10 School Cafeteria Lunches You Can Still Make Tonight - And the Lunch Line Ratio for Each One

📕 Get the full cookbook - The Lunch Lady's $3,600-a-Year Grocery Cut (175 recipes & tricks, scaled for 1, 2 or a family): www.dorislunchlady.com Five holes in a tray. Meat, a starch, a vegetable, a bread, and a little carton of milk that never once opened easy. Those five holes are the reason school food tasted the way it did, and they are the only thing you need to put any one of these ten on your own table tonight. I never hit a dollar and five cents a plate by finding cheap food. I hit it because the tray told me the proportion before I cooked anything, and that proportion still works when you are cooking for one. Number five is the square fish, and I can tell you exactly why it was square, because I cut it. Number four is the day the government changed its mind about what school food was. And number two is the only thing on that tray nobody ever had to be talked into. I am Mrs. Doris. Thirty-five years behind a school lunch line in Scioto County, Ohio. Four hundred children a day on a dollar and five cents a tray. Three things to write on a card, and they are the whole video. TWO OUNCES of meat, half a cup of starch, half a cup of vegetable. DRY, NOT STALE - bread for dressing, spaghetti three minutes short, peanut butter on the pan while it is hot. ONE POUND OF DRY BEANS is five cups cooked and eight bowls of chili. Tell me in the comments: did your school do the chili and the cinnamon roll, or did yours never once put those two on the same tray? And what county raised you? I read every one with my coffee. #schoolcafeteria #lunchlady