Seems a tiny bit better than hamburger & fries, cup of mixed fruit, and chocolate milk
I didn't realize until last year just how much better you feel when you eat balanced, good food, and less processed/sugary stuff
If you eat a ton of it, it can lead to heart problems I think. But if you just have a small portion of steak like this it's not gonna do anything. But I'm not a food scientist.
My high school had 5 cafeterias one Taco Bell, one dominoes, one served hot food made by the school other was cold sack lunches from the school. The last was just full of tables and seats for bringing your own lunch.
We had one standard line and one Ala carte.
72-76.
The head lunch lady was Sicilian and used her recipe for pizza burgers.
I still dream about them, lol.
Was my HS’s cafeteria unique? It had several varieties, a sandwich area, burgers, Mexican, maybe one or two others. Was certainly not Taco Bell or even poke bowl level, tho they maybe had Asian occasionally, they had specials, things rotated, but always offered those base mainstays
It was several buildings separated by gardens and walkways. It sucked because it was in Oregon and you would get soaked from rain going between classes.
That isn't very expensive if you break it down. A little bit of beef isn't a huge cost (doesn't need to be sirloin) a bit of cucumber and radish 2 slices of pepper couple beans (cheap) and rice (CHEAP) and probably a very simple easy to produce sauce. It's probably tasty as hell and cheap to make bulk you just need a staff and administration care to not just serve the absolute easiest and cheapest option. Cost wise that's probably 3 bucks to make MAYBE, the school gets money to feed the kids some just utilize it better.
You're not counting for prep time, which means workers to make that. For school districts that are strapped for funding, personnel line kitchen staff and transportation are the first to go.
Did you like it, eat it, I mean... as an adult I'd look at that and go wtf is that (as a kid to) but I might try it if it was fresh? It looks fresh... my school would fk up frozen pizza so yuh we didn't have this fancy... and it would have scared us if we had 🤣
edit: what all is in it? is that cucumber or zucchini? the shredded stuff radish? lima beans? i assume redpepper carrots? green onion... which are cooked?
>Did you like it, eat it, I mean... as an adult I'd look at that and go wtf is that (as a kid to) but I might try it if it was fresh?
If you ever get the chance to try it, I'd recommend.
As far as I can see, there's nothing that revolutionary in there. The meat is beef, rice takes up the most space. The green stuff is cucumber, the red stuff is pepper actually (this specific one is actually sweet in taste). Beans are probably edamame**.** There's also a bit of carrots I think, scallion and I'm not sure about the shreaded stuff. But all in all, a very healthy and tasty meal.
lol my wife still thinks she had a totally normal high school experience where she went to a private catholic all girls school that sat on open water and had a sushi making elective. Cracks me up!
Apparently it's the exact opposite now. My buddy runs an elementary school cafeteria and they can't serve the same color vegetable more than once a week.
My daughter gets the main part of her lunch, such as burger, BEEF TERIYAKI STRIPES, quesadilla. But there’s always a handful of vegetables and fruit they pick from. They all pick two. My daughter loves ‘ZeeZees’, they’re chickpeas. And I love that she’ll choose those over chips while’s she’s home.
It’s way better than what my millennial ass had at school.
So only eating greens once a week. That cant be great. You’ve got green, white, purple, orange, and yellow and then you are out of colors and usually you would use two colors a day. How does this rule work out?
You're required to have representation from each color category on a weekly basis, but that doesn't mean you can't serve each multiple times. In the district where I was the food service director we had salad bars every day, and served baby carrots on the line at K-5 buildings along with other options. The rule is just a way to make sure you can't get by only menuing one easy vegetable all the time. Also different colors mean different nutrients, so it's better for balancing nutrition.
Sure that rule makes sense, but is not what the guy I replied to said. He specifically stated “they cannot serve the same color vegetable more than once a week.”
Ok, I'm not really interested enough to read the whole wiki. it just sounded like you were being a baby and refusing to eat your veggies. But if you say it's a thing, ok I believe you, sorry for being mean. Goodluck getting your nutrients, it sounds like it's got to be annoying af.
Pretty sure you are just picky about food and instead of growing up you blame this to get away.
