TS. My kid my choice. period.
When are these government morons going to learn (or admit) that fat in our diets is good for us.
These controlling nitwits are still living in the 90’s.
Maybe we can appoint a “lunch czar” to help guide and direct all those incompetent parents who are sending their kids to school with sub-standard lunches! What about Michelle Obama? He’s not doing anything!
Many parents prefer to send their children off to school with a packed lunch, believing that the food they have given them is far healthier than school lunches
Without a doubt it is healthier. Why? Because instead of ending up min the garbage the kid actually eats it. A child can not be in school all day learning without eating. Not to mention that when they get home they will be so hungry that they will attack a bunch of junk food immediately
exceeded fat and saturated fat recommendations
As every health diet will.
The fat and saturated fat recommendations aren't just impossible to abide by, they are actively dangerous.
Sometimes I think it’s all just a big collectivist plot. Implement silly lunch dietary requirements, instigate a national debate about this and that, and then fill you childrens’ minds with the real food they want them to eat - socialism.
They need to check their definitions. Two thirds of school lunch vegies are thrown away, along with almost half of fruits. Increased serving of those foods does not imply increased consumption. It looks like the study, which claims no increase in "food waste", intentionally didn't look at which foods were wasted.
Food uneaten in the trash can has infinitely less nutritional value than a bag of chips.
Probably. But a highly nutritious school lunch that doesn't get eaten has no nutritional value at all.
Why on earth would any sane person not believe that this “study” reinforces the prejudices of leftists?
A hell of a lot of “science” does these days.
the packed lunch actually eaten has more nutrients than the school lunch that is thrown away uneaten.
A couple of PBJ sandwiches, an apple with a carton of whole milk seemed provide children with enough nutrition to make it though the day ...
I sometimes wonder what the first wookie got for school lunch... she seems to have not suffered for any lack of nutrition...at all...
This study is useless. It doesnt matter whether school or home prepared lunches have more nutrition, both are more than adequate. The kids aren’t at risk from malnutrition from either one. This isnt freaking Darfur.
Our two younger kids ate school lunch. It was fried chicken nuggets, french fries, etc. All junk food. They were healthy and very thin, but it was still a terrible lunch. Our older son always took his lunch that I packed for him. He took a sandwich, milk, fruit, dessert, etc. It was a much healthier lunch. I bought top quality ingredients. They all grew up healthy, all in their 30s, but those school lunches were just plain junk food. Like sub-par McDonalds stuff. When I was in school grades 1-4 we had the best school lunches. The food was fantastic. So it CAN be done. That was in the 1950s.
These idiots never learned anything from the lesson of prohibition and the War on Drugs. If people want something, they can and will get it. There are kids literally having underground junk food dealing empires in schools.
But fat and saturated fat have proven not to be the nutritional problems previously claimed,whereas energy and iron are both important.
If the kids refuse to eat what the schools are serving, the nutritional value of uneaten food means nothing.