Local Current Event: She ate 162 school lunches

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/21/nutrition.year.review/index.html?iref=allsearch

Mrs. Q works at an urban school in the midwest. Her mission was to eat the school lunches and then she would write about them on her blog and also take pictures of what the lunches looked like. This blog caused lots of controversies on what should really be on children's plates. Some experts wanted to argue that not all kids get meals like these in schools, since this school in particular was an inner-city school where most of the children received free/ reduced priced lunches. Mrs. Q said they were starting to make small healthy changes to their lunches and she plans to write a book about her experience. I also think it is very important what children are getting in school today, good food choices would not only make them healthier, but it would also help their performance in school. I think it's sad that some students don't even have the choice to eat healthy because of budget cuts and low income in families. If they don't receive healthy food at home or in school where will they ever learn the healthy eating habits that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. Obviously something needs to be done about school lunches, I think it's always a working progress, but hopefully some day it won't be a problem in schools.