Kids Create Salt Black Markets in Cafeterias Due to Michelle Obama’s Lunch Rules

Washington Free Beacon ^ | June 24, 2015 | by Elizabeth Harrington

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules.

During a hearing before the House, a school administrator told Congress of the “unintended consequences” of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.

“Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food,” said John S. Payne.

“Students are avoiding cafeteria food,” Payne said. “More students bring their lunch, and a few parents even ‘check out’ their child from campus, taking them to a local fast-food restaurant or home for lunch.”

Payne also said school fundraisers like bake sales, have been canceled due to the rules, and “whole-grain items and most of the broccoli end up in the trash” in his district.

Dr. Lynn Harvey agreed that the whole-grain requirement is not working, as kids refuse to eat dense and dry biscuits, and “unpalatable” grits.

“When it comes to whole grain-rich variations of biscuits, grits, crackers and cornbread, all too often, students simply toss them into the trash cans,” said Harvey, who serves as chief of school nutrition services at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, which oversees lunch programs for schools that enroll 1.5 million students.

“This product dissatisfaction has contributed to a decline in breakfast participation in 60 percent of North Carolina’s school districts,” she said.

[azishot]

Holy cow! I thought those were pictures from an expensive restaurant until I noticed the "Sidwell" logo.

[cpdiii]

1966 Lockport, Louisiana

We all paid for our school lunches but it was subsidized by the state and even the poorest could afford it. High in carbs rice and beans but beans have high protein content. A small salad that most did not eat but I did.

I loved the days that they had olives in the salads as I like olives and most kids did not. I had more olives than I could eat. Occasionally we had fried catfish, everybody ate this and occasionally a good stew. There was always sufficient protein in the meals despite the high levels of carbs in the meal.

We ate it and did not throw it in the trash like with Michelle Obama’s meals today.

Question, who is doing the better job, Lockport, Louisiana in 1966 or Michelle Obama today?

Also note if a student walked through the line for lunch their was no id check, we did not even have ids. If a students parents could not afford the very nominal fee the student was feed. There were a few but not many.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

1966 Hays, KS 5th grade.

Mom packed fried egg sandwich for breakfast because we went to church before every school day.

Neighborhood ladies were the lunch ladies. Knew them all. Favorite lunch was “pigs in a blanket” which was a hot dog inside homemade roll served with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. The way to eat it was to get a bit of each on the fork. Pizza was good too.

I have no recollection of ever throwing away anything because my Mom drilled into our heads that there “were starving kids in Africa”.

Good times. Hope my grandkids will be able to have the same.

[Salvation]

Good for them.

[GailA]

You nailed it Cicero. I’m one of those on Sodium Restriction for health. I miss the taste, even after 6 yrs on the Restricted Sodium I find it hard to stick to it. Then you add in the fact doctors and dietitians don’t know how much you actually need as it is a individual body issue. Sodium intake is a ‘fine’ balance necessity. REAL sea salt is lt pink, lt grey or grey, it provides more taste, with less of the bad component. You get the better taste sans to many mg of sodium.

So is a reasonable amount of Cholesterol, your body needs it.

This is a NEW study.
Cholesterol : Dietary guidelines are wrong on saturated fats, claims cardiovascular researcher
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Dietary-guidelines-are-wrong-on-saturated-fats-claims-cardiovascular-researcher

Sodium is a tricky item, your body needs a certain amount, I know for certain Doctors and dietitian’s under estimate the amount your body needs, and it is by individual not as a average, but that is what we are getting told, yet those with heart disease, Meniere’s (Think VERTIGO that last a long time), I’m sure there are more, these are the 2 I’m most familiar with, are limited in the Sodium MGS amount they can consume. IF we eat out I have to request NO salt be added and salt my own as I know what it’s supposed to taste like. Took me 6 months of playing with it to establish what I accurately needed. Twice the amount they allotted. To get rid of the sick feeling of being under what my body required.

I call those liquid diets in the hospital a Meniere’s attack on a single tray. 1 bowl of choke a horse to death over salted broth, and a box of Ensure Clear (taste like Horse manure) contains all the sodium my body will tolerate for a day. I do NOT eat when in the hospital on those diets. Ditto goes for their Red and Yellow dye gelatin or pop cycles, I taste the chems and react to them.

Hospitals are now going to mooch’s diet plan. When a 20 yr Ret. SCPO won’t touch the crap you know it’s crap.

[Fitzy_888]

The unintended consequence of food stamps is juvenile diabetes. It’s what this is all about.

Consider, when you were twelve and your old man gave you $20 (or whatever) to go to the theater...you probably bought the junkiest food possible. Sometime later you were more mature and spending your own money, started shopping (mostly, not always) for better food. When you you grow up on and generational subsist of food stamps every day is a day at the theater. I see it at the convenient store around the corner from me, a jar of honey roasted peanuts for each kid...they like it, it shuts them up.

Correlate food stamps and juvenile diabetes...data you will likely never see...there in you see why we have the push from Michele, Bloomberg (soda size limits), etc. liberal’s best intentions are killing people...and they know it.

[GailA]

I carried a Bologna sandwich, or Peanut Butter, with a cookie mom made, to school daily from Grade school through HS. There were no cafeterias back then, all ate out of a brown sack at our desks, and got a 5 cent half pint of milk from the school. By HS there was the crap food from a cafeteria. My Bologna sandwich tasted better than any thing they fixed. With 4 kids, there was no money for school lunches when it could be fixed for a fraction of what the school charged. All we got was the 5 cents for milk. Mom had a real cooked dinner waiting for us when we got home.

[GOPJ]

On the bright side lots of those kids are going to grow up disliking leftist control freaks.

[GeronL]

They will be indoctrinated in time

[Cicero]

Yes, even good doctors are likely to underestimate how much salt you need. It’s a hard call. Once I was in the hospital for a lengthy stay, and I had my wife smuggle in a salt shaker, because the hospital wouldn’t give you any. I kept it in the drawer of my bedside table, and I think the nurses were prepared to ignore it as long as I made it clear that they knew nothing about it.

[GailA]

They think the IV supplies all you need. I absolutely hate having to make a trip to the hospital, what is so hard to comprehend I have very small veins child size, and when dehydrated they become nearly nonexistent? 22 gauge needles, butterfly’s or IV Caths. Go higher and you blow veins.

When I have to go to the hospital I have a ‘take along bag’, basic meds, and comfort items crackers, lip balm, Tylenol, etc. I’ve had to many BAD experiences with the idiots. I will be adding salt packs to it, thanks for that tip. I hide it under the clothing/grooming items in the larger bag. My usual stay is 3-4 days.

While I’m sodium restricted does not mean I’m sodium free. They swing from WAY TO MUCH with the liquid diet, to little when I get to the solids and they always bring crap I can’t digest, my diet is very bland and limited, Gastroparesis means I take nearly 4 hrs to digest what someone else digest in 1 hr. That box of Ensure Clear (taste like Horse Manure) is 15% daily sodium, add that to the choke a horse to death over salted broth and you just created another health issue for me. 3 x a day puts me way over my 2,500-3,000 mg limit. And yes I know when I go over, it will trigger a Meniere’s event, they are NOT pleasant.

I have 1 med Synthroid Name Brand that has to be taken on my body’s schedule, not theirs. I take it on a fasting stomach 1 hr before other meds or food. They BRING it after Breakfast with other meds and it is GENERIC which I’m allergic to. And they call themselves Medical Professionals and don’t know that simple factoid.

Hubby smuggles me food when I get to the solid stage.

Had to supply my own bed pillow at 1.