Most hated the meals they served..

I LOVED THEM!!!!!!!!

Heres the meals i loved in the 70s,80s when in school

Pizza,Hamburgers (Oh my,the best),Fish Sticks (Dont like too much fish but i liked those)

I always got a salad with my lunch and sometimes some fruit and MAN WAS IT GOOD!!!!!

Im glad im not in school anymore,the way they have changed food so much over the years,EVERYTHING PROBABLY TASTES LIKE CRAP NOW!!!!!!!

(I would do anything to have a hamburger from my school days!!!!)

In elementary school I never went to a school with great food. It was edible though, and free since we were poor enough. In middle school the food was very good. I never went to high school, and now that I'm in college... The food pretty much sucks. It's mostly cheap but the (relatively) good tasting things are overpriced. I generally bring food from home in my back pack. Like today I have a piece of pizza, goldfish crackers, an apple, and some other crackers, and a bottle of water to drink.

When I started school I was in a district that went only to grade six. After that students went to a neighboring school district. We didn't have a lunch room or a kitchen so every day at lunchtime tables were placed in the hall and the same lunch was server, five days a week, every week of the school year, tomato rice soup served out of big, military type containers and peanut butter/no jelly on whole wheat bread. That went on for four years until additional schools were built that went to twelfth grade.

Then lunches improved dramatically. We had shepherd's pie, chow mein, roast beef with mashed potatoes and vegetables, roast chicken, all freshly made. In addition we had freshly made desserts like jello with whipped cream or pudding, cake or pie and there was always ice cream.

Food in the army was great, giant breakfast consisting of fried eggs, scrambled eggs, white toast, rye toast, fried potatoes, oatmeal, cold cereal, pancakes, bacon every morning. About three mornings a week there was also SOS, my personal favorite. That was chipped beef in a white gravy. At my kaserne it was served over freshly baked biscuits rather than toast. There was also all the milk, juice and coffee you cared to drink.

Lunches and dinners were also freshly prepared from the finest ingredients with all you could eat. Anyone who complains about military food never ate at my mess hall.

In college food was okay but nothing to write home about. At my first college the food was better, roast beef, pork chops, potatoes, fresh veggies and fruits plus pretty good desserts for dinner and a choice of eggs one day, waffles or pancakes another with either bacon or sausage and sometimes fried potatoes for breakfast. There were always sandwiches available if you didn't like the lunches that were being served. You usually had at least two choices for lunch or dinner.

At my second college the meals were still pretty good but not quite as good as at the first one.

When I began teaching I ate what the kids ate. At first it was great, the same type food I had when I was a student in the same district. Then, suddenly the quality went down, something to do with getting the food from government surplus. Lot's of peanut butter, ersatz meat and starches. Instead of the big milk machines where you could get all the milk you wanted they now gave you a half pint container. We also went from real plates and silverware to trays and plastic ware.

When I became an administrator lunch was on my own. I either brought something from home that I heated in the microwave, sent out for something from the deli or went out with co-workers to one of the local chinese restaurants or to Bennigan's or some place like that.

Back in the day, my Grandma ran the Lew Wallace High School cafeteria as well as being a Home-Ec and Latin teacher.

These were the days when school cafeterias were independant of government funds and either had to turn a profit or be shut down.

When Grandma took over, the eatery had for several years been running in the red and was on the verge of a shutdown. The food was poor, the kitchen a mess, the workers were slovenly.

Within a year, Grandma turned it around to a money-making enterprise that served good, wholesome food in a variety of dishes. Grandma knew what people liked to eat!
Lots of good meat, potatoes, breads, and of course, desserts.

Grandma did all the ordering, planned menus, balanced the books, scanned cookbooks for new recipes. This on top of her school teaching job and being a wife and mother.