Cleveland schools take fresh approach to lunch

[@AngelTechno]

"You're giving us real food?" The fact that one of them said that is very depressing.

[@StephJ0seph]

That comment made me laugh-cry

[@melaniesartscrafts.etc.659]

And he was like 5 or 6 in the video back then

[@AdornedProduct1]

@@melaniesartscrafts.etc.659 even 6 year olds are aware how bad it taste

[@jamawilliams1577]

But A Win Because The Child Actually Knew the difference 😅

[@lanceb653]

No matter how good someone does or how much a organization improves, people always focus on the negative. Smh. That’s all you got out of this whole video?

[@krrishmenon6479]

“Vegetables are what colour they’re supposed to be.” That’s crazy! America has come a long way

[@zodiac_9984]

Krrish Menon I think you mean poor places have come along way my school has always been like this

[@bullcipher]

Krrish Menon i finally can get green lettuce instead of orange lettuce

[@spiderrZz]

Ikr, I’m shocked

[@amberf3599]

These kids are so precious. They deserve a good healthy lunch. This is awesome.

[@nathaliehernandez6987]

YEAH it's great!!!😊😊😊

[@tigertrix6029]

Lol disliked

[@samriwelkeish7981]

tiger trix602 …

[@blankblank5409]

shell company Yes cause dogs won’t hate you

[@blankblank5409]

shell company Huh?

[@iwatchorganic2737]

Who woulda knew that when you cook real food that kids would eat it..

[@aok9153]

I still wouldn't eat it, that "fresh" food looks like 10 year old dog shit. In Europe we get actual food in school you know on plates and stuff not some shitty food in styrofoam containers

[@zephyred7186]

BQNG at least here in America we have more respect for each other. And that’s saying a lot

[@antwanjames5101]

Wtf is they eating niggga damn 😡👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

[@wildchicken2049]

ღαfτσηღ respect???xd have you been staying in your home all day?look at all the racism and sexism going on in america.look at the corruption of the government

[@zephyred7186]

Wild fire I said MORE respect hun.

[@ttennebsicnarf6887]

I’m literally laughing how this is new for America

[@turtlewub]

feel bad for us. the us doesnt care about it's citizens.

[@jessecohen4517]

In my country everything is cooked from scratch at the schools

[@kellyvoong5343]

Ya my school still does packages

[@k1e1n1t1o]

It's new again! How it used to be when I was a kid. All scratch as a matter of fact. And yes, it is cheaper to do it this way than prepackaged stuff. Same with restaurant industry.

[@prasannapadmanathan9393]

Americans eat sewage whereas their ancestors ate fancy soufflés

[@isabella-og7wn]

I’m glad to see schools doing SOMETHING right

[@princedavid6682]

Gymnast ._.alicia and they still havent

[@jasmynesweeting8366]

I see u everywhere

[@isabella-og7wn]

Jasmyne Sweeting lmfao fr?

[@jasmynesweeting8366]

@@isabella-og7wn yea

[@spiderrZz]

Compared to other country’s... this looks like crap.

[@MSW96]

Seeing these precious babies enjoy their lunch makes me so happy haha

[@sh0paHoLic]

All schools across the US is full of awful meals that are pre packaged. School lunch should be nutritious. Parents depend on schools to feed them when they aren’t with their kids and what we are offering them is shit even dogs and rats wouldn’t eat. So maybe instead of having some schools complaining about how it isn’t their fault that kids aren’t eating they should find out why and change it.

[@deboss8998]

Accept private and some charter schools

[@ApollyonZKX]

Maybe their parents should push their local communities and vote for people who can make these changes.

[@zodiac_9984]

Jasmine Ng not all schools mine which isn’t a private school has great lunches and only the really poor places have these kinds of meals or the really old ones

[@theroadtocosplayandcomicco5840]

Nutritious and delicious

[@wvugirl30b9]

Us school cooks work hard and with what we get shut up

[@crazieeez]

I love seeing smiles from kids and love seeing them eat healthy. They are joys to me.

[@cracker9818]

it’s not only the kids who like the change but the workers too, they look happier than any lunch worker i’ve seen.

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

The whole world has been doing this forever, even countries in Asia and Africa lol

[@rs3coop]

I can get sushi at my PUBLIC school in america

[@31oise]

It's because it's the junkie country america

[@friendlyenemy4654]

Lol I grew up eating that dirt, it has more nutrients and at least it's not frozen

[@jackdoble2]

depends where you go in america

[@PaypeBoi]

Kirito Jr. people In continent Africa don’t eat rocks and dirt like you see in tv that brainwash you they actually eat some good African delicacy’s in there.

