<p>Your thoughts? Personally I bring my lunch from home because it saves money and its healthier.
:D</p>
<p>I buy fast food since it’s faster, cheaper, and better tasting than school lunch. In fact I had two Arby’s Roastburgers and a medium curly fries today for around $5.</p>
<p>Neither. Vending Machine.</p>
<p>(I’m addicted to M&M Pretzels…YUM)</p>
<p>I like our school lunches…I find the salad is pretty high quality! There’s always nice leafy green lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, grated cheese, and a variety of other things like fresh fruit, chickpeas, cottage cheese, homemade pasta salad, and homemade croutons. Yum!</p>
<p>I bring my lunch… Always. I would never touch the cafeteria food. It’s nasty. Whoever thought that it was a good idea to name a dish ‘chicken loaf’ and then try to serve it to kids is weird.</p>
<p>I get free lunch, so its actually more expensive to bring food from home. My qualm is not with the quality of lunch at my school, but rather the availability. The cafeteria runs out of food before I can buy lunch at least twice a week.</p>
<p>^^lol…We had “taco pie” the other day.
But we have plenty of other options every day besides the main meal, like pre-packaged salad, custom-made sandwiches, two different types of pizza, hamburgers, soup, some other stuff.
And for snacks/dessert we have soft pretzels, ice cream, chips, cookies, granola bars.</p>
<p>Yvette, foods are more deceiving than you think. Most restaurants you think are of “high quality” use crap foods. Likewise, even though your school probably boasts of “fresh ingredients,” the term “fresh” is really, really subjective. My cousin’s a head chef at a Marriott Hotel restaurant, and she told me even the ingredients they use over there could be a lot better.</p>
<p>Although considering that your school menu is much diverse than most, I’m sure it’s a lot better as well. But I’m assuming you go to like a top notch private school or something if your school actually offers y’all HOME MADE croutons and pasta salad.</p>
<p>Fortunately, I don’t need to worry about school lunch because I don’t have a lunch period. I only get to eat a granola bar or two between classes and before sports/clubs.</p>
<p>I wonder if there are any schools that actually serve gormet lunches, like a Lobster Meal or Filet Minion (ummm, I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.</p>
<p>^Maybe some wealthy prep schools. 
Actually, I qualify for free lunch, too, but I don’t take it. (My parents’ main form of income is through fosterparenting, and that doesn’t count as taxable income. Qualifying for free lunch is weird when your family actually makes about $80k/year. Oh well. I don’t take advantage of it, so…)</p>
<p>Home.</p>
<p>While I do eat cafeteria food some time, our cafeteria is in a completely different building and the lines are packed with stupid freshmen who can’t remember their ID numbers to pay for lunch since we’re on a digital system. Our school food is horrible, but sometimes it’s easier to pack one since I’m too cheap to take advantage of off campus options.</p>
<p>I normally pack one or wait to eat until I get home since I have to eat breakfast before school anyhow. Plus I can pack ten times healthier and better tasting than what I’ll ever get at school. For a school that boasts whole wheat noodles, our lunches are ****ty in the way of health. No balance. And the fruits are always under ripe or over ripe. The salad is all iceberg lettuce and the only dressing option is ranch. The burgers I’m sure aren’t meat, and aren’t a meat alternative. I don’t know what they are, but they scare me. And pizza gives me a headache for some reason so taking advantage of the domino or whatever brand of pizza we have now isn’t worth it to my head. Soo…</p>
<p>Our school has an open campus. I can go to Mc Donalds, In N Out, Burger King, Taco Bell, any where. That is if I get a ride…</p>
<p>Go off campus for lunch since the lunch at my school is ****.</p>
<p>I bring my lunch from home and eat it by myself in unused classrooms.</p>
<p>Bring lunch. The lines are so long and the food isn’t very good.</p>
<p>I have not brought a lunch since last school year. It’s just so convenient, damn it. The food’s alright, but not of amazing quality. Andd there’s only a mcdonald’s near our school and we have a very closed campus… bleh</p>
<p>^^ I second that. </p>
<p>Lunch food at my school is a hot, greasy mess. Standing in line takes up half a lunch period (25-30 minutes) and I always feel kinda ill after eating cheap school stuff.</p>
<p>I almost always bring my own lunch from home, but I have the cafeteria lunch occasionally. Our hot food is pretty typical, and we have the ordinary unhealthy items that rotate every week (pizza, pasta, burgers, french fries, chicken tenders, Mexican food, etc), along with the cold stuff like salads, pastas, and sandwiches. I think it’s funny how so many kids say the school food sucks, yet they blow $4-$5 each DAY on it. The food isn’t great, but it’s at least 50 times better than the lunch served at my middle school, and I have some personal favorites like cheese ravioli and chicken tenders.</p>
<p>I always buy lunch, which is anything from chicken sandwiches to mozzarella sticks to wraps. We have a closed campus so I can’t get fast food, and I’m too lazy to plan and pack lunch every day. Although school food isn’t that good it isn’t as bad as most people say it is. I mean, really, the food isn’t disgusting. It’s not something I’d eat at home but it’s not too far from it. (My parents are bad cooks though, which may have something to do with my scorn of picky eaters. :))</p>
<p>The food is awwwwwwful!
But unfortunately, I have to eat it because I simply don’t have time to make my own lunches. I ask my mom to make them for me on days I need to see a teacher during lunch or something like that, but I can’t expect that of her every day.</p>