October 17, 2017

School lunches are usually what people expect. They expect the same foods every day, all year, and prepared the same way. Here at Central Kitsap High School (CKHS), there are small details that go into every lunch. The lunches are prepared by the cafeteria workers who work hard everyday to prepare the meals for multiple students for three separate lunches. The food triangle ( a widely recognized nutrition education tool that translated nutritional recommendations into the kinds and amounts of food we eat each day) is posted everyday in the lunchroom doesn’t always have to be followed.

“If students aren’t enrolled in the National Lunch Program, they don’t have to abide by the food triangle,” said cafeteria worker Lisa Degross. The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions.

Food at school is made very simply. The main foods such as the pizza and burgers are frozen and then put in the oven to be warmed up. However for the specialty foods, they aren’t frozen and cooked in the oven. The lunch ladies prepare them at the school.

Senior Zion Archer said, “If I had to choose between the regular food and the specialty food, I would for sure pick the specialty food.”

Before Michelle Obama changed the healthy food policy, the food was the similar but the ingredients were different. There was always pizza and burgers but there was that one special ingredient that made the foods a little more healthy. The ingredient was whole grain. All the foods were whole grain and the buns for the burgers were also changed to whole grain.