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Between them, Kristin Richmond and Kirsten Tobey have worked on Wall Street, traveled the world and taught school from East Africa to Ecuador. Now they make lunch for a living.

In January of 2010, an elementary school teacher decided to eat school lunch every day for a year and write about it anonymously as Mrs. Q. on her blog, Fed Up With Lunch.

Critics say a government plan to cut back on potatoes and sodium in the federal school lunch program will result in meals children will not eat.

After weathering the patriotic fervor that led to "freedom fries" when France opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the humble spud is now getting mashed for its impact on the school lunch program.