AOL Health | Undercover School Lunch

March 15th, 2010

“She’s fed up. An Illinois teacher is eating school lunches for a year in solidarity with students she believes aren’t offered healthy options in the cafeteria.”

“The teacher, who refers to herself as Mrs. Q, told AOL Health that even airplane meals taste better than the ones in the school cafeteria and that she is eating them to prove a point. The children at her school come from low socioeconomic brackets, and she estimates that 98 percent of them eat hot lunches, mostly for free or at low cost. The meals, she said in an e-mail, “are overly processed and contain very little ‘real’ food,” such as fresh fruit.”

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