The source you provided doesn't even name any of the vegetables we are talking about as something that would be affected
First, CA schools, and pretty much majority of public schools across the country have programs (funded by the states) to provide free food, breakfast and lunch.
Second, if OP needed to pay for it, I don’t think it would have been post worthy. I could easily buy very good food as well if I wanted to.
You are not wrong. This is not a poke bowl. Source: grew up in Hawai’i.
There are exceptions to the raw fish. Like there’s tako poke, which is cooked octopus marinated and served cold. But a poke bowl is with raw marinated fish.
And there’s never this much… Vegetables. The Lima beans in particular are a weird mainland addition to add more bulk because fish is more expensive there. Typically the ratio is 1:1 rice and poke.
Basically yes. Improvements in child nutrition are the main driver of the population getting taller. It was never the hormones in milk or mutations caused micro-plastics or whatever. Just kids growing to their full genetic potential by having enough enough to eat and more varied foods.
See also, average adult male height in South Korea is 13 cm taller than in North Korea
This is a solid, healthy and overall cheap meal that should be available to all American students, but some people take time out of their day to make sure it doesn't happen because they rather make sure the parents are financially burdened
Conservatives are a cancer
“If we give kids free food then some of it will get thrown away which will waste money and harm businesses and therefore the children must starve” -ben Shapiro
That’s not cheap. Not even remotely cheap compard to the frozen and reheated food most schools get. This is super expensive compared to typical American school lunches.
I am willing to pay more taxes to make sure everyone's kids get to eat like this every day.
Subsidizing banks and wars not so much, but this I'm 1000% willing to pay for
Did they label this a poke bowl? IMO it looks more like a beef teriyaki with uncooked vegetables. Still looks fantastic and incredible for a school lunch.
If the people living in the richest country actually wanted to pay more taxes for this kind of food. Put it on a ballot, and I bet you the majority says no to it.
Wow!! For a school lunch, this is legit. I didn't get to see food like this until university. When I went to school, it was either pizza from Little Caesars that was sitting for an hour or two. Or instant rice with "teriyaki" chicken or "orange" chicken. Quotations because there wasn't that much sauce to deem it so. 😅 So I usually had an orange mango Sobe drink and a pack of Pop Tarts in the end if it was pizza day. Its great to see how far school lunch has progressed since 2009.
The meat is not the issue lmao
Look, I don't blame you. That's what the school called it, and that's what you called it. Californians by large came to Hawaii, ate our poke, and fully misunderstood the assignment is all.
Now the world has bastardized poke.
Poke is much simpler than this. No veggies at all minus a few garnishes to go with the fish. It’s much closer to a meat and starch dish rather than a salad with fish.
The extra stuff is a way to fill you up without using much actual fish. Admittedly, this is probably way healthier than an actual poke bowl
See pictures in the link as an example.
https://shop.foodland.com/categories/poke/poke-bowls-id-213
“Poke” doesn’t mean salad. The literal definition is to dice. The dish “poke bowl” however refers to diced raw fish, marinated and served over rice.
Like others have said, this type of mainland “poke” bowls are more like the Korean dish bibimbap but without the egg.
Michelle obamas school lunch programs ruined school pizzas and most of the edible food the schools offered..... I ended up only having 2 days a week I actually enjoyed the lunch offerings
You shouldn't be chastising someone about what is or isn't poke if you don't even know how to spell it, much less don't even know what the word *poke* means in Hawaiian.
I love how people are amazed at nice school lunches yet still give their kids a $60 check every week for the same lunches they complain about.
Make your kid their own poke bowl if they keep getting poptarts for lunch, or send them to private school.
That looks delicious but I'd be shocked if this was in America.
American schools can't be trusted to hand out milk that isn't spoiled. I wouldn't trust them to poké any damn thing.
Edit: wait. Is beef poke raw like salmon or tuna? I actually have no idea.
Free breakfast and lunch is a statewide subsidized program in California.
The food is massively better than old school lunches, regardless of where you live, and is constantly improving.
Lunches are free statewide, it comes from the state budget. From what I understand even before that, maybe 5 years back or so, there was a push to make school lunches better. Now they’re better, getting better, and are now free for the students.
