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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They can have my band hoagie when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
just unplug and let the heat do the rest.
“Whatever is not forbidden is mandatory. So let it be written. So let it be done.”
Oranges are loaded with vitamin C I thought.
I know the acidic levels can be high though.
Is an RC with peanuts considered a combo food?
Potatoes have the same nutritional value as an ice cream sundae, which isn’t much. It’s more of a filler.
I used to believe you could survive eating potatoes too, but that would lead to all kinds of problems, weight being one.
Potatoes are very healthy. They have potassium, vitamin C, B6, iron, niacin, magnesium and a bunch of other vitamins that are needed to live.
And they have a huge amount of quickly-digested sugar.
A medium potato has 163 calories, 897 grams of potassium and meets 70% of the Percent Daily Value in vitamin C.
To get 163 calories of spinach, you need something over 23 cups, which gives you 3900 grams of potassium and 325% of the PDV in vitamin C.
There's a reason why people call potatoes and grains "empty calories".
Betsy Hunsucker is an idiot! Tho I'm kind of intrigued by her last name.
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.
This woman is delusional! Who's excited Katie? The kids? Maybe they think it's some sort of Science Project and they'll grow things.
"Hey Chuck! I just grew some kale, let's do lunch!"
ban government schools and all government . government is the enemy. the news media and democrat party are also the problem
If you made $100,000 per year after taxes then you could buy anything you could ever need in the free market because someone would produce it for money( look at the millions of products for sale on Google , internet , ebay , amazon,Walmart, Dollar Tree etc etc). So we don’t need government for ANYTHING. private industry created a whole city DISNEY WORLD in Florida. So democrats create fake crisis like “global warming”,”no health insurance crisis” to justify the very existence of government and the continued growth of government(socialism)
“Most berries are healthy, bananas and oranges are not.”
Bananas and oranges aren’t?
Does this mean that Zero and Moochelle will never be allowed to visit a school again? If so then I guess I would be for it.
The 4 main food groups...salt, sugar, grease, and alcohol.
sounds like it to me! Maybe we could start cooking up some SPUDNUTS! Anyone remember those, doughnuts made with potato flour! Yummy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spudnut_Shops
There was story in LA Liars claim that LA Unified School district are wasting 250 million dollar worth of food because kids don’t want eat fruit and veggies BY Law kid have eat the food or else no funding
Seriously that how they rolling in Los Angeles Unifed School district
Rots your teeth and takes up a huge amount of daily calories and sugars. Unless it is juiced on the spot and limited to about 4 ounces, it's no better for you than a 20-oz sodapop.
But for little white kids with Irish blood and hereditary thyroid issues, cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, kale, collards, radish, etc., are bad for the thyroid. Thyroid illness leads to very serious health disorders.
One of our primary schools was on local TV this morning. Third graders held a bake sale at the school during school hours and raised $1600 for one of their classmates who had to have his arm amputated. Money will go to family to help them pay for prosthetic device. Since this is in Texas and a still conservative suburb of Houston I can guarantee you that these baked goods contained lots of butter, eggs, sugar, chocolate and were not gluten free. Probably no nuts though since most kids don’t seem to really like them except for things which contain peanut butter.
Most of the kids in our neighborhood brown bag it for lunch but it’s for economic reasons and because their moms are good cooks.
Agreed: can support a healthy diet in many folks. The unhealthy part about french fries is the fat they are cooked in and the added salt.
There is no one-size-fits-all healthy diet, btw. Whole grains are overemphasized and are so agriculturally over-engineered at this point that they can cause food allergies and a variety of illnesses, including obesity. Many people have gluten sensitivity. Fruits contain large amounts of sugars, which the body can't distinguish from cane syrup in terms of how they are processed in the digestive system. Many kids have milk or nut allergies. Soybeans are disastrous for people genetically susceptible to thyroid illness.
Further, people from various ethnicities whose ancestors were fed or who avoided certain foods for centuries will react differently to them if they are forced to eat such things due to overregimentation of a standardized diet. This flies in the face of the left's much-vaunted multiculturalism.
Judging things by history, arson is the likely response.
With a good portion of the citizenry collaborating to make sure the arsonist is never identified.
With the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, and regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers, the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific powers to regulate either intrasate commerce or define policy for intrastate schools.
In fact, here's an official Supreme Court clarification that Congress has no constitutional authority to stick its big nose into intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. (emphases added)” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Also, note that the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in third-party federal bureaucrats like those running the USDA. So Congress has constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. And by establishing third-party regulatory agencies like the USDA, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 of Article I imo.
As a side note concerning the USDA, the Supreme Court had officially clarified in United States v. Buter, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate agricultural production.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden (emphasis added).” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So other than agricultural issues concerning interstate commerce, the USDA shouldn't be telling states how to run public schools or what's on the school's menu.
The only reason that I can see that citizens reluctantly respond "How high?," when federal agencies like the USDA shout "JUMP!," ordering citizens what to buy and dictating policy for public schools, is because parents haven't been making sure that their children are being taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
In fact, what's worse? An unconstitutionally big federal government, or "patriots" who don't bother to read the Constitution to be able to protect themselves from unconstitutonally big federal government?
Are we having fun yet? :^(
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