A Teacher Chronicles Her School-lunch Diet

by Katherine Gustafson · 2010-01-18 05:30:00 -0800
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We hear tell that school lunches are bad - so bad, in fact that you might do better eating at McDonald's.

Now we have the graphic evidence to prove it. A teacher in Illinois, a certain "Mrs. Q," has decided to see for herself what it feels like to eat the same diet her students do.

At "Fed Up: School Lunch Project," she's blogging about it, posting photos of every lunch she eats and describing what it tastes like. Not surprisingly, it usually tastes bad. Her descriptions are amusingly straightforward. An example: "Today's menu: 'Salisbury' steak, bread, corn, milk, pineapple chunks. Not the best, but I ate the meat. It's called hunger."

The idea grew out of the reflection that, as she puts it, "It's very challenging to teach students when they are eating school lunches that don't give them the nutrition they need and deserve." After eating such a lousy diet at lunchtime - "oftentimes," she says, "what is served barely passes muster as something edible" - her students have a hard time paying attention. Stay tuned to see if she does, too.

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Katherine Gustafson is a freelance writer and editor with a background in international nonprofit organizations.
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