When I was growing up there were no such thing as school lunch. We bagged our lunches, or walked home to eat our lunch if we lived close enough. There was no physical education either. There was no need of phys ed, because we walked and played so much.

Interestingly, I remember only one overweight kid in my class from 1st to 8th grade. This was in the 60′s by the way. I graduated High School in 1972 and I can remember 1 overweight girl.

Our personal television got terrible reception, so we did not watch much of that in those days, I can’t remember my friends watching much TV either, there was too much fun to be had outside.

I read all this hype, in the news, about french fries and cookies sold in the school lunch programs. So kids are getting fatter, and the school budgets are out of site. It does not seem to me that the school lunch program is working.