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Pictures Of Some Oklahoma School Lunches Not Appetizing To Parents
News On 6 Local ^ | October 21, 2014 | by HAVONNAH JOHNSON

Posted on 10/22/2014 3:26:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

TULSA, Oklahoma - Some Oklahoma parents are concerned about how little their kids are getting to eat at school.

The portions were small but based on federal guidelines. Those guidelines are based on First Lady Michelle Obama's initiative to tackle childhood obesity.

“Chicken nuggets, with broccoli, beans and milk,” said student, Promise Fleming. “It was awful.”

Student, A'mika Ware said, “It's not fully cooked and it makes my stomach hurt.”

Their complaints are being heard loud and clear nationwide.

TPS's nutrition director said the meals teach kids how to eat well. "They can tell their parents ‘hey, I need to have milk to drink, I need to have fruit or to eat some vegetables,' instead of drinking soda pop and a bag of chips.”

Student Lov'ee Ware said, “I like healthy, it's just, I don't like it when it's, like, undercooked,” she said. “I'd rather, like, have pizza with an apple and some chips.”

The School Nutrition Association of Oklahoma is trying to appeal the existing federal standards.

(Excerpt) Read more at newson6.com ...


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KEYWORDS: homeschool; lunchlady; mooch; tyranny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Some Oklahoma parents are concerned about how little their kids are getting to eat at school.

Are they pulling their kids out?

Boycotting the school lunch program?

Packing lunches for school?

This isn't hard. At all.

Just pack a lunch. And if anyone gives them a hard time, give the kids little business cards that say, "You eat this crap."

21 posted on 10/22/2014 3:59:55 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Aurorales
Make the rules apply to kids that are actually fat??????

I was just trying to figure out how leftists think, applying their own statements. I don't agree with it.

I mean if the point were to reduce obesity, why don't they focus on the obese?

Of course the point is power and control. Not obesity.

22 posted on 10/22/2014 4:04:07 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: sagar

Many of the places implementing this in the most militant manner ban packed lunches, unless the food nazi inspects and approves.


23 posted on 10/22/2014 4:04:55 PM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: GeronL

“How about they just make these rules apply to kids that are actually FAT, while not counting the athletes muscles as fat?”

Why quite simply to avoid stigmatizing the child and ruining their self-esteem.


24 posted on 10/22/2014 4:14:11 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

My granddaughter is in pre-school. Yes, pre-school. She refuses to eat the Obama lunch but the school has a rule that if you pack a lunch it must be the SAME Mon-Friday. No changes. The policy is designed to eventually break the back of parents who opt out of the federally-mandated Obama lunch. It’s such a big problem they are looking for another pre-school.


25 posted on 10/22/2014 4:22:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://www.sidwell.edu/mobile/index.aspx?v=c&mid=375&t=Lunch%20Menus


26 posted on 10/22/2014 4:24:57 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

If you like your home-packed school lunch, you CAN’T KEEP IT YOU CONSERVATIVE MAGGOT!. Michele says so!


27 posted on 10/22/2014 4:29:41 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Maybe we should be glad Barry ain't in charge of food selection.


28 posted on 10/22/2014 4:38:19 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: All; Oldeconomybuyer

Lunch at Michelle’s daughters school:

October 29, 2014

Potato Leek Soup
Salmon & Cucumber Salad
Brazilian Salad
Grab & Go Sandwich Bar
Wings, Wings, Wings
BBQ, Teriyaki & Buffalo
Sweet Potato
Black Bean Bake
Sauteed Local Greens
Deep River Chips
Red Grapes


29 posted on 10/22/2014 4:44:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

TPS’s nutrition director said the meals teach kids how to eat well
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Kids, too eat well, don’t eat MO’s Meals


30 posted on 10/22/2014 4:55:31 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’re having chicken, brocoli, baked apples and milk tonight. Nothing wrong with that.

But, but what about the poor widdle kiddies who’s only meals are from school!!!!! That’s why we have to have free breakfasts and free lunches (paid for with our ridiculously high property taxes). And why we have to have summer lunches. Moo is starving the starving!!!!


31 posted on 10/22/2014 4:58:11 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: GeronL

I get ya.

Sorry I jumped on your statement.

You are correct. This is about control.


32 posted on 10/22/2014 5:07:05 PM PDT by Aurorales (I will not be ridiculed into silence!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I saw a program by Jamie Oliver who was trying to update a California school districts lunch program with healthy - well made and tasty food for the same price they were currently doing it for - the reactions he got from the Unions basically made him give up. While I am for parents feeding their own kids and not the state he certainly made a radical and good change to the sort of food being served up in English schools. What we do know is that kids palates are different from adults and any program that doesn’t take that into account is doomed to fail.


33 posted on 10/22/2014 5:09:25 PM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This was such a stupid idea from the outset. I seriously doubt any childhood obesity problem in the US could ever have been tied to school lunches. Better check what the fat kids are eating and drinking after school and on weekends. And better check to see how much exercise they get and how much time they spend playing video games and watching TV.

A typical, stupid leftist idea that applies the ‘solution’ to everyone rather than only to those who actually have the problem.


34 posted on 10/22/2014 5:13:08 PM PDT by Will88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Glad you posted their menu for the day at the Obama’s girls school. It speaks volumes when compared to the lunches of the average students promoted by Michelle. Seems like a story fit for a Fox News talk program.


35 posted on 10/22/2014 5:23:34 PM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brazilian salad sounds like a terrible euphemism.


36 posted on 10/22/2014 5:28:09 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That would make a good thread. Could post their daily/weekly/monthly menu and then compare it to other school menus around the country.


37 posted on 10/22/2014 6:01:14 PM PDT by CARDINALRULES (Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57 -- 6-22-02)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
My granddaughter is in pre-school. Yes, pre-school. She refuses to eat the Obama lunch but the school has a rule that if you pack a lunch it must be the SAME Mon-Friday. No changes.

Have your son/daughter pack her a different lunch.

If they confiscate it, have her/him write a letter-to-the-editor of the local paper.

They will back off from YOUR grandaughter, since they don't want to give up the federal money.

If they don't back off, she/he can be an ice pick in their ear.

They're taking your tax money from you by force, and forcing your grandaughter into their government school. They're holding YOUR grandaughter hostage.

If people roll over for such small potatoes, there's no hope of ever rolling back the almighty State.

I actually ran for school committee in my home town, in retaliation for 12 years in the schoolag archipelago. They couldn't stop me. I had a field day.

38 posted on 10/23/2014 4:57:54 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you can, I suggest going to the school and having lunch as much as possible with your granddaughter. Bring her lunch with you. And if they ask to see what it is simply tell them to go away as it is none of their business what you feed her.

I suggest a healthy amount of bacon! Bacon rules!!!


39 posted on 10/23/2014 5:20:27 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Texas isn't just a state. It's a state of mind!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
That little girl should remember to 'thank' the fattest ass in Worst Lardy history.


             

You Were Warned

40 posted on 10/23/2014 5:28:50 AM PDT by tomkat
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