[@danielalfred937]

In Malaysia school lunch is cooked fresh daily. You can see it cooked fresh as workers start very early in the morning at 6am.

[@Chaos_Nova]

Fr big nut?

[@devinngeorge]

However there are alot of shitty issues there

[@Ethan-101]

Heh I used to live in Johor at MCM the food was amazing like pasta and all that but now that I’m in Australia u gotta pack ur own lunches even though we pay 15,000 USD dollars a year it’s bs

[@Jake-dh9qk]

Well in Ameirca, school lunch is microwaved daily, so we have something in common at least.

[@nusaibahibraheem8183]

@@devinngeorge however the food is nutritious and delicious which is what we are actually talking about here.

[@qubieuphoria]

I hope they keep this up, those babies are so precious.

[@jjhlk6737]

It's so nice these ladies are making good food for their kids.

[@emilyjensen9217]

That school has a heart that made my day

[@sbps2098]

School doesn't have a heart.

[@possibleimpossible6705]

Lunch ladies like that deserves a gold medal

[@Wew971]

I've been at this school, I wish I could go back. Many memories take over my mind. The teachers there were the best.

[@sbps2098]

How can you like the school? It's a hell now.

[@rutherfordclan5693]

Man we used to get Chalupas basically a taco shell shaped like a boat with cheese and beans or pizza ... back in the 80s it was different

[@Violet_ii]

Watching stuff like this makes me realize my school is actually great

[@k1e1n1t1o]

Like how it was when I was a kid. In Nevada the lunch budget is $4.50 per student. They get milk, the trashiest chicken nuggets, a roll and a cookie. Really? Someone is getting pockets lined. Pure corruption and laziness. Food industry is one field where you can serve better for less including the extra labor. Prepackaged Sysco foods have diminished the restaurant industry and schools. I mean health concerns aside, you could still line corporate pockets by simply calling out a fast food franchise and still save money! I'll bet just about any McDonald's franchisee would love a ten thousand Happy meal contract at $4 each served on site! Kids would get a burger, milk, caramel apple and a toy! Still cheaper and more nutritious than what they're getting now!

[@Nunya-_-]

Kento Komoto bs 4:50 cents no way!! Most ive ever heard of is 2:50. I call bs

[@k1e1n1t1o]

ccsd.net/departments/food-service/free-reduced-meal-program Shows middle and h.s. lunch at 3.25. There is an additional 1.25 that is subsidized equaling $4.25. Reduced and free lunch is further subsidized. Last year's ccsd lunch budget was reported at $4.50 per meal. Elementary schools may be slightly less as is the breakfast program.

[@k1e1n1t1o]

4.50 sorry typo

[@tiffanilinn9971]

The food actually looks good, I would buy lunch from there

[@ianbridges6040]

Food is one of the biggest deciding factors in a students mood for the day. Better food -> better mood -> better learning!

[@jonngarcia4695]

That food actually looks good

[@matrix5539]

Its not trust me

[@SurprizE98]

Matrix Do you go to that school?

[@mdlmedia8082]

it aint, i live in cleveland too so i would know that

[@emperor2344]

@Vance Trieschmann yeah I need new skins in fortnite

[@parisbleikur7160]

“Frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli” 🥦 😂

[@manira9741]

I just watched a French school’s cafeteria food, in comparison this looks like 🤮🤪🤢

[@Yautah]

As a french guy I'll say props for trying, but still eww...

[@alex-iz5jv]

ya Same French school food actually looks good

[@akositonton]

School lunch in a ‘poor’ French public school is high class food if you bring it to my country.

[@gandhi4538]

It’s nasty. I only eat the food that they don’t make.

[@bobxie8634]

French school shouldn’t be compared

[@fallingbed1]

My high school serves some nasty plastic shit rip

[@donnastandley8056]

Our school lunches in the 60’s and 70’s were home cooked and delicious. Time has created worse food and fewer selections. This has to change.

[@nonterrestriaI]

This program is so awesome!

[@burner_account1313]

In my high school in Malaysia, our school would hire outside caterers to cook in our school, so in our cafeteria it would be like a mini foodcourt, however it was a bit more expensive, a bowl of rice or noodles would be about RM5 to RM7, many teenagers who couldn't afford the food would just buy some fruits or a sandwich

[@Ryan-mn2os]

I remember in 5th grade my friend and I volunteered to bring untouched/opened fruits and veggies back to the kitchen and one day we saw a plastic bag of sloppy joe just sitting out, and it was basically pure liquid. This was a primarily upper-middle class city.

