Fed Up With Lunch

Posted on March 10, 2010

Maybe you’ve seen this and maybe you haven’t, but I wanted to pass this along. Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project is a blog by a teacher who is eating school lunch everyday. Read why she’s doing it and some other FAQs.

It’s pretty interesting to see the food that the schools serve and to see the comments this teacher makes. She is experiencing what the kids eat everyday during school lunch.

I don’t know much about elementary schools and their policies, but from what I’ve read and heard, recess is becoming a thing of the past. I bring this up because it was mentioned in the above FAQs. At this particular school, the kids have 20 mins for lunch and no recess.

When I was in elementary school (I’m 27, to give you a reference point) we had 3 recesses each day: a 15 min recess in the morning, a 40-50 min lunch/recess in the middle of the day, and a 15 min recess in the afternoon. That was awesome. I remember playing soccer, basketball, and even jumping rope sometimes. What is happening in today’s world?

I know it’s a complicated issue that I don’t really understand, but really? No recess for kids at school? That’s a shame.

Sorry about that tangent, but check out Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project. It’s pretty interesting.