School Food

Over the past few years, the department of health and nutrition has been under fire for a few different reasons. There are so many questions as to why schools aren't offering very many healthy options for school lunches.
Most kids eat at school because they may not get meals at home if they live in poverty. Because of this, it's important for schools to offer good food with a lot of nutritional value to ensure that America's kids are getting enough nutrients to grow and excel in school.
Over the past few years, there have been new set laws and guidelines for nutrition in school lunches. I know that a few of them have some loopholes. A lot of them sound like a sorry excuse for nutrition. For example, the one that gets me the most is the fact that tomato sauce on pizza is counted as a vegetable as well as French fries. If these junk foods qualify for being nutritious, I feel like that's major issue.
I do applaud Michelle Obama's work because I have noticed that there are healthier snacks and more fresh fruits and vegetables offered than in the past. I remember in middle school when dessert was offered every single day and you could even pay extra to get a second serving of cookie dough. I used to buy chocolate chunk rice Krispy treats every day. I was still stick skinny but it wasn't an excuse to get junk food at lunch.
Even though there are healthier snacks offered, I have to go back to the topic of having absolute crap food as a main dish. How is popcorn chicken, nachos, corn dogs and pizza a healthy meal that will provide kids with proper nutrition and sustained energy? They're filled with oil, grease, and fat. Food is made in factories and froze to be shipped off to schools for the lunch ladies to pop into the oven. Food isn't actually made from scratch anymore. All school food is continence food. I feel like that is part of the problem.
There have been a lot of improvements in school lunches over the past few years, but we still have a long way to go as a country. (371)