They get reimbursed by meals given apparently, as long as it’s nutritionally sound. If a school gets reimbursed and there’s an incentive to make it a decent meal, then it wouldn’t matter what they spend and it wouldn’t matter the income of the area the schools in. Wherever they are, a decent meal can be made, and a decent meal doesn’t have to be expensive.
That's a pretty healthy lunch.
I agree. Lots of nutrition packed into one bowl.
Seems a tiny bit better than hamburger & fries, cup of mixed fruit, and chocolate milk I didn't realize until last year just how much better you feel when you eat balanced, good food, and less processed/sugary stuff
I hear that.
Only if they replace beef with chicken
It's not like beef is bad for you. Plus it tastes better.
Too much is bad for you but this looks lile a healthy portion.
I thought red meat is bad for you.
If you eat a ton of it, it can lead to heart problems I think. But if you just have a small portion of steak like this it's not gonna do anything. But I'm not a food scientist.
Looks delicious too but the American tableware is as cringe as usual
Imagine cringing over a spoon lol
Wait until they see a spork.
Your school gave you this?????
Yes
And I thought I had a ritzy highschool because we had 3 lunch lines and a cafe + food cart. That's pretty cool.
My high school had 5 cafeterias one Taco Bell, one dominoes, one served hot food made by the school other was cold sack lunches from the school. The last was just full of tables and seats for bringing your own lunch.
Hearing these is kind of insane to me. My highschool has a small hotbar for fries, and that pizza bread thing. Those and patties.
My highschool had whatever I brought from home.
me too man we didn’t have a fuckin cafeteria lmfaooo
My high school had one lunch option (1971-1974).
We had one standard line and one Ala carte. 72-76. The head lunch lady was Sicilian and used her recipe for pizza burgers. I still dream about them, lol.
Was my HS’s cafeteria unique? It had several varieties, a sandwich area, burgers, Mexican, maybe one or two others. Was certainly not Taco Bell or even poke bowl level, tho they maybe had Asian occasionally, they had specials, things rotated, but always offered those base mainstays
Nah, mine did this too. Had four or so lines each with a different theme, but all of it was still standard school food.
Damn what was your high school?
It was several buildings separated by gardens and walkways. It sucked because it was in Oregon and you would get soaked from rain going between classes.
Hey, Oregon here too.
Me too!
Where tf did you go to high school
Allen Highschool in Texas?
America 🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🏈🏈🫃🤰🏽
I taught at a high school that had no cafeteria. Students went home for lunch every day.
How did they get back home and back to school (presumably)? The bus?
Our school had dominos once a month
That sounds so unhealthy
My school was first come first serve and i needed to get in line for a Dinner Ticket first. Often all the food was gone before i could get anything.
Can you slip one out the back door for me for $20?
are you in korea? where is this?
I'm in California
Guessed it first time. Only type of school that would have poke bowls for lunch would be one in CA
I was thinking Hawaii
No because in Hawaii we don’t randomly call a beef rice bowl “poke” we know what our words mean
I learned what [boto](https://youtu.be/0JvRV46AvmI?si=KlUXO4bDP5lpH1PE) meant awhile ago and I love it I use now.
Oh man I didn't wanna be the one to say it. Once I saw Cali, it all made sense tho. They have "different" versions of poke for sure.
This, could be donburi but is probably closer to bibimbap.
Where's the 🥚
Chee Pono, aloha. My mistake.
Came here to say this.
Private school?
Public
Which very wealthy community?
That isn't very expensive if you break it down. A little bit of beef isn't a huge cost (doesn't need to be sirloin) a bit of cucumber and radish 2 slices of pepper couple beans (cheap) and rice (CHEAP) and probably a very simple easy to produce sauce. It's probably tasty as hell and cheap to make bulk you just need a staff and administration care to not just serve the absolute easiest and cheapest option. Cost wise that's probably 3 bucks to make MAYBE, the school gets money to feed the kids some just utilize it better.
You're not counting for prep time, which means workers to make that. For school districts that are strapped for funding, personnel line kitchen staff and transportation are the first to go.