[@karlarevero7811]

I’m goin to lunch at 1:50 and it is 1:30 who is ready to get processed food today yum 😋

[@All3me1]

Imagine the shock when amaricans realize that fresh food is cheaper 😂😂

[@xravenz5995]

This school is doing food right

[@gstar9]

xRavenz not really but its a great start though...

[@mush2938]

Aww the kids are so cute.

[@helenubina6968]

Wonderful, in the old days my days food was cooked right on site kitchen. And it tasted pretty good.

[@trumpsplans4075]

the more you save on your food. the more health risks the children will have in further future. Giving them food that is rejected by big companies are useful just for Bussiness purposes but not for health purposes

[@k1e1n1t1o]

Prepackaged stuff is way more expensive. From scratch even with labor is way cheaper, healthier and tastier. Boils down to laziness and who's in who's pocket for the contracts. Sad.

[@mdd4296]

"From scratch even with labor is way cheaper" Totally wrong. Especially in north america and western europe where wage and regulation are really high in comparison to the rest of the world. Mass production is always cheaper: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale. In fact, school kitchens are small scale mass production of sort where they buy ingredients in bulks to make thousands of identical dishes. You cant even begin to save that much money/capita cooking for yourself or your family. People who cook daily look at the price tag of prepackaged meals and think they are "more expensive" because those demographic honestly cant see alternatives to those hours outside cooking. Let's say you need roughly 1 hours to prepare every meals: wash and process the ingredients in different way (goes into your utility bills), heat them up (goes into your energy bills), organise them on dish, make the table... Then 30 minutes to clean up and wash the dishes after meals. The time and effort get longer the more members there are in your household... That's 1.5*3 = 4.5 hours a day. 4.5*30 = 135 hours a month = nearly 6 days/month. If those hours are simply sunk into a minimum wage job in the USA, it would earn $978,75. Not to mention those hour could be spent honing your income earning skills or train new ones, read about business opportunities or create new one (like... ironically enough make youtube video about cooking or cook for other people...) or simply pursue leisure outside cooking that is actually much better for you than a "healthy meal" like physical activities.

[@jayah6227]

Money is more important than human life so they don't give a shit

[@Nardos553]

Even hospital food is better than School food.

[@mars1061]

The benefit of a small school (in this case, my high school) is a community atmosphere and in turn, a community garden. I was lucky to have FRESH food made from SCRATCH.

[@pancakefluffy785]

One time my friend was eating those nasty cheap fridge food and found a PEICE OF METAL in her cold lasagna and she was about to swallow it #SHOOKITHTOTHECORE

[@SaltyDooDoo]

5 years later...would love to see an update.

[@margaretlee-reed814]

Does everything have to be wrapped or boxed these days in school lunches? (This is the second part of the video of them cooking REAL food.) How difficult (and cheap) is it to make egg salad and runs salad sandwiches? Celery/Carrot sticks with rsynch? Carrot raisin salad? Loaded baked potatoes? Half banana, half apple, have orange - as a choice or pre selected lunch item? The bread? Pumpernickel bread? Wheat bread? While grain bread? Let them choose or mix and match with the tuna/egg salad sandwiches. Milk, yogurt cups, cheese sticks or small round gudha cheese in red wax, home made pudding made with milk, frozen yogurt. BP & J sandwiches? Corn, homemade mashed potatoes with butter, coleslaw, fried okra, green beans, black beans, homemade chili and slaw/cheese hot dogs, taco salad, Cobb salad, red potatoes with seasonings, chicken & dumplings, baked chicken? Rice? Egg drop soup? Egg rolls? Tacos? Empanadas? Baked chips? Homemade chili? Grilled cheese? Hamburger/Cheese burger with lettuce, tomatoe and pickle? Milk, chocolate milk, orange juice, spoke juice, tea? Most parents could make these lunches for an average of 75 cents a day or $3.75/week. Schools buy in bulk (half price) and can't pass out more than a $0.50unch tray to be sold at ~$4.00/day/per child. Now staff do a third of the work because very little if any cooking required.

