Posted on 10/08/2014 10:10:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
BURLEY, Idaho – Burley High School has seen a 25 percent decrease in participation since changes to the National School Lunch Program went into effect.
Michelle Obama hand on student 337x244Those students now “bring sack lunches, dash off campus for fast food or skip the meal altogether,” according to the Times-News.
“It was not edible. It was a greasy little hot pocket,” parent Steve Wells says. “When we were little, everything at school was homemade.”
The school lunch “doesn’t taste as good,” student Ana Inzunza tells the paper. “It’s missing flavor and tastes plain.”
“There are a lot of challenges,” Cassia County schools food service director, Angela Rodriquez, says of the new rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
“The students have noticed there is not as much flavor in the food.”
Meanwhile, students in Austintown, Ohio aren’t faring much better.
“Kids can’t take two ketchup packets [for burgers] because that would set them over on calories” for that condiment, Natalie Winkle, district food-service secretary and assistant tells The Vindicator.
The district’s food service director says costs are up and revenues are down.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana parent Janina Martinez is concerned, too.
“And as the years progressed, I seemed to be sending lunch more often for both Daniela and Alex,” Martinez says, according to 225BatonRouge.com.
“One time she came home and told me about the chicken jiggling like Jell-O.”
The news site continues:
It was eye-opening for Martinez, but she says she really started to wonder about the food when Alex came home and exclaimed, “Mommy, they managed to mess up the pizza. The pizza!” …
To meet the new mandates, the school district removed hot dogs, chili and macaroni and cheese from its menu, opting for more beans and burritos. It also changed its buns from white to whole wheat.
“The National School Lunch Program has enjoyed years of steady growth, but what we’re now seeing is a lot of waste, mostly with fruits and vegetables,” School Nutrition Association spokeswoman Diane Pratt-Heavner tells the news site.
Many students are finding the food inedible.
“The chicken, sandwiches and burgers and even the pizza crust” didn’t taste right, Huntington County, Indiana student Matthew Karst tells the Journal-Gazette.
“For example, they had biscuits and gravy for lunch. I look at the biscuits, and it’s a whole grain. I took one bite of the chicken patty and it was so disgusting, I couldn’t finish it.”
Candice Hagar, director of nutrition services at Fort Wayne Community Schools, tells the paper she’s seen more waste this year because her schools are serving more things that kids don’t want to eat.
“There’s nothing I can do about it,” Hagar says. “I do need those reimbursements from the federal government in order to feed my children.”
At Matanzas High School, in Florida’s Flagler County district, the News-Journal reports the students can, “Forget mystery meat. Students are discovering mystery vegetables in their lunch line now, and they can’t check out without loading up on them because of increasingly strict federal rules that tell cafeteria workers what they must serve — and what’s forbidden.”
“I think it all goes in the garbage,” a 17-year-old student tells the paper.
Contradicting the rhetoric of proponents claiming lunches are now less processed, the paper reports:
The school still sells sandwiches and wraps, but they’re pre-made for the students, which allows cafeteria workers to ensure that every meal meets federal requirements.
Student Lindsey Ryan summed up the point of all of this: “Forcing us to put broccoli on our plate is not going to make us eat it.”
Or, to put it another way:
i would put a panda express in every school
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To meet the new mandates, the school district removed hot dogs, chili and macaroni and cheese from its menu, opting for more beans and burritos.
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OK so the illegal alien kids at the border this past summer got sick eating hotdogs and had to have beans and burritos instead..
so why are they giving beans and burritos to American children who will get sick if they don’t have the fare they are used to, the hotdogs, chili and MacNCheese ???
MacNCheeese is normal for my grandkids..I make it just for them when they are coming to my house..I have one who would eat nothing else if given the option...
they never have asked for beans and burritos..
I’ve seen how “successful” Moochelle’s program is in the school district I worked in. A 220 lb football player gets the same portion of lunch as a 90 lb cheerleader. Go figure.
Setting aside ‘whether school lunches’ for a moment, this issue speaks to me of government overreach better than any other. This mandated from on high attitude astonishes me.
Like a county school district, a PTA/PTO full of mothers, and the five old grandmas making/serving the food don’t have the wherewithal to determine a suitable menu.
My American children eat beans and burritos happily. The Mexicans I know eat hot dogs happily. I am not big on hot dogs and wouldn’t eat them in a school cafeteria. My children might eat them depending on the day.
More pre-packaged, starchy processed food-just what the kids need to be healthy...
My cub preferred brown bagged fresh food with plenty of protein from home, even at private school...
Back in the mid ‘60’s when I was a pup, in a large metropolitan city in the Midwest in a school that had 1st grade through 10th grade an average lunch was something like:
1 fried chicken breast (or 2 other pieces)
1 serving Mashed potatoes w/gravy
1 serving Yellow corn
1 Biscuit
Lime Jello W/ 1/2 pear
1 cookie bar
Whole milk
Other days we had equally kid friendly menus, and we had few overweight kids and nobody threw anything away. My parents paid a reasonable amount with 4 kids attending at the same time - but with cold temps in the winter it was great having a hot lunch. in the warmer months I brought sack lunches and that worked too. With Moochelle’s new North Korean School lunch menus I have to send my teen off campus if he wants something besides the new 1/4 ration. All of the kids hate Moochelle, though - so I guess the liberals are creating a generation of people who will look back and think - how stupid these people are. One can hope.
“Kids can’t take two ketchup packets [for burgers] because that would set them over on calories [for that condiment]...”
However, they can have all the free condoms they want!!!
Fresh cooked beans are a good protein source, as are homemade meat burritos, and homemade chili-not that canned or prepackaged stuff that is full of chemicals and preservatives.
I don’t eat hot dogs, but my husband did-it is processed mystery meat, but really not as bad as some of the other stuff served in school. Mac and cheese, homemade or not has never been served in my home-starch and empty calories, except for calcium in the cheese, but a lot of people do eat it, and that is up to them-not Michelle-I really want her out of our plates and kitchens-let everyone eat what they want...
Too much starch and sugar-that is why my mom packed our lunch, although I did not see it that way until I was about 14, got interested in boys and started noticing that some of my female friends were already overweight...
But only Lo-Cal condoms!........................
That alone should be able to get an emergency injunction against these insane communistic student-destruction food control rules on the grounds of starvation.
Every single parent in the country should refuse to send their child to school until these rules are dumped.
It want all that long ago that that would have been the reaction, too. But with over half the mommies and daddies on Prozac, well, is just not something to get excited about...
....and fish sticks on Fridays!..........
Most of the girls in 1966 were doing everything they could to get curves - they had nightmares of being called “stringbean”. From a male perspective - I kept a 29 inch waist into my mid-thirties and continue to go by the old Latin adage “All things in moderation”.
You said it!
I did like the Weds lunch - it was a big bowl of hot chili, crackers and a humongous cinnamon bun. Then outside for a 40 man snowball fight!
I weigh the same as I did at 17-I envied girls who had real boobs, but then I found out there are guys who like women with a more athletic form. I never envied the plump girls, though-guys were not that interested in them.
I was raised on a ranch eating natural food, and I still eat that way...
At my school in Alaska, every Friday we had broiled halibut (pretty abundant), with a lightly breaded topping and melted butter drizzled over, about an inch thick squares that were 3 1/2 inches on a side. It was so good the school district administration would send a car over to pick up lunch for their office each week.
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