I used to drool over the Vegan Lunch Box blog every lunch break. Each weekday, a new photo of a scrumptious-looking packed lunch would go up — made by food blogger Jennifer McCann for her son. Every mostly-homemade meal would be packed in the kid’s reusable Laptop Lunchbox too!

Now, there’s a counterpart blog of sorts: A somewhat terrifying photoblog of school lunches.

Dubbed Fed Up, this blog’s written by one Mrs. Q — an anonymous teacher at an Illinois school who’s planning to eat the same food her students eat for all of 2010. We’re talking highly processed peanut butter and jelly graham sandwiches individually packaged in non-recyclable pouches, “100% fruit punch juice” with a label noting ingredients could come from 7 different countries, and “cherry icee” with no cherries on the ingredient list.

“Oftentimes what is served barely passes muster as something edible,” writes Mrs. Q — but her reviews of the meals are often quite forgiving. “It smelled terrific and it actually tasted really good,” she says of “rib-a-cue” — a mysterious hunk of probably-factory-farmed meat jailed in a single-serving container with a plastic film top. This makes me wonder if Mrs. Q’s taste buds are quickly lowering their standards to adapt to the overprocessed, overpackaged fare. Among the pleasant lunch surprises she exults about: “The fruit cup was not frozen!”

Read an interview with Mrs. Q at MNN — and follow Fed Up to read and learn.

Earlier: Another beef recall and a closer look at school kitchens

Photos via Jennifer McCann/Vegan Lunch Box and Mrs. Q/Fed Up

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