Being in a Girls campus at Three Springs, the foodchoices weren't much better. At my facility, the counselors were expected to cook the meals. So if your group was struggling or having issues, you still had to deal with getting dinner on the table.
Food choices would be vegetables from a can, fruit from a can, hamburger helper, tuna helper, maybe chicken breasts, presorted salisbury steaks, presorted chicken fingers / fish sticks.
Snacks were never healthy and always were like moonpies or rice krispy treats, or a chocolate chip granola bar from quaker oats.
Breakfast items included: quick grits, yellow american cheese (like the kraft singles), individual boxes/bowls of cereal with only 3/4 cup of cereal in them because the cereal was ALL sugar like frosted flakes or froot loops.
Throughout all this food is one thing no nutritional value, only massive calories to meet the caloric intake required by the state. Everything had to be portioned out. A cup of hamburger helper a half cup of peas or greenbeans, a half cup of fruit from a can, and maybe garlic toast --- this was regular white bread with garlic powder in butter lightly painted on the bread and toasted in the oven.
Parents were encouraged to bring in extra food for their kid, only the counselors could ration it out as well as the parents (fairly) had to provide the same amount for each kid in the group. if a kid acted up we could withold this "extra". We were not allowed to withold regular meals, but the extra stuff people brought in we could.