Students at the University of Minnesota are up in arms about their school dining hall menu, which has reportedly been limited to pizza and Lunchables.
Despite paying $2,500 per semester, students at Minnesota’s flagship university said the available food options are not meeting their dietary needs.
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One student, a vegetarian, told the local CBS News outlet that the available food options for her were especially limited and that she had resorted to buying her own lunch.
“We’ve been getting Lunchables and pizza — that’s about it,” another student told the outlet. “I need more than a Lunchable to fill my diet.”
In a statement to WCCO, the university said it was dealing with staffing shortages and had thus been forced to cut dining hall hours, which affected the available services.
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The Lunchables, the school said, were near their expiration date and were put out for students to take for free, not as alternative meals.
“In this case, the product was nearing the expiration date and a well-meaning employee placed them out for students to take for free rather than simply having them expire, but didn’t mark them as such to make it obvious,” the university said in a statement. “All the Lunchables had been claimed before a manager arrived to address the situation.”
