What's for (school) lunch?

A new blog allows you to literally see the meals. An Illinois teacher has decided to eat the school lunches daily, photograph them and write about her experiences.

Calling herself "Mrs. Q.," the anonymous blogger writes on her "Fed Up: School Lunch Project" blog that she intends to eat the lunches every day in 2010. She's on Day 24.

"It's very challenging to teach students when they are eating school lunches that don't give them the nutrition they need and deserve," she wrote in her first entry. "Oftentimes what is served barely passes muster as something edible.

"And after a meal high in sugar and fat and low in fiber, they then must pay attention in a classroom."

The blog's definitely worth a look. As you'll see, she doesn't criticize every meal, but is finding herself consuming more pizza (as you can see in the photograph she took) and hot dogs than she'd care to eat. The blog is quickly gaining quite a following.

The following are some of her observations so far:

"1) More people than I ever expected are interested in improving school lunch and reading about my misadventures.
2) School lunches normally consist of a main dish with some some meat product (often combined with a grain), a fruit product, a vegetable product, milk, and an additional grain if the meal needs it to comply with federal regulations.
3) The meals contain a lot of processed food items.
4) The food is bland and usually tasteless.
5) There is a lot of salt in the meals and they are low in fiber for the most part."

Give the blog a read and let me know what you think. Could this lead to a school lunch revolution? Is one even needed?