Nation’s children push back against Michelle Obama-backed school lunch regs

The Daily Caller ^ | September 22, 2012 | Caroline May

[PennsylvaniaMom]

YOU MEAN CENTRALLY PLANNED, ONE SIZE FITS ALL...DOES. NOT. WORK!?!?

Color me surprised...but hey since this whole lunch thing is working so fine...why not let the same government workers manage our health care?

I’m going to wind up on the news some day. I have packed lunches for ALL FIVE of my kids (the ZipLoc folks send me a birthday card:). All have been student athletes; and my ‘baby’ is now a 6’1, 120 lb soccer & baseball player who can eat (and has) two McD Deluxe burger meals, quickly a d in one sitting. They have started “no food on the travel game bus” NOT because of litter, (or cost—our boosters/parents provide the food) NO its because of the “regulations” that ONLY school provided food can be served at school functions.

Oh really? Our soccer team travels well over an hour, there is a JV & Varsity game..and some nights I have pickedy kid up AFTER 10 pm—and he is not supposed to have eaten since noon! And played a soccer game. Coach “looks the other way” and everyone packs a second lunch & we send cash so if there is an open concession stand he also buy something—but here is the kicker (no pun intended)—even Concession stands at HS stadium are facing the draconian Madame O “standards.” It’s not just the kids complaining—this is spreading like a virus...infecting EVERY aspect of the school experience.

[ponygirl]

I always get this reply, “I have no time in the morning” Really no time, then don;t have kids if you want the govt to feed and raise your child.

You are so right. That is such a cop out. I spend my Sunday afternoons cooking up good, quick stuff for the rest of the week. Do a whole package of bacon on the griddle and box it up (it'll be good cold or warmed up), wash and rip up some romaine and store it in a bag, slice up some tomatoes, hard boil some eggs and keep them in a bowl in the fridge, put a couple of chicken breasts on the Foreman grill and slice them up... then in 5 minutes in the morning, toast some bread or just grab a tortilla and you can pack up a BLT, or a Chef's salad. Salads can be packed up the night before, just pack crunchies and dressing separately or they get soggy. I cook up batches of turkey meatballs and keep them in the fridge or freeze them.

It is so easy to make good lunches, you just have to plan ahead. And there are so many healthy convenience foods now that there's really no excuse - bagged salad mixes, even individual dressings, mini envelopes of tuna or salmon... I could go on and on. That stuff gets expensive though, so I just make up my own dressings, etc. If you go to Smart & Final, they have all the little containers.

I also do homemade Belgian waffles that can be frozen. Pop them in the toaster oven for ten minutes, shmear 'em with some almond butter and grab a piece of fruit and you're out the door. A cup of Greek yogurt, throw in some blueberries and granola and you've got a great, portable breakfast.

I got really good at packing my own lunch when I worked for an airline because I did not want to eat that plane food all the time. It's even worse for those flying now... they don't get served anything at all.

[Zeneta]

I would eat an entire box of cereal with milk everyday when I got home from school. (in one sitting)

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[bimboeruption]

Now THAT’S funny!

Thanks, I needed a good laugh.

[SledgeCS]

850 calories is not even a snack for a student athlete. When I was in H.S. (Grad in 1981), over little single A school was rated one of the best in the state for lunches. All made from scratch by the lunch ladies and very little got tossed out. The pizza were 6" square and about 1' inch think. They would always give extras to the athletes because they knew how many calories they burned. It was nothing to get 4 of the pizza squares, along with the other stuff served and a whole milk, not low-fat or non-fat for a whopping 75 cents and an extra milk was a nickle. And there was always extras free of charge once the line made it though, they always seemed to cook extra.

1 kid was overweight but he had been that way since elementary and so were all of his siblings and parents but he never did anything but eat.

I say this about the new government mandated lunches, "If they are so good and nutritious, serve them for the next state dinner and see the reactions of the foreign dignitaries."

[BykrBayb]

Here’s a site that discusses in detail the caloric intake of victims of Nazi starvation. http://remember.org/courage/chapter6.html .

“For an ordinary-sized adult, performing only sedentary activities, the minimum caloric intake needed simply to sustain the status quo is between 2,000 and 2,400 calories daily. This figure is the same whether one is German or Polish, Christian or Jewish.”

[pops88]

I emailed the teacher behind it and actually got a response back. As a pediatric RN, the guidelines/ regulations are ridiculous. The teacher indicated no one in the medical community has thus far voiced disagreements with the statement they’re making. I’ve watched the video numerous times and think it’s incredibly creative and well done.

