School lunch prices are they fair?

I have no idea what the prices are in schools anymore but when I went to school back a long time ago it was less then two dollars maybe two dollars I dont remember. But college food seems pretty fair at least the food is freshed or cooked at least in my school it is.

Well when I was younger they had pretty good food in my school,they ordered lttle ceasers, and cooked pretty good lunches too, and that wasn't too long ago. I think $2.50 is pretty fair for a school lunch, they also now a days, you can apply for free or reduced lunch if your having financial problems at the time. But I guess some schools are different for others. Maybe you should adress that PTA.

I don't know how much my old school charged for lunches but I think it was more than $2.50. Our food was actually decent. They had the lunch of the day, a mini salad bar/sandwhiches (which were ok), and then cheeseburgers/fries. The cheeseburgers and fries were the most popular at our public high school. I do think that the food is overpriced though.

Wow! $2.50 is really high for a school lunch I think. My daughter is in 2nd grade and the cost of her lunch is $1.70. I think it was 5 or 10 cents less. Which really isn't that bad, considering that when I was in school 25 years ago lunch was a little over a dollar. The price hasn't went up all that much. By the grace of God, I filled out the form for reduced lunch prices for my daughter. The form said if anyone in the family receives social security disibility, you will qualify. Well, I have a special needs son, so I sent in the form. Her lunch now only costs me $.40/day. Also, she can eat breakfast for $.30. That's amazing to me! I didn't fill out the form last year because of pride. I'm really glad I swallowed my pride this year and sent it in! Do they have that program at your school. If you're in the U.S. I think it's a federal law.

$2.50 for frozen dinner? That's the last thing I would let my kid to eat. The first thing, it is frozen that means it contains harmful chemical preservatives. A meal should be hygienic, and delicious and at the same time it should be nutritious. I would suggest you to complain the concerned department and better send your ward with home made lunch.

I think that schools' charge way too much for the lunches they provide. These meals should be healthy, not designed to put kids off veggies and other things that are good for them, but boiled cabbage and broccoli that has been sitting in water for 2 hours is not appetizing! Our school lunches were $4.00 and I went in with a packed lunch every day! In the UK, a TV chef ran a string of programs designed to reduce cost and improve quality of school dinners, including having them cooked in the school, the petition ended up at 10 Downing Street!

my little one is not good at eating lunch anyway, so we don't buy school meals because it would be wasted (she would eat so little of it). Instead we send her with a packed lunch - that way she gets stuff that she at least likes, and also when she doesn't eat it, it comes back in her school bag so we know that she hasn't eaten a proper meal...and of course, we save a lot of money

I think this is too high for school lunch. I also have seen in recent time, there are many cases, where everything is seen as profitable business, be it school, college or offices. In our office itself, they are supposed to serve good food at concessional price. Instead what they serve are very bad food with very high price.

I didn't know school lunches cost so much. I thought they only cost about a dollar. I think the school lunches are worth around a dollar but yes, I think $2.50 is too much. I have looked at the school lunch schedule that our boys bring home and some days the lunch sounds good but an awful lot of the days the lunch doesn't sound so good. Our boys tell us that they will eat part of the lunch but not all of it so I worry they don't get enough to eat. I think the boys should take a healthy homemade lunch so we know what they have and that way it should cost less and taste better.

Last school year I went and had lunch with my children. When I saw what they were given for lunch I was digusted and decided right then and there that I would start sending lunch with my children. If my kids are going to eat something I want to make sure that it is healthy for them and not just some reheated food.

My god! that's already two hundred fifty Philippine Peso here, that's completely uncalled for! the most cheap meal here is almost a dollar but that's even too expensive to students in their schools. the last time i ate at school, that was years ago and it cost me only one dollar and half with rice all you can.that's not fair for the kids.

The lunches at my daughter's school aren't too bad. I do think they get catered from outside. I have seen some of the meals, and they look ok. They have been making improvements and the lunches are looking a bit healthier. I think we pay a little under $2.50. My daughter and I go through the menu at the end of the prior month and she picks the days she doesn't want to eat the school lunch. The stuff she loves at home, she hates at school. Like Mac 'n Cheese etc. More than half the month she brings lunch from home. It's better that way, since I know what she's eating.

Those frozen chicken nugget's they feed them and just heat up I tried some one day, they are nasty as can be. I would prefer seeing the kid's eat something good. I hate to say it but the school's are really getting skimpy. I saw my daughter last year have PB sandwiches almost every day all week long. That was not right. $2.50 for a PB sandwich and an apple. Gesh, I can send that to school with her for less then that.

Well. if you put it that way. It's way too expensive. Then your child don't deserve the quality of food because it's not fresh anymore so the nutrients in it depreciate. If I were you, pack a lunch for your child. This way you can ensure that the food that he intakes contain vitamins and minerals that support the child's growth and development. It may be time consuming, but the safety of the child's is greater. I would appreciate paying $2.50 with food cook inside the campus. This way the child can eat fresh vegetables and meat the are newly cook.

That sounds really bad. I was never fond of school lunches when I went to school, and they had a kitchen. And it turned out that army food was better. Including the MREs. Personally, I suspect that the price is inflated.

public school lunch is gross that is not a far price can get better food for that.

Not at all. I remember the prices being awful when I was in high school and middle school, but at college they are at their all time worst. We are given a meal plan that is $4.50 a meal. We use that to buy the food that we want from a little store or a restaraunt called "The Grill". At the store, that doesn't sound too bad, right? Wrong. A can of Spaghettio's is $2.89. I have seen them at the store for $1.50. A Chicken Pot Pie...at the school store $1.79. Regular store - $1.09. It is crazy. But the Grill, oh wow. Three pieces of chicken - $3.25! Its cheaper to get the same chicken strips at mcdonalds! I hate the way they use us for money. Plus, when we asked for healthier food...they gave us sushi. Most of the people on campus wont eat sushi...its very annoying.

I hafta apply my normal consumer skepticism and say that like so many other things anymore it is not for the provision of the user so much as the provsion of the profiteer. ENJOY!