Home-made school lunches have too much salt,sugar etc

That's probably accurate. A lot of it is hidden in condiments. Reading labels for ingredients is really important these days.

Home-made School lunch boxes
One problem is sugarly drinks,cereal bars and chocolate.

MORE WATER,FRUITS AND VEGETABLE NEEDED.

You are right there, Badboy.

School lunches are worse. The options of pizza, nachos, hot dogs....chips, candy bars, pop....

I think home lunches are generally better.

I am beginning to dominate this forum.

You have been a bad boy

Those aren't options in a lot of school cafs - it's all about salad bars and fruit and juices - grilled meats etc. They don't allow pop or snack machines in a lot of schools now.

In my hometown - the vending machines at a couple of schools have fruit and bottled water.

The food in most of my schools (and these were good schools) was so groos that I was glad to have a pre-packaged food option. Not only was it disgusting tasting, but there was a hepatitis outbreak. I feel sorry for the kids not allowed to make their own lunch decisions. I'm sure none of the people making these decisions would be satisfied with eating -their- lunch in the school cafeterias.

That's one of the problems with buerocracy vs. competition. If there was competition between free vendors to provide healthy, tasty food to the students, it would happen. But buerocracy settles for whatever sounds politically ok and doesn't poison people most of the time.

Sounds like you were part of a lousy school system, Portal Star.

I went to two of what are considered the best high schools in Missouri, and Texas. The education was good, but the food sucked.