Posted on 01/27/2020 7:40:31 AM PST by Olog-hai
A Trump administration “loophole” in school lunch rules will allow for certain types of pasta to qualify as vegetables as well as for students to get more burgers and fries.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposals will continue to erode Michelle Obama’s legacy by easing restrictions on the types and quantities on fruit and vegetables put on the table.
“Pasta made of vegetable flour(s) may credit as a vegetable, even if the pasta is not served with another recognizable vegetable,” the new guidelines say.
The department said the changes will help to reduce food waste, because students were often given too much fruit and vegetables, which was thrown away.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said: “Schools and school districts continue to tell us that there is still too much food waste and that more common sense flexibility is needed to provide students nutritious and appetizing meals. We listened, and now we’re getting to work.”
The changes also give provisions for more à la carte meals, which can be things like pizza and burgers. …
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It’s called Macaroni and Cheese - and in the South, it IS a vegetable.
In Canada, it’s called “Kroff Dinner”
So.....trans-fat. ....?
Little plastic milk jugs. How sweet. And plastic cups....AND plastic dishes. There was a day when schools actually used real dishes.
Best Post of the Day!
“You’re right! Some pastas might identify as vegetables, making them trans-vegetables.”
That just made me wonder.....
If “trans” whatever is good by leftist standards, why the leftist war on trans-fats?
TRANSPHOBIC LEFTISTS!
HOW DARE THEY!
If parents can’t afford Peanutbutter and Jelly and two slices of white bread then they are doing something wrong.
I believe it was Ronald Reagan that (supposedly) ‘declared’ Sneaky Pete (Mad Dog 20/20 etc) an imported wine so EVERYONE could celebrate the inauguration in style.
Hooray! Spaghetti and beef-a-roni can make a comeback. The lunch room can become semi-popular again!
Michelle Hate-America O. Had a positive idea trying to serve kids healthier meals. But since they’re mostly being tossed in the garbage, it’s only wasting tons of food It’s better to let the kids have some of what they WILL eat than to keep trying to force them to ingest stuff they won’t
Yep. I oughtta know. My mom gave me a quarter a day to buy my lunch. But I pocketed it and washed those real dishes in exchange for my lunch. That was $1.25/week I saved up = about $40 for the school year. In those days (1959), that was fairly serious scratch for a HS freshman.
Why don’t they work on revising the curriculum rather than the menu.
Hey, why not both?
Bravo!!!!!!!! And lots of LOLs
I had the experience of eating at a Mickey D’s after this Trans-Human started controlling school lunches.
At noon, High school next door released hundreds of hungry students who descended on the place like locusts. Ate everything in the place like teenagers are wont to do.
Had an opportunity to question one of them who asked to share my table how the school lunches were these days.
“Garbage! They give use garbage to eat and we just throw it in the garbage and come here to get FOOD!”
Thus I asked, “Why get the school lunch food in the first place to just throw it away?”
“We are forced to go through the motions.”
I had the experience of eating at a Mickey D’s after this Trans-Human started controlling school lunches.
At noon, High school next door released hundreds of hungry students who descended on the place like locusts. Ate everything in the place like teenagers are wont to do.
Had an opportunity to question one of them who asked to share my table (polite teen...shocker!) how the school lunches were these days.
“Garbage! They give use garbage to eat and we just throw it in the garbage and come here to get FOOD!”
Thus I asked, “Why get the school lunch food in the first place to just throw it away?”
“We are forced to go through the motions. Unless you go through the lunch line, you are not allowed to leave