Posted on 09/27/2014 12:32:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
First lady Michelle Obama said it was "natural" that kids are "grumbling" over new requirements for schools to fill vending machines and lunch lines with healthier food, but that it would not deter her from improving child nutrition.
"Change is hard," the first lady said in an interview with Channel One. "And the thing about highly processed, sugary, salty food is that you get addicted to it. I don’t want to just settle because it’s hard."
The first lady said she knew children "are grumbling because they have to make changes," and said her daughters roll their eyes when she forces them to eat their vegetables. "But I know that I’m doing it because I’m giving my kids the best that I know I can give them," Obama said.
The first lady also encouraged children to try "vegetables that have a little flavor, sweetness" to them like broccoli, celery and carrots.
"Don’t be mad because there are changes," she said. "Figure out why the changes are important, and then find out how you make it work for you."
New requirements for snacks sold in school vending machines implemented this year require food to be less than 200 calories, have less than 35 percent saturated fat, and have zero grams of trans fat. The switch has elicited some outrage on social media, with students complaining that some of their favorite treats are no longer available.
The swap has also given additional ammunition to congressional Republicans, who are pushing the administration to allow some schools to opt out of new, stricter school lunch requirements. The GOP lawmakers say the new regulations are driving up lunch costs for schools, and that children aren't eating food they don't like.
But the first lady dismissed those complaints, saying there was a way to serve food that was healthy and still tasted good.
"Look, I wouldn’t want to eat a nasty lunch either. Quite frankly, no one wants to eat bad food," Obama said.
She added that she did not "want to give up because it's expensive."
"I don't want that to be the excuse," she said.
Eff the Mooch.
Those aren’t healthier unless you are a schoolkid in North Korea!
I’d love to know what Her Highness’s BMI is. I’ll bet her posterior avoirdupois runs it up a bit. And she has the nerve to lecture the kids about eating their veggies.
Do these kids really want this kind of government to replace their parents when they graduate?
Imagine the food dealing that must go on at these schools.
she has zero authority to force schools or anyone else, to do anything. why they listen, i don’t know.
revolt. revolt big. let her have to eat these menus every day with no substitutions or extras for years and see how she likes it.
change is hard you fat ass mooch.
Ignore her, she has no standing to control what people eat.
Uh...Mooch. That isn’t ‘grumbling’, it is their stomachs rumbling. I just bet your little darlings are having it rough.
America is no longer a free country.
In the world of nutrition there are many opinions about what is healthy. Michelle Obama is not the holy arbiter. Saturated fats are good brain food, or just artery cloggers. Rice is bad white food or else wonderful gut bug loving resistant starch (if the rice has cooled at some point). Fats good, fats bad, carbs good, carbs bad. Vegetables should be raw and fresh. No, they should be cooked to remove the anti nutrients and healthy fat added to them to absorb the vitamins. Can’t we follow whom we wish on these opinions? Can’t we eat how we wish?
Sidwell Friends School
September 29, 2014
MS/US
Italian Bean & Kale Soup
Mediterranean Vegetable Salad
Strawberries, Goat Cheese & Spinach Salad
Cheese Tortellini
Garden Fresh Marinara
Fresh Pesto Cream Sauce
Steamed Asparagus
Garlic Bread Sticks
Melon
September 30, 2014
MS/US
Old Fashion Oatmeal
Sweet Wheatberry Salad
Breakfast for Lunch
Seasonal Vintner’s Salad
Cage Free Scrambled Eggs
Waffle Bar
Turkey Sausage
Roasted Herb Tomatoes
Crispy Bacon
Roasted Hash Brown Potatoes
Strawberries
Michael brown the gentile giant, now he was mad.
But it is affecting school lunches. To avoid it parents have to make their kids’ lunch and pack them off with it. Even then in some areas the kids’ lunches are subject to inspection and confiscation.
How about instead of regulating kids’ meals to starve them she regulates the insurance and tort lawyer industries? Together they have collectively resulted in the elimination of recess and playground time at schools. When I was in elementary school we had a 30 min. playtime before the school opened, then a 30 min. recess at 10:30 then a 45 min. recess after lunch and if we wanted we could stay after school and play then too. That’s 1:45 mins of playtime per day with minimal supervision. Kids were allowed to sign out play equipment and we made our own games. Nowadays at the local elementary schools the kids are allowed 30 min.s of structured PE up to twice a week. The playground is miniscule and playtime is given as a reward to the Pre-K and Kindergarteners, maybe one day a week. And elementary kids aren’t allowed to right bikes to school either anymore.
This why kids are fat moochelle. Lawyers and insurance companies have together created excessive financial risk to schools and municipalities resulting in the banning of recess and playtime.
An older article, but this must be going on everywhere:
LA school district lunch program spawns thriving junk food black market
First, she tries to control what people eat and, then, tries to control their reactions...
“Change is hard,” the first lady
Change was hard under Stalin too. Millions died of famine while he and his comrades ate like royalty.
Cram it up your 100 pound azz lady.
We are taking things away from you for the common good, now shut up and be good proles.
Lol.
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