Posted on 01/15/2015 5:27:23 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing strict new dietary guidelines for day cares that would prohibit them from frying food that is served to children.
Child care providers would also be formally required to provide children with water upon request, though they would face restrictions on how much apple juice and orange juice they serve.
The proposed nutrition standards are intended to promote the "health and wellness of children" at day cares that participate in government-funded meal programs, the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service said Wednesday.
One of the more notable provisions would restrict day cares from frying food on site and discourage them from serving pre-packaged fried food, such as chicken fingers, from the grocery store.
"While facilities would not be permitted under this proposed rule to prepare foods on site by frying them," the USDA wrote in the Federal Register, "store-bought, catered, or pre-fried foods can still contribute large amounts of calories and saturated fat to a meal. Therefore, facilities are encouraged to limit all fried and pre-fried foods to no more than once per week."
Another provision of the rules spells out that day cares must supply drinking water for children.
"Daycare homes must make drinking water available to children, as nutritionally appropriate, throughout the day, including at meal times," the USDA wrote.
The USDA's meal standards also include other proposed changes, such as allowing tofu as a meat alternative.
The public has 90 days to comment.
Nanny State PING!
Why are they doing this instead of protecting
agricultural products from Islamic terrorists
who infect them with E.coli?
All your liberty are belong to us!
IMHO Stop the juice period....Give them milk....whole milk with graham crackers. Builds bones and bodies.
This is why I'm getting more Libertarian. I don't like the government getting into the lives of citizens.
I didn't even know that the government even had government funded meal programs for daycare.
I guess that explains why daycare has gotten so expensive.
And now it looks like it is going to get a lot more expensive.
Nothing more than government extending its control out where it should not.
And for fruit apple slices (like the ones served at McDs) or pear slices are nice choices.
A federal regulation shouldn't be necessary.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing strict new dietary guidelines for day cares that would prohibit them from frying food that is served to children.
They are not your kids. Butt out.
“IMHO Stop the juice period....Give them milk....whole milk with graham crackers. Builds bones and bodies.”
My granddaughter’s daycare serves nothing but milk and water along with brown rice burritos, lasagna made with low fat cheeses, lots of veggie sticks and fruit. The lunch menus are excellent and the food is far cheaper than processed chicken scraps and fat along with sodium laced pressed meat products, carbs and junk that some daycares serve.
The pre-fried slabs are expensive.
The parents need to step up and demand better.
Hey, Mikey, you have competition!
Skim milk may not be all that tasty, but it lacks the fat that over weight kids don’t need. Graham crackers are pure sugar and carbs that turn into sugar and go on the hips.
Then you have allergy issues. Digestive issues to deal with. I read labels on every thing I buy, for sodium, sugar, protein, and cholesterol.
Nursing homes are next. Food is already crappy.
Those Meals in a Bottle have 35% of your daily cholesterol, 15% sodium, to many calories besides tasting like cardboard.
No Juice for you!
Most excellent!
Thank you
may the rising tide lift all boats
> ... tofu as a meat alternative.
93 percent of all soy is genetically modified.
What is better for you meat or GMO soy?
I KNEW this was about juice boxes and chicken nuggets.
They’re easy and kids like them,
therefore the feds MUST come down on them.
Vegetable juice is lower carb.
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