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Lunch Item(s): Pickle, Costs 1 cent.
Facts: While Many kids went home many poor children were given a penny to buy food. Pickles were cheap but were considered junk food.

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Lunch item(s) + Cost: Pea soup, rice, bread, and stewed prunes, 3 cents.
Facts: The New York school lunch committee offered meals for 3 pennies. Kids could splurges on an extra side such as stewed prunes for an additional penny.

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Lunch Item(s): Boiled beef, bread, and Creamed spinach.
Facts: Hot meals became a staple of school lunch in the 1920s. Schools began tracking students health because they feared these meals lacked complete nutrition.

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Lunch Items: Cracked wheat chowder, Apple, Oatmeal, Raisin cookie, Milk, and a cottage cheese sandwich.
Facts: In 1933 congress passed the Agriculture Adjustment Act. This allowed schools to buy surplus items from farmers, which found their way onto lunch trays across America

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Lunch Items: Liver Loaf, bread, butter, green beans + corn, an orange, and milk
Facts: The National school lunch program was signed into law by Harry Truman in 1946.

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Lunch Items: Orange coconut custard, Milk, Cheese meatloaf, Sasuge shortcake, and Ham + bean scallop.
Facts: The baby boom meant feeding more people, so school lunches had to ramp up production. By 1952, school lunch became a $415 million dollar business.

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Lunch Items: Milk, Orange Juice, Eggs, Toast, Banana.
Facts: The Children Nutrition Act was passed in 1966, which added breakfast as part of the school lunch.

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Lunch Items: Milk, Buttered Corn, Fried Chicken, and Jello-o.
Facts: The USDA put out guidelines in 1979 that said school lunches only needed to have "minimal" nutritional value.

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Lunch Items: Capri sun, Chocolate pudding, Cheese pizza, Fruit Cocktail, Chicken nuggets.
Facts: Ketchup now counted as a vegetable as a response to cutting the school budget by $1 billion.

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Lunch Items: Taco bell, Chick-fil-a, Mcdonalds, and of course soda.
Facts: Fast food companies were welcomed in school cafeterias because it helped fund the lunch program.

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Lunch Items:  Grilled Chicken, Carrots + Celery, Baked Chips, Apple, and Milk.
Facts: Over half of U.S. schools had fast food in their cafeterias by 2005. With obesity rates on the rise schools began offering healthier snack options like baked chips.

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Lunch Items: Low-fat milk, salad, Clementine, Ham + Cheese Spinach wrap.
Facts: President Obama signed the healthy, hunger free kids act in 2010. It drastically changed the nutritional standards for school lunches with debatable success.