Although the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is being served up a Balboa High, San Francisco public schools still serve junk to kids. It's a big problem. Of what little money goes to free "school nutrition" at SF public schools, a slight $2.68 per meal, only $1 goes to the actual food itself.

And the food? As exampled in the above film featuring Lowell High, it's gross. It's what kids at Lowell, Aptos, and Balboa schools, just to name a few, are scarfing down on a daily basis. In addition to being overpackaged, typical entree meals for your average SF student resemble unattractive concoctions, barely edible ones at that, in the pizza and chicken nugget genres. In a city that prides itself on its noted (and still too elite) food culture, egregious doesn't begin to describe how and what we allow our youngest residents to eat at school. (OK, fine, we always looked forward to pizza Fridays back in school. Then again, we also ate two Snickers bars and a Coke for breakfast.)

However, preparing fresh lunches inside the schools (a pipe dream for anyone familiar with the public school system), according to Director of School Nutrition Ed Wilkins, would cost around $5 per meal. But with little to no money being aimed at schools these days, there's little chance of the government beefing up the budget anytime soon..