Posted on 09/08/2014 5:36:32 PM PDT by Hojczyk
That means a lot of popular snacks are now off the table, including donuts, brownies, potato chips, full flavor pop, candy bars, and most other foods teenagers prefer. Even salt shakers and packets are now illegal.
At Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska, students who don’t have a regular lunch period often eat from the school’s café, which serves a la carte lunch food. Café manager Jackie Cambridge told KETV finding foods that fit the federal snack rules has “been just about impossible.”
Zipay told the news site lunch cooks have had the same problem, and can’t even serve a turkey sandwich to students because there’s too much sodium. There is now a two-slice limit on salami.
The snack regulations have also caused problems for school fundraisers in numerous districts because the regulations apply to any food sold at school during school hours. Cookies and other traditional bake sale fare is too fatty, or has too much sugar to make the cut.
Georgia recently allowed districts to apply for an exemption from the snack rules which essentially allow schools to sell food for fundraisers without regard to nutritional content during about half of the school year.
Nebraska apparently has a similar exemption process in place for school fundraisers for the next two years, but bake sale food likely will be banned after that, the news site reports.
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In the wealthiest nation on the planet, kids go hungry due to fat-*ss in the White House - who eats like a Budweiser Clydesdale.
Didn’t know that a Tic-Tac was a snack.
We couldn’t buy Tic-Tacs in school during my time, either. The late 60s-early 70s. But we had the most wonderful lunches - the smell that came out of the cafeteria made some of us who had small breakfasts absolutely crazy! I don’t think we had soda, either, although my memory is hazy about that. Milk, I think, or water. And we were all so thin as well...
I am soooo stealing that. BTT
bullshit. the federal government has no right to dictate school lunches? Since feakin’ when??
It’s long past time to tell the Feds, of whatever Agency, Department, or Bureau they came from, to go piss up a rope.
So why dont they just bring their lunch with the food they want to eat?
I dont get it.
So why dont they just bring their lunch with the food they want to eat?
I dont get it.
Good.
Kids walking around with tic-tacs reminds me of the Hatian Voodoo rattle torture.
I do that with my boys.
Give up the money and serve what you want.
Its not hard.
Where I live, bringing lunch from home is forbidden.
My Gym class was during the first lunch period, so I'd stop and get me a soft pretzel and a chocolate milk.
Gym was an hour, then I'd stay another hour and either run or lift.
Then I'd go to lunch. My favorites were either turkey tetrazzini or the open face turkey samich w/ mashed potatoes and gravy. The pizza was pretty good also. I'd always get a full lunch and something extra and usually dessert and always 4-6 cartons of chocolate milk.
On days that they had 2 of my favorites, I'd get 2 full lunches. (I usually had 2 trays of food anyway)
The lunch ladies knew what I liked, so on things like desserts or chocolate milk, they'd hold things in back for me, when they were getting low.
During this school lunch garbage, I've wondered what lunches that I enjoyed, would I no longer be able to get. I do know the chocolate cream pie or banana cream pie for dessert, would be off the menu.
(By the way, for all that eating, I was 5'-11", 185# with a body fat percentage of between 8-10%. I was eating everything in sight [at school and home] and couldn't gain anymore weight)
(that's all caught up to me now)
“During this school lunch garbage, I’ve wondered what lunches that I enjoyed, would I no longer be able to get.”
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A day or two ago there was a thread here about a school system that was enraged over the new rules.
One of their most popular lunches,grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup,was no longer allowed.
I could not believe it. When I was raising kids that was considered a superior lunch.
Madness.
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Oh yea in rural grade school most of the boys in 5th - 8th grade at recess slipped off down to the creek to smoke cigarettes. The principal also my 5th and 6th grade teacher sent me across the road every morning after roll call, devotion, and pledge, to the store to buy his 3 packs of Kent 100's. Yes I drank a coke while I was there. Oh the woes of my youth. LMBO
I don't get it.
I don't either. During my entire public school career, from the mid 1950s to the late '60s, I brown bagged my lunch. Never ate in the cafeteria. Bologna and peanut butter sandwiches, potato chips, Twinkies, etc. The only thing I ever bought at school were little cartons of milk or ice cream bars for 5 cents each.
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