SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Discover why it is that students of Silver Creek High School prefer home over school lunch!

Daily, students have the choice of choosing between bringing food from home or getting lunch from the lunch lines. It all depends on the preferences of what students here at Silver Creek enjoy best. 

More students prefer home lunch because it is more convenient for them. Students who bring lunch from home have a choice of choosing what meals to eat for the day. They prefer this because it tends to suit their appetite better than school lunch. Although school lunch is available and free, for everyone, you can’t choose anything you want. 

After searching for some students on campus, here are some that prefer either of the choices. The students listed are a few that either bring food or eat food from school. Jessica Pham, Yvonne Lai, Heather Nguyen, Monica Tran and Jade Hernandez. 

Pham mentioned, “I prefer home lunch because I can make my own food that I want to eat whereas at school lunch I don’t know what they will serve, and it doesn’t suit my appetite sometimes.”

“I like packing lunch from home because I have the choice of what I want to eat, and sometimes school lunch isn’t preferable for me,” says Lai. 

Nguyen alternates between both depending on how she feels. “I feel like school lunches can be somewhat good, but can also be very fake or just doesn’t seem appetizing. In addition to that, the lines are super long which makes me want to bring home lunch instead. It really just depends on the menu for me.” 

Tran also likes both choices, but she says “There are many times when I don’t have enough time in the morning to make my lunch, so I may want school lunch more. It comes in handy, although the lines are really long.”

“In the morning I’m usually running late, getting ready and it’s really annoying having to prepare a lunch. For convenience, I rather just get lunch from school because that way I don’t have to worry about preparing and getting something ready!” says Hernandez. 

Based on the majority of these students, it is shown that home lunches are preferred more than school lunches because you can choose between a variety of foods rather than limited school lunch options. So, when you look around campus, do you see more home lunches or school lunches?