Posted on 07/09/2013 8:52:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
We’re dealing with exactly these issues in the District I work in. My office is just across the hall from the person in charge of food service.
Apparently, another one of the brilliant changes we’re testing is the inclusion of Greek yogurt on the ala carte line. It’s a MANDATE that we include it.
Any idea how expensive that stuff is in comparison to the regular yogurt most kids are already not buying?
The last set of changes, that came out about a week ago, were 328 pages long. If you aren’t in compliance, your District doesn’t get the “free and reduced” subsidies.
Faustian bargain taking ANY money from the Feds.
How much of that finds its way back into her offshore accounts?
Let me guess. The company chosen to provide all these new meal plans s based out of Chicago?
Many laws do have a “sunset”....it’s just that the SUNSET is never implemented...
My Mom was one of those “lunch ladies”
The districts can opt out of the federal food program. Besides, they don’t get 100% federal assistance on the food program, so I am not even sure why they do it. A very small percentage of the school budget is from the federal level anyway. I am speaking of a suburban school district that serves 17,000 students.
Obvious solution: spend another few $billion and FORCE THE CHILDREN TO EAT THEIR VEGGIES! Put their parents in jail if they don’t. And make the fat ones run or send them to fat-camps. If any of them smoke....
First the kids. Then the adults.
We just need to be committed to the solution. Hope and Change.
Makes ya wonder:
"Why do we continue to allow it?"
Simple solution:
Feed the kids what they want.
Fill out the stupid forms and send them in.
Lie to the FEDs; for they LIE to us!
My kids’ school had to hire someone to comply with the program. He made a big deal about planting a garden and giving elementary school students tours - but he and his own son did most of the work in it.
Of course it costs more. The primary reason the old dietary guidelines were full of such crap is because the crap was cheap. Anything that is healthier will be more expensive.
And the thing is, the new guidelines aren’t much healthier. There’s still a depressing lack of animal fats in the new diet - which are absolutely essential in brain development. But if the dietary guidelines included sufficient saturated fats to be healthy, they’d be even more expensive.
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