[@vidhatunsek3822]

In Europe almost every school has fresh lunches

[@virpiovanmeteran1599]

I am glad some schools are doing this and I wish all schools were doing this, some of those kids don't have a good family life and that might be the only good meal they have all day. I am glad to see its fresh and health and gives them strength.

[@dannybadillo-q4s]

chethjeg vdbk😅

[@chalktalkwithshari4173]

This was my lunch every day in the 1960’s. 😊

[@blankblank5409]

Wait...

[@newworld2086]

A freshly cooked meal does wonders for kids. In India the goverment started the mid day meal program which serves fresh food every day to students & majority of poor students who were not sent to school by their parents started to come regularly & were more attentive in their classes.

[@Henry.mp4]

I'm still sold on the lunches they provided in primary school when I was little

[@defenderoffreespeechpronra336]

I like the semi scratch program.

[@tongsampah1890]

Defender of Free Speech & Pro NRA in malaysia the servers just wake up early as fuck like 5am and start cooking everything from scartch

[@bananaboat5031]

@@tongsampah1890 that's when we wake up for school 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@blankblank5409]

How come there are accounts with shitty cringy names and cat profile pictures? Wtf

[@georgecabrera9039]

That's honestly amazing

[@crankiefrankie1]

what an amazing concept school cooks actually cooking again! the full circle> local sourced fresh food to supply the school and real cooks cooking again. And as seen in some schools left overs should be packaged as "to go" for kids who may be in food crisis at home.

[@giovannatrejo3525]

Not true at my school they serve like nasty food and I stay at school for 6 hours and feeling sick or passing out cuz I don’t have time to eat at my house and that school food like no no yea not all school already cook freshly

[@n3Cr0ManCeD]

Was I the only one to cringe when I saw the dollar bill on the tray with food? Feces, cocaine, animal saliva and over 100 strains of bacteria are on nearly every $1 bill in circulation. And that is a shortened list.

[@SquidCena]

Dude bacteria is everywhere and there is nothing you can do about it. You know that your keyboard/phone has way more bacteria than a toilet?

[@Shriiiiners]

Yes I was fucking disgusting

[@unitedstates4912]

ants crawled into my keyboard and died but i didnt clean it

[@starkstark4186]

@@unitedstates4912 wtf

[@gandhi4538]

There is germs everywhere yet you don’t say anything until now.

[@jazminearvizu3347]

I wish they did this at my school but all our food comes prepacked nothing is fresh maybe sometimes the fruit is but even that sometimes is rotten

[@ohsunkang1177]

My school in Portland, OR was serving the EXACT same thing! What a coincidence.

[@logan8921]

I wish my school had this, we eat our lunches from boxes with cellophane wrappers. :/

[@Nostradamusknow]

Love the way the cook said it. 😊

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

2:29 I swear I've seen the kid before.. but where?

[@jennifersihandri4238]

الإسلام هو تحفة الشيطان buzzfeed?

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

@@jennifersihandri4238 oop yep xD

[@trace5281]

Cook fresh meals. I grew up eating school lunches prepared fresh on site every day. Nummy smells permeated the school and you'd hv quite the appetite by the time the bell rang.

[@coloredfox3463]

I dont even eat because of how expensive my school food is...

[@michaelkitchen4174]

one thing I remember about school lunch was that they put bean powder in the hamber chuck to make it go farther as a filler.and it was to salty and there was always green beans served with it.those little milk cartons were fattening to don't drink to many of them regularly.

[@namadepannamabelakang3128]

When your kid don't want to eat at home you know way

[@katherinegilmour2573]

Wow!!! This story is what I really enjoy! I've seen the quality of the food & quantity go downhill for years now. This is refreshing news- gives me hope that other schools will model their lunch program after this one. It's a major issue. I can recall being a youngster & the smells from the cafeteria really stimulated my appetite, but the older I got the worse the lunches became. So, let's share this! And hope the "menu changes". If it's not appetizing to you, & you would turn up your nose, then the same goes for the kids..

[@astaroi333]

At my school we bring lunch boxes

[@52Brickz-278]

Kids:are happy Pre teens:nooo you. Ant Just do that

[@kuuchuburanko]

‘’so even if frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli”

[@bendahlin1384]

is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli

[@samriwelkeish7981]

koyu It looks and tastes much better-

[@ChipOtero-l8j]

You know what school lunches is very important for kids it's just very special.

[@skskdbehsu]

Y’all remember trying to rush to the door to get in line behind or in front of your crush so you could sit with them at lunch

[@peep6017]

I go to a private school (it doesn’t require a uniform) so the food is better then normal food since i live in NYC

[@simonalyneenderz3247]

Center Grove High School in the eighties. Our dietician brought her own lunch, she said she would never eat the school lunches. What does that tell you?!?!

[@tiffanilinn9971]

Time, effort, and freshness is all it takes

[@mikekitevski5684]

While these kids eat potatoes and biscuits every day my school eats frozen chicken nuggets and pizza.

[@wheresnightmare]

Thats how my daughter school is. She doesnt even like their broccolli but shell finish mine lol

[@ms.goodiebones1969]

My daughters (charter) schools fed them fresh food. Old school cooking from scratch. It was so good parents would come to buy lunch from them. Look when you're getting seasoned chicken breast and all the fixings who would choose fast food.

[@jager4508]

They don't even get porcelain plates in america?

[@mindygivens5595]

My school lunch is super good and they have a lunch rack and ice cream container and a salad bar. My school serves really good stuff everyday and has stuff like fresh cheeseburgers and Bosco stix,pizza and tacos and All kind of stuff and I'm thankfulness

[@chriswalls5831]

Cleveland, California, Minnesota free meals

[@jazlyneg7164]

I live in Oklahoma and the public school food is so disgusting like i cant its soo bad i was literally about to throw up when i took a bite of the pizza

[@chickencutlet3]

I lived there for three years and.... 😷 It was bad

[@kaybee2798]

I wouldn’t consider any staff at my school a Mom😂

[@blankblank5409]

More like demons who haven’t been touched by there husbands in years

[@unitedstates4912]

meanwhile my school just cut 4 things i normally got from the menu and replaced it with literally nothing else

[@kaymtz4206]

I feel lucky my school did serve better meals than other schools but it’s sad some school don’t seem to be doing a lot of effort on kids lunch

[@Sleepyheadd27]

The philippines has been cooking fresh food in school cafeterias for years

[@-_-----]

America rediscovers fresh food. Revolutionary.

[@tiffanilinn9971]

Can every school take notes here please, making baked potatoes and biscuits from scratch and that actually taste good, if every school did this people would actually eat it cause it’s actually delicious and tasty

[@BrownRice978]

I loved the school lunch I had in primary school and secondary school ( from the uk)

[@Dre12008]

God Can This Be The Case Everywhere.

[@yellowbird5411]

Isn't it interesting how, no matter how we try to "innovate" we get into trouble, especially if we try to improve on nature and do things our way. We are learning that you really cannot improve on the natural system, and food is certainly one example. So, we go back to cooking from scratch. Gee, what a unique concept.

[@gr8pes]

I’ve never actually ate school lunch, I’m in a more homeschool program but when I was in public school I just didn’t eat lunch.

[@cracker9818]

that baked potato actually looked edible

[@angeloa6972]

We already had a similar lunch like this in my school. I never knew lunches were wrapped in plastic

[@maksi6]

Took so long for this School, its good but you guys need it in every School. Im lucky to live in finland

[@fornitemaster4286]

Man my school lunches are amazing at one point they servers steak we have a salad bar and everything

[@naturallymeii224]

Even though frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli is frozen broccoli 😂 ...but really it’s great that they made these changes.

[@larsjostvuono1499]

the government here in finland gives every town its school food and its really good

[@samuelfranco3744]

Bruh I've never been this jealous for a school lunch LMAO

[@rhettjanes1056]

I grew up in small little town in Ohio and when I was in school the school lunches were really good they actually did cook most everything there on site there chicken pot pie was delicious and same way with your chicken and noodles

[@dontsubscribetomyfuckingch8142]

While at my school we still have grey rubber

[@tiffanilinn9971]

This just proofs it, if you actually make it fresh from scratch and get creative they will eat it without hesitation and get full and have good reviews on it

[@giovannatrejo3525]

I wish i was in that school cuz in my school has very bad food and i cant even eat that it disgust me and i stay 6 hours at school and im always staving and feeling sick or like passing out and im always nice to the lunch ladys and saying “thank you” yea thats why i say i wish i was in that school.

[@CallSignAlza]

My school cooks its food over night, or the days when we don’t have school.

[@stevedave5748]

We had Chick-fil-A and Chinese food at my school. I had no idea how lucky I was.

[@frankm4654]

The potato with barbecue beans were actually good. I wish they served it every day other than once this year=(

[@avrilpeters]

Frozen vegetables stay fresher for longer as they are picked, prepared and frozen very quickly