When I was growing up in the 80s, school lunches consisted of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on white bread, fruit roll-ups, and boxes of Hi-C. The thought that they were filling our bellies with processed carbohydrates or that perhaps a carrot stick here or there might do us some good never occurred to most parents. I knew the importance of fruits and vegetables but, of course, was only too happy to dig into the bag of Cheetos my mother had tucked into my lunchbox.
