-to-fix-it/535048.md?page=1)