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Posted on 04/11/2014 7:35:56 AM PDT by matt04
School leaders are getting ready for a big change in school food service.
The USDA’s Smart Snacks in School rules go into effect July 1, 2014. In short, all “junk food” in vending machines, a la carte lunch, student stores and fundraisers such as bakes sales is banned July 1st.
“I think that’s great!” said Betsy Hunsucker, a Brownsburg mother. “I think kids would love fruits and vegetables.”
Fruits, vegetables, dairy, protein-rich foods and whole grain-rich foods are allowed.
Water, milk and 100% fruit and vegetable juice is permitted. High school students can have caffeine and low-calorie carbonated drinks.
There are also rules when it comes to nutritional values like calories, sodium, sugar and fat.
“I’m afraid that parents have spoiled their children so much with the choices that they allow them to make at home that the kids will turn up their noses to the nutrition,” said Hunsucker.
Some schools, like Brownsburg, have already started. They have been compliant with grades K-5 since Christmas break, and have been slowly introducing older students to items like baked chips.
Katie Sherven, the Director of Food Services for Brownsburg Schools, says they’re really excited about their plans to put a Garden Bar in all of their schools next year.
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Ingredient Rules Any competitive food sold must be a:
a. Fruit
b. Vegetable
c. Dairy product
d. Protein-rich food (meat, beans, poultry, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds)
e. Whole-grain rich food (first ingredient is a whole grain or product is 50% whole grains by weight)
f. Combo food that has at least ¼ cup fruit and/or vegetable
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no more bake sales as fundraisers
what a stupid nanny rule
guess the booster clubs will sell apples
I posted a pic on Facebook today of what Mother Obama approves as a healthy breakfast, and I’d post it here if I knew how. Today students at my school were served a cinnamon goo filled pretzel stick with the choice of low-fat milk, low-fat chocolate milk, and juice made from fruit of questionable origin. The pretzel stick contained HFCS and artificial flavors and colors. But fear not! It was 51% whole grain!
I don’t feed my kids this crap. They eat my homemade, 100% whole wheat bread. A lot of our food is from our garden. We buy meat and eggs from a local farmer who does not use corn, antibiotics, or Roundup. That’s my choice. I’d never push it on somebody else.
At the same time, most of our students’ parents (read moms and grandmas) are obama voters. They are getting what they deserve, but they are too ignorant to understand this.
Starting civil disobendence early in life.
Kids will simply get around this.
Most likely will take place off school grounds.
LOL!
There are two big problems here.
One is the food which is being banned by Obama’s program.
The other big problem is the idea that the federal government has such control over what local schools feed kids.
Back in my day, the elementary school didn’t even have a cafeteria. You were required to bring a lunch from home. Maybe that was a better system, than this idea that because the schools receive federal funds for lunches, that they then must comply with all sorts of ridiculous regulations.
It is rather impressive that, in less than 3 seconds, this woman eliminated any possibility that she possesses even average intelligence.
Unfortunately there are far too many "Betsy Hunsuckers" in this country. People that suffer from either terminal stupidity or terminal naivety (aka low information voters). That's how Obama got elected...twice.
My mom went on a health kick during the hippie granola 70’s.
She purged just about all foods with processed sugar from our house.
In the long run, we are all the healthier for it.
And I’m sure she would have loved to have found a way to keep her kids from consuming junk food at school.
But she would have never, ever endorsed the power of the Federal Government being abused in this way.
Is this to push the genetically modified foods like that chuck shummer gmo yogurt?
what do gmo’s do to developing bodies?
How much more out of touch with reality can you get? I'm all for wishing my kids would eat healthier, but they are kids ya know.
Just boycott the vending machines and let the perishable foods therein....rot.
Yes, they are.
Potatoes are very healthy. They have potassium, vitamin C, B6, iron, niacin, magnesium and a bunch of other vitamins that are needed to live.
In fact a meal of potatoes, green salad and buttermilk is enough to provide all the nutrition you need to live on.
Which is why so many people starved during the potato famine.
You may not eat it but that does not mean it lacks in nutrients.
While I’d recommend we all eat healthy foods, local school cafeteria menus are absolutely none of the federal government’ business! It is gross excesses of authoritarianism like this that cause so much of the troubles we have in America today.
My daughter said that politics didn’t matter, it didn’t affect her. I said it was government decisions like this that put the coke machine off limits and turned the cafeteria food to crap.
***guess the booster clubs will sell apples***
Well they better have a thick caramel coating on the outside and a stick to hold it by.
Caramel, slightly burnt sugar and milk. A product of the vegetable (cane sugar or sugar beets) and milk, DAIRY!
A blessed sacred food! Bet the nanny state won’t see it that way.
The bake sale thing gets me, as many here on FR might bake for these things it is fun to do and give and now it is another action by this administration to take away volunteering in relationship to food to get more people on the teet of Guberment. Horrible it is...
No one has mentioned the best nanny foods!
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