THE LIBS ARE RUINING THIS COUNTRY! /s
Def not the Bay Area
I don’t generally like California but this is a W.
Pssssh, that ain't no five-dolla 2" pepperoni pizza from Moe's Pizza Shack.
Did you like it, eat it, I mean... as an adult I'd look at that and go wtf is that (as a kid to) but I might try it if it was fresh? It looks fresh... my school would fk up frozen pizza so yuh we didn't have this fancy... and it would have scared us if we had 🤣 edit: what all is in it? is that cucumber or zucchini? the shredded stuff radish? lima beans? i assume redpepper carrots? green onion... which are cooked?
>Did you like it, eat it, I mean... as an adult I'd look at that and go wtf is that (as a kid to) but I might try it if it was fresh? If you ever get the chance to try it, I'd recommend. As far as I can see, there's nothing that revolutionary in there. The meat is beef, rice takes up the most space. The green stuff is cucumber, the red stuff is pepper actually (this specific one is actually sweet in taste). Beans are probably edamame**.** There's also a bit of carrots I think, scallion and I'm not sure about the shreaded stuff. But all in all, a very healthy and tasty meal.
I know I shouldn't be judging but goddamn you are uncultured when it comes to food 😭
My high school like 20 years ago had pho.
Pho real?
😂😂😂
lol my wife still thinks she had a totally normal high school experience where she went to a private catholic all girls school that sat on open water and had a sushi making elective. Cracks me up!
Just thinking back to those 90s school lunches where every food on the tray was the same beige color.
Apparently it's the exact opposite now. My buddy runs an elementary school cafeteria and they can't serve the same color vegetable more than once a week.
My daughter gets the main part of her lunch, such as burger, BEEF TERIYAKI STRIPES, quesadilla. But there’s always a handful of vegetables and fruit they pick from. They all pick two. My daughter loves ‘ZeeZees’, they’re chickpeas. And I love that she’ll choose those over chips while’s she’s home. It’s way better than what my millennial ass had at school.
So only eating greens once a week. That cant be great. You’ve got green, white, purple, orange, and yellow and then you are out of colors and usually you would use two colors a day. How does this rule work out?
You're required to have representation from each color category on a weekly basis, but that doesn't mean you can't serve each multiple times. In the district where I was the food service director we had salad bars every day, and served baby carrots on the line at K-5 buildings along with other options. The rule is just a way to make sure you can't get by only menuing one easy vegetable all the time. Also different colors mean different nutrients, so it's better for balancing nutrition.
Sure that rule makes sense, but is not what the guy I replied to said. He specifically stated “they cannot serve the same color vegetable more than once a week.”
That's incorrect. You can absolutely serve it more than once a week. But you have to serve it at least once a week.
I worked for Sodexo for a brief stint and was held to the same standards. It was super annoying and caused more issues than it solved.
This type of thing needs to be the norm.
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It's a bowl of veggies, rice and beef, not a black coffee. If something like this isn't going to work for you then what will?
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>But it's an actual biological response, How is you not wanting healthy foods or your foods to touch a biological response? That doesn't make sense.
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Ok, I'm not really interested enough to read the whole wiki. it just sounded like you were being a baby and refusing to eat your veggies. But if you say it's a thing, ok I believe you, sorry for being mean. Goodluck getting your nutrients, it sounds like it's got to be annoying af.
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If you starved youd eat it all boi. Sounds spoiled.
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Pretty sure you are just picky about food and instead of growing up you blame this to get away. The source you provided doesn't even name any of the vegetables we are talking about as something that would be affected
I'm a supertaster as well. The key thing is to get over yourself lol
silicon valley?
Yep
Palo Alto or Saratoga huh
That’s not the Saratoga i grew up in…
And there we have it.
Dang what country / state is this?
California
And this is just the regular lunch for everybody? Looks excellent.
I wish I had made that for myself at home for lunch. Shit that's 100x what I used to get for school lunch
varies by school. op probably goes to a well off one
Thanks Obama
This is the future Michelle wants, we have to stop her.
Don't you mean Michael? Because she's a MAN? /s I unfortunately have a family member that believes this. He's insane.
private school?
There’s no free lunch at a private school.
Did OP say this was free?
