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That pizza actually looks ok. The school I worked at in Texas served beef fingers with rice and low fat gravy every Monday. The things looked gross. The lunches look much better up here in the suburban Detroit district my daughter goes to but they're also a dollar more each.

I send my daughter with a lunch though. The school food is still crap that I don't want her eating on a weekly basis. Nachos and cheeze filled breadsticks and it's more food than she would eat. When she was in Kinder there was a point where she was only packing carrots with ranch and a milk because that's all she wanted. She also packed two snacks (and sometimes breakfast) that she ate at school so she just wasn't hungry at lunch. I told her she needed to pack more than just carrots because they'd think I was starving her but all she ate was the carrots.

Kids are fat because they eat too much, not because they eat the wrong things or even don't exercise enough (although those two things do contribute to overall health). If you take a thin kid and a heavy kid to lunch and feed them the same thing the thin kid will eat less and self regulate better. Kids are eating adult servings from the time they're pre-schoolers and many are overfed from birth. We live in a society that encourages little kids to be fed constantly. Take a kid to soccer, they get a snack. Take them to church, they get a snack. Take them to preschool and they get a snack (which is a cupcake half of the time because of someones birthday) those snacks are generally juice (cup o sugar) and a bag of crackers or chips or cookies which combined often equal the amount of calories. Then the kids are taken home and fed an adult sized meal. --- While snacking and small meals are fine, that's only when those snacks are healthy and combined with smaller portions at regular meals.

But those picky eaters are eating adult sized servings. And yes, they're not eating any fruits or vegetables so they're eating the wrong things.