"Hot Dog Day". Once a month, put on as a fundraiser by/for the Parent-Teacher Assn. Two fresh-made hot dogs and a bottle of REAL Orange Crush(in the brown glass bottle). One dollar and 10 cents.
Now days there would be a thousand ethical/health and sociology-religeous reasons for NOT doing any such thing. Life was so much simpler back then.

when i was in elementry school they server disquesting pizza in melted bags. and they serverd pretty good mexican pizzas when the mexican food service came every friday. also the sides were either leaking frozen milk, usally 1/4 a leaking pickle in a bag, some sorta pudding, and something that they didnt pack a juice cup (it was more like a bowl)

for jr high:
fries (onlying i really ate), taco (good but eh costed $2 for a small taco), hamburger ($2.50 for a 0.5cm beef patty with a bun),FRESH pizza (though still desquesting), hotdogs (1 foot), and SODA (finally), also sometimes special iteams such as turkey when it the day before thanks giving...

high school:
chicken wrap (it was delious and i miss it because it was $3 for the most delius thing you will ever taste. my last 2 years i only had a half period lunch and everyone always got it so i couldent eat it thoose two years., fries (dry and cold), hamburger (like jr high), spagetti (not worth money for the portion, speciallty(like new orlean chicken which it didnt taste like that), and diet soda which made me more hungry....

I suppose not everyone can make their own lunch, but BY JEEZERS, it saves money and at least you know what's in it. It starts at home. I used to have Sandwedges wrapped in Wax Paper with a Cragmont Pop in the bottom of the ol' brown bag - all through high school. Not fancy, but it was what we had and I ate it or I was hungry. Call me a nerd or whatever, but HS seems so insignificant now..... Ironically, I now have a SWEET girlfriend that is on the same page and she MAKES MY LUNCH every day....and I LOVE HER for it....

All of you people who actually had MONEY as kids...enough money to actually buy lunches from the school cafeteria...try being a student with 0 cash...seeing your friends buy french fries and whatever crappy entree the grade 11 food students made.

As for me I always just brought whatever lunch my mom packed. Typically it was just a single piece of ham between two slices of bread. And that's it. No fancy "side" dessert stuff. You people were sure spoiled as kids...

In my opinion, after teaching in the USA for five years, I can honestly say that Canada should implement a national breakfast/lunch program. There are so many poor kids in Canada, especially in the Aboriginal community.