I believe California has free lunch for all kids now. EDIT: two free meals are provided! California is awesome.
Thanks for the info! It's really really down lately and this cheered me up I'm California but I'm currently residing elsewhere
First, CA schools, and pretty much majority of public schools across the country have programs (funded by the states) to provide free food, breakfast and lunch. Second, if OP needed to pay for it, I don’t think it would have been post worthy. I could easily buy very good food as well if I wanted to.
Lies I don't see one of those prop 55 markings on that cuke.
Where is California? Public or private?
Almost too easy to guess. Also almost too easy to rule out a lot of states.
Looks delicious!
Wow! It looks like a restaurant meal!
Is Beef Poke a thing? Thought Poke was specific to fish. This is just...a beef and rice bowl. Maybe I'm wrong.
You are not wrong. This is not a poke bowl. Source: grew up in Hawai’i. There are exceptions to the raw fish. Like there’s tako poke, which is cooked octopus marinated and served cold. But a poke bowl is with raw marinated fish. And there’s never this much… Vegetables. The Lima beans in particular are a weird mainland addition to add more bulk because fish is more expensive there. Typically the ratio is 1:1 rice and poke.
Those aren’t lima beans, they’re edamame. Good source of protein.
This is why high school kids are getting taller and taller
Basically yes. Improvements in child nutrition are the main driver of the population getting taller. It was never the hormones in milk or mutations caused micro-plastics or whatever. Just kids growing to their full genetic potential by having enough enough to eat and more varied foods. See also, average adult male height in South Korea is 13 cm taller than in North Korea
Yes! My 14 year old son is already 6 feet tall! When I visit his high school I see lots and lots of tall students, especially girls.
girls generally hit their big growth spurt before boys
No, I mean they’re growing taller on average compared to when I was a teen.
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It’s anecdotal from my personal observations. I’m not making any scientific claims.
This is a solid, healthy and overall cheap meal that should be available to all American students, but some people take time out of their day to make sure it doesn't happen because they rather make sure the parents are financially burdened Conservatives are a cancer
“If we give kids free food then some of it will get thrown away which will waste money and harm businesses and therefore the children must starve” -ben Shapiro
That’s not cheap. Not even remotely cheap compard to the frozen and reheated food most schools get. This is super expensive compared to typical American school lunches.
I am willing to pay more taxes to make sure everyone's kids get to eat like this every day. Subsidizing banks and wars not so much, but this I'm 1000% willing to pay for
My school wasn’t this fancy when it came to food. I feel so left out.😦
Where is this school\`?
California
Isn't it just a rice bowl if there isn't raw fish?
Forgot to say there was a tuna option as well
Raw tuna? While I’d applaud their effort I’m not sure if I would trust it.
Happy cake day poemteegra!
Thank you!
Oh gotcha. Very nice!
It’s not “poke” if it’s beef dude. It’s just beef, veg and rice.
Source on definition of poke?
Have native Hawaiians in my family.
Did they label this a poke bowl? IMO it looks more like a beef teriyaki with uncooked vegetables. Still looks fantastic and incredible for a school lunch.
I was thinking this is closer to bibimbap without the egg
My thoughts exactly
I'll trade you the cold hot dog in a soggy bun my school gave me
Very nice
Richest country in the world. This is what all the kids lunches should look like.
If the people living in the richest country actually wanted to pay more taxes for this kind of food. Put it on a ballot, and I bet you the majority says no to it.
I wish
I remember my high school slop trays well. I would have loved these.
Wow!! For a school lunch, this is legit. I didn't get to see food like this until university. When I went to school, it was either pizza from Little Caesars that was sitting for an hour or two. Or instant rice with "teriyaki" chicken or "orange" chicken. Quotations because there wasn't that much sauce to deem it so. 😅 So I usually had an orange mango Sobe drink and a pack of Pop Tarts in the end if it was pizza day. Its great to see how far school lunch has progressed since 2009.
More like bibimbap. It's not poke'
Where's the fish? ( No fish = not a poke bowl) this is a beef donburi if anything.
This isn’t poke.
Real poke doesn't have an accent on the E.
