School Lunches

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They say school lunches are not meant to satisfy all the needs of all the students. That they are meant only to feed the students, just enough, so that they can continue their learning without losing concentration if those students did not come prepared with their own food. But, what if there was another way to get home cooked meals, even if you didn’t come prepared? What if there was a better way?
“We all want to eat good food. That’s just human nature.”, says Kris Gunnars in http://www.livestrong.com/article/392358-reasons-why-people-eat-junk-food-over. A recent survey, designed to prove this was, conducted by Fernandez, Antonio. “Healthy Food, Tasty Food, or Both?” Survey. 29 January 2016, students attending Moreno Valley High School were …show more content…

Instead, I’d recommend a healthy steak. Most, if not all, meat eaters can enjoy a grilled steak. The school could buy about 350 pounds of chuck shoulder boneless beef which, according to http://www.beefretail.org/wholesalepriceupdate.aspx , costs only $2.32 per pound, but that amount is enough to serve two plates; each with enough meat to fill a teenager for the rest of the school day. If my math is correct, while including all the condiments and drinks and a side of potatoes and a salad of decent size and gas price for running a school kitchen, the total cost of one meal would come out at about $2.11 per student meal, if sold at the Moreno Valley Unified School District standard lunch price for highschool students of $3, we would have a $0.89 profit. Then the program would essentially run itself. Supposing that the school, on average sells 700 lunches a day and kept two thirds of the profit to itself, we could hire three or four cooks to work at school each could be paid $68.41 - $51.31 and it would get back its

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