San Diego Public School foods have been ever changing with the different organizations that have risen to take on the challenge of trying to provide quality healthy foods for students at the elementary school level, middle school level, and high school level. Numerous different organizations have been started, trying to be the best, some to provide it for kids who have a rough life at home who can’t really afford it, some trying to make food more nutritious for the kids. From a few decades ago compared to now, I’d say that they have done a really good job of it.
A few years ago, when I was in elementary school, they served us food that tasted like rubber, we even had to question if what we were eating actually came from anything natural or was it glob with paint on it. There was no choice on what food to eat, they just gave everyone the exact same thing. The only real thing was the milk but only a small bit of it was given out. In 2002 the school district wanted to make things better for the students so they started given the kids choices on what to eat in elementary schools and supplied salad bars for kids who wanted to eat a little healthier.
Up until sometime in the mid 20th century kids even were sent home to eat lunch. There was no such thing as a “school lunch” maybe a snack or something but not a full on lunch. Kids who weren’t able to go home for lunch (because of distance) had to bring theirs to school in a pale.