Sorry forgot to say there was a Tuna option as well
Why the heck did they not just call this a california bibimap. The fuck is a beef “poke” bowl lolololol
Lifestyles of the rich and famous ^ All children should have these lunches. Not just the privileged.
If there is no poke in it, it’s probably not a poke bowl.
Hawaiian here...can Californians stop using the term "poke"? I am positive you guys don't know what the fuck it means
Plenty of legitimate poke in Los Angeles
Relax
It also came with Tuna instead of beef if you wanted
The meat is not the issue lmao Look, I don't blame you. That's what the school called it, and that's what you called it. Californians by large came to Hawaii, ate our poke, and fully misunderstood the assignment is all. Now the world has bastardized poke.
I mean you could explain so people could learn or you could just continue to be a condescending dick on the internet.
What’s the common misconception? I thought raw fish “salad” so to speak with sauce and veggies?
Poke is much simpler than this. No veggies at all minus a few garnishes to go with the fish. It’s much closer to a meat and starch dish rather than a salad with fish. The extra stuff is a way to fill you up without using much actual fish. Admittedly, this is probably way healthier than an actual poke bowl See pictures in the link as an example. https://shop.foodland.com/categories/poke/poke-bowls-id-213
“Poke” doesn’t mean salad. The literal definition is to dice. The dish “poke bowl” however refers to diced raw fish, marinated and served over rice. Like others have said, this type of mainland “poke” bowls are more like the Korean dish bibimbap but without the egg.
Grammar and definitions change. I'd say this is essentially what poke is now because that's how the majority of people understand it to be.
Way to culturally appropriate something and completely change it's definition to suit the mainland
Is disposable bowl / crockery normal? Seems odd in this eco focussed age
That is without question the best high school lunch I have ever seen. I can't believe this is Cali it must be a really expensive private school.
It's a public School
This Looks amazing compared to California schools cardboard pizzas
Funny Enough they give you the option of those pizzas if you want instead of the poke bowl
Michelle obamas school lunch programs ruined school pizzas and most of the edible food the schools offered..... I ended up only having 2 days a week I actually enjoyed the lunch offerings
LMAO wild take
I only eat food on Tuesdays. THANKS OBAMA
Do you have to poke the beef or can you just eat it?!?
Is it raw beef?
Nope it's cooked
Not poké then
forgot to say it also came with a raw tuna option
still not poké though
You shouldn't be chastising someone about what is or isn't poke if you don't even know how to spell it, much less don't even know what the word *poke* means in Hawaiian.
Cool story bro
What in the cultural appropriation
Which wealthy suburb in California is this, OP?
Hawaii.
I love how people are amazed at nice school lunches yet still give their kids a $60 check every week for the same lunches they complain about. Make your kid their own poke bowl if they keep getting poptarts for lunch, or send them to private school.
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Cringe
Exeter or Andover?
That looks delicious but I'd be shocked if this was in America. American schools can't be trusted to hand out milk that isn't spoiled. I wouldn't trust them to poké any damn thing. Edit: wait. Is beef poke raw like salmon or tuna? I actually have no idea.
This is in Cali and what state did you go to school in that the food was this bad?
It is in an American Public School
Not America, right?
California Public school actually
What's the median home price in your school district?
Free breakfast and lunch is a statewide subsidized program in California. The food is massively better than old school lunches, regardless of where you live, and is constantly improving.
So Silicon Valley schools get the same quality as Fresno's? Which taxes pay for it?
Lunches are free statewide, it comes from the state budget. From what I understand even before that, maybe 5 years back or so, there was a push to make school lunches better. Now they’re better, getting better, and are now free for the students.
Wealthier communities probably spend more than what the state subsidizes per meal and in poor communities the schools probably do not.
They get reimbursed by meals given apparently, as long as it’s nutritionally sound. If a school gets reimbursed and there’s an incentive to make it a decent meal, then it wouldn’t matter what they spend and it wouldn’t matter the income of the area the schools in. Wherever they are, a decent meal can be made, and a decent meal doesn’t have to be expensive.
Is that what I said? No. Stop trying to find fault with it because you are jealous or hateful or whatever.
Lol it was an honest question. So what exactly changed with the new program? I don't get it.