[Eric Blair 2084]

“[The regulations do] limit the food that you can put on the plate,” Alden Caldwell, the director of food services at a Brookline, Mass. school, told Wicked Local. “In theory, it’s a good idea, but in practice we’re finding that there are issues with it.”
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That last sentence is exactly what I wrote in my college philosophy class when we studied Marxism 25 years ago to make the liberal professor happy.

[piasa]

Iowa mom Robin Wissink told TheDC that she now provides her autistic daughter Molly, a junior in high school, with a bag lunch because her school’s new menu is so unappealing. Students at St. Mark’s in Colwich, Kan. have also been “brown bagging” their meals.

Imagine that- Mooochelle Obama's school lunch program is backfiring- parents and kids might actually learn to be independent again, and take care of themselves!

[lgjhn23]

With a butt big enough for it’s own zip code, this wookie has no business telling anybody what they can and cannot eat.
Once the tainted finger of government touches something, the rot begins.

[itssme]

Absolutely agree with you. When I was in grade school in the late 40s/early 50s, the public school served lunch, and it was something I looked forward to, as a new adventure of “eating out” for a first grader. In Catholic grade school later on, we went home for lunch, where my Mom prepared us a sandwich, fruit and milk. In Catholic high school, they did not have a cafeteria, so we would either bring something from home, or we would go to the local greasy hamburger joint and buy a bag of fries and eat them on our walk back to school. No one was overweight, and we also played vollyball after eating our greasy fries during our lunch break, before classes resumed for the afternoon. Great memories.

Resist, do what you have to do, and decide for yourself what you will feed your children. Do not let the commie wookie in OUR White House tell you what to do...tell her to stay home and take care of her own kids, and mind her own business.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

To vote against it would’ve been racist since a black woman sponsored it. /s

[clearcarbon]

Apparently fewer school kids and parents are willing to get behind Moochelle these days.

[darrellmaurina]

82 posted on Mon Sep 24 2012 16:36:03 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by mom4melody: “I leave for work at 4:45am. I pack a lunch that includes a meat and cheese sandwich, salad or raw veggies and dip, dessert, salty snack and water for the kiddos before they ever wake up. Their father feeds them a good warm breakfast before taking them to school, before he goes to work. If we can do it, so can others.”

First off, good for you taking charge of your children's meals. That is the job of parents, not the government.

Second, however, you may want to ask if there's refrigeration available for the sandwich, or if you can include something in the lunch box to keep the meal cold. Having meat sit in warm or hot temperatures from 4:45 a.m. until noon may not be a good idea.

But that's your decision as parents. Government needs to stay out of it.

[pops88]

“Second, however, you may want to ask if there’s refrigeration available for the sandwich, or if you can include something in the lunch box to keep the meal cold. Having meat sit in warm or hot temperatures from 4:45 a.m. until noon may not be a good idea.”

My daughter had a year of a school day being from 5:30 am- 4:00 pm thanks to being in a special program. I worried a bit about refrigeration as an RN, then had the revelation that a lot of what we’re told by the USDA is nanny state crap and the chance of her getting ill was extremely unlikely, especially since her meat sandwich was eaten at lunch. It wasn’t baking out in the sun and was pretty well insulated in her backpack or locker. I never packed her tuna fish salad though ;)

I swear that year I practically had to pack a grocery bag, and packed extra because her special program was in one of the worst schools so “No Child Left Behind” guidelines could be met. She might have been the most popular kid at lunch. She confessed she regularly traded half her sandwich to the highest bidder. Her daily pack included a meat sandwich with cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayo (grain, protein, dairy, vegetable and fat), a fruit (grapes were easiest), a mini candy bar (so she didn’t felt denied/deprived/forbidden), a prepackaged fruit cup treat, healthier chips/ crackers for snacking on the bus, some packaged cheese, and probably other things I’m not remembering. I think she traded a good portion away for Twinkies, but she’s still skinny as a rail. As a pediatric RN, these guidelines are just ridiculous.

[RWB Patriot]

Haven’t you heard? According to dear leader, there are no individuals, only collectives.

[Uncle Chip]

A Children’s Rebellion!

Wouldn't it be wild for school kids to start petitions and sit ins and marches --

Occupy Cafeteria.

[Uncle Chip]

I seem to remember (correct me if I am wrong) that the evil planners of Auschwitz had calculated their prisoners to 900 calories a day.

ooops -- Godwin's Law -- go sit in the corner.

[SteveAustin]

The GOP needs to start an ad campaign based around this lunch fiasco.

Remind the voter (ie soccer moms) that this loss of lunch freedom is a preview of what is coming with Obamacare.

There is a powerful issue with a key voter demographic just sitting here under the surface. Will we be smart enough to tap this?

[left that other site]

I would love to see that!(He He He)

“Goodwin’s Law” doesn’t apply to me...I never voted for it, nor was it enacted by any of my elected representatives! LOLOLOL!