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Awful! I can't understand how my mother allowed me to eat that stuff, or how it was allowed to be served to children. That being said, I remember it costing something like $1/day. We had shepherd's pie (after having mashed potatos, corn and some sort of ground meat earlier in the week), cheese pizza, some sort of meat sandwich with gravy on top, cheeseburger, tater tots. The rolls were okay, and the ice cream cups.

The Gourmet Cookbook is my no-fail, go-to cookbook. Otherwise, it changes daily: at the moment I like Thomas Keller's Bouchon, and James Peterson.

Salads and sandwiches can be very creative, and quick. All you need is a great loaf of crusty bread, and whatever toppings appeal to you/your family - I would try tapenade, caramelized onions (can be made in advance, and last all week), a favorite cheese, homemade mayo, proscuitto, pesto. Also, you can grill sandwiches/make panini. Foro salads you could throw in any canned/bottled ingredients you love, such as roasted red peppers, tuna, capers, beans, beets, etc.

Cook/do a lot of prep work on the weekend! I love to make a big pot of beans, pasta sauce, or soup which can be eaten for lunch all week. I also like to prepare home made things that can be added to things, such as caramelized onions, tapenade, pesto, etc.

I would eat with my husband, and we would eat his family recipe for homemade ravioli; for dessert we would have paris brest.

My high school's food was unfathomably bad--rubbery chicken nuggets and pizza soaked in grease. College food, on the other hand, while tiresome, is much better. We have salmon, flank steak, ribs--all good stuff. :)

I am so the outlier. I can say that most of what everyone describes was totally absent on my high school's lunch menu. I gruadted less than five years ago, so the whole "healthy lunch program" was just going into effect.

We had buffalo chicken sandwiches on Wednesday and chicken tenders on Thursdays. French fries, pizza and wraps too...sounds like standard fair, right? It was all air-fried, low fat and whole wheat. Mostly the least popular too...we had a sushi chef come in on Tuesdays, and we had a daily stir fry station. The salad bar was enormous, and they had a make-you-own smoothie bar. Grilled/roasted veggies were always an option and never soggy. The hamburgers, grilled chicken sandwiches and veggie burgers were also tasty. I do miss the make-your-own nacho bar with fresh salsa and avocado slices!!

I also went to public school, in case anyone was wondering. I've heard that they now accept credit and debit cards in the cafeteria and/or an ID card with stored dining dollars that's controlled online--and subsequently allows parents to SEE what their children are buying. Kinda Big Brother-ish.

chickpeas or black beans
corn
amy's spicy vegetarian chili for the nights i'm not home so that hopefully my husband will eat something

man, i think that's all my cans. sometimes light coconut milk makes it's way in there. i'm pretty boring in the pantry i guess, most of the food goes in the fridge. usually buy westbrae, eden or goya...it's what the corner bodega stocks.

@tommyok...you ate one what? i'm so confused by your comment.

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Who can tell me where can I buy one here in my downtown,I ate one at my friend's house that he bought from somewhere,it's tasty.

I pretty much avoid most baking recipes, except for the simple things I grew up making, like cookies or biscuits. I do not make candy, cakes, or especially meringues. maybe someday when I am not living in a cramped apartment with an electric stove. That's pretty much it in terms of deal breakers; I will try most things at least once before giving up on the idea.