[Oldeconomybuyer]

[exDemMom]

Making food taste bland is always the goal of “health food” fanatics. The worse food tastes, the more healthy it is!

I am not certain that there is solid scientific data supporting low-fat, low-salt food. I believe a major study recently found that the overall death rate is higher in a group eating a low-salt diet, as compared with the normal-salt group. There is a strong physiological need for salt, and people all over the world eat about the same amount of salt. There is absolutely no reason to think that there would be a health benefit to limiting salt consumption below the amount that people spontaneously eat. We have a need for fat, too. I wonder if eating low-fat causes people to overeat to try to get the fat they need.

I wonder how much rebound obesity there is, resulting from kids absolutely porking out when they get home from school, still hungry after refusing to eat the bland options provided at school.

The article noted that many kids are now bringing lunches. That is good.

[MamaB]

The menu is listed on a local cable station. I was amazed that real food is still offered here.

[Timber Rattler]

School districts across the country, including those in Madison County, have had to increase the price of unsubsidized meals to make up for the added cost of serving healthier foods. Some districts, the National School Boards Association reports, have had to dip into reserves and other school district funds, delay purchasing new equipment and even reduce staff and their hours working.

[Flag_This]

Meanwhile, at Sidwell Friends, where the offspring of our "leaders" attend school:

Tomato Soup
Italian Pasta Salad
Classic Spinach Salad
Grilled Chicken Sandwich
White Bean & Rosemary Bake
Sauteed Fresh Green Beans
Sweet Potato Fries
Grapes

[papageo]

Now give Moochele a break. This is her way to contribute to the war effort. She has gotten the Taliban transfered from Afghanistan to your local school cafeterias.

[TomGuy]

In one of the previous threads about the school lunches this week, someone said that they were paying $3.00 per school lunch.

There is no way that the lunch in that picture (or the pictures of the crackers, slice of lunch meat, and cauliflour) should cost $3.00.

Maybe, districts should be investigated to determine where the money for lunches is actually going. Based on the various pictures of various school lunches, someone is benefitting.

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Bun 30¢, meat patty 50¢, half fruit 30¢, condiment packet 20¢ = $1.30.

There is no way it would cost $2.70 to prepare, fill, and wash the tray.

[Rodamala]

With mandates that they use no salt, butter or margarine, and that they offer the children no fried foods, that task can be difficult. Even the students' milk has limits: 1 percent milk if plain; flavored milk must be fat-free.

The only redeeming banned substance that is on the list is no margarine... but I am certain that they make up for that by adding soybean oil wherever they can.

The simple fact that whole milk is unavailable is outrageous.