Are school lunches making our kids obese? I don’t know a lot about school lunches because I carried my lunch to school for 12 years – so did almost every kid in my class. And the lunch I brought wasn’t very healthy. For years, I made cream-cheese-and-olive sandwiches for myself. Then I graduated to peanut butter and jelly, then baloney and cheese.

Now that most kids get their lunch at the school cafeteria, I hear the school lunches are killing them. They’re making them fat and giving them diabetes. Doctors say 10-year-olds have high cholesterol because the school lunch menu is heavy on things like pizza and cheeseburgers, tacos and fried chicken, which is pretty much the same kind of food choices you pass while driving your kids to school. It’s not as if they are suddenly eating lentils and Brussels sprouts after they leave school.

“Oh, mom, let’s stop at the International House of Soy and Grass-fed, Free-range, Cage-free Cattle.”

“Dad, can we have a McBean sprout sandwich on whole wheat bread in the doctor-recommended portion size? Can we? Can we?”

“No, we had that last week. Let’s all go get some KBSC, Kentucky Baked Skinless Chicken. They make sure their portions are no bigger than a deck of cards and I love their fresh greens with yogurt dressing.”