Some parents are not alone.
Settled.
Posted on 05/03/2019 8:25:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — Parents and schools are reacting to the Trump administration's rollback on school lunches.
School lunch menus will be remade nationwide. President Donald Trump rolled-back an Obama-era mandate that required schools to only serve whole-grains, along with more fresh fruits and vegetables. This change affects millions of children.
Cafeteria operators say the mandate made costs higher. But some parents here in Des Moines feel getting rid of the mandate is wrong, and they're not alone.
"I guess it's upsetting or annoying if we're not doing what's best for our kids," said Courtney Starbuck, a parent at Hubbell Elementary in Des Moines, adding that she relies on the school to provide her 7-year-old, Audrey, with a healthy meal. "The schools are just a place I can trust that my daughter is being well cared for, including her health and well-being and nutrition."
Starbuck is not alone. "I want my kids to be having healthy foods. I don't agree with it," Des Moines parent Jessica Styron said.
Des Moines Public schools serve 36,000 meals every day. In a move that surprised parents, the district announced it will continue to *honor the whole-grain mandate.
(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...
School lunch early 60s
2 slices of white
No mayo because it might go bad
A smear of yellow mustard on the bread
1 slice of bologna
1 slice of american cheese
Stick em together
Wrap with wax paper
Stick it in a brown paper bag with 1 small apple, a napkin, and maybe a small box of raisens.
If it was just after Halloween... 1 ration of candy.
3 cents for your carton of milk.
Or pb&j
Or if mom made meatloaf for dinner the night before... a cold meatloaf sandwich!
And there you have it.
BTW dad got the same lunch for work.
And I still eat lunch like that. Milks more expensive though.
My kids only “bought” lunch on pizza day. Otherwise they preferred a bagged lunch from home. But there is NOTHING stopping this lady’s school or the Des Moines school system from mandating the lunch she prefers.
Exactly. They found a couple who grumbled so they could report negatively on it. The kids weren’t eating the garbage (gruwel) anyway.
I was stunned to hear my co-workers talk about dropping their kids off at school so they could eat BREAKFAST there! Really?! There is no time to eat at home any more?
President Trump could have some fun with this. Only give the Michelle Obama menu to poor children on government aid. Those kids whose families don’t get aid can have food that tastes good.
The idea is like workfare. If you’re on the dole, you have to eat health food, like kale, tofu and bean sprouts. Maybe even an all vegetarian meal “to save the planet from global warming.”
You’re poor? No unhealthy junk food for you!
I have a child who has lived through the transition to the Obama lunches. Many kids eat very little because a lot of the food is processed to death and appears unappetizing. The food that was mandated by Michelle Obama to be served to the kids is either not being eaten, or just plain thrown away.
Let’s just get back to good old-fashioned home-cooked food, from real ingredients, that the kids really like. I guess I was fortunate growing up in a smaller school district where there were actual cooks in the kitchen (those ladies really had it ‘going on’) and managed to put out homemade pizza, chicken, turkey/potato/gravy dinners, etc...
Oh...there’s time...they’re just lazy and not so great parents
Some parents are not alone.
Settled.
Feed them liver and broccoli. Can’t bitch on nutrician. Watch them all suddenly bring lunches.
Am I wrong, aI thought you that it was only the mandate that was eliminated, who said they couldn’t keep their current menu until if they wanted. As I see it Trump just put the decision back in the hands of local schools.
Yes!!! Packed my own lunch for years. We couldn’t even afford to pay the nominal fee for the school lunch.
If they were really concerned about their kids linches these parents could make them healthy lunches they deemed acceptable.
Oh but mom and dad can’t cook for crap...
Oh but they can’t be bothered to make up lunches...even though they talk about how precious their snowflake is...
Good grief!
POTUS took down an Obama dictat, he didn’t impose any new mandate, That means whole grains, crunchy kale, and dried insects are left to the locals to have at it.
Thank you, they are just liberal indoctrination centers.
If they aren’t eating the lunch its far more unhealthy for them than eating food that has some nutrition in it.
[[”I guess it’s upsetting or annoying if we’re not doing what’s best for our kids,” said Courtney Starbuck, a parent at Hubbell Elementary in Des Moines]]
That’s your job, sweetheart.
When libtards do it its restoring.
When conservatives do it its a rollback the clock.
Language frames the debate. Dont accept their bs.
Unbelievable isn’t it.
[[I was stunned to hear my co-workers talk about dropping their kids off at school so they could eat BREAKFAST there! Really?! There is no time to eat at home any more?]]
Its called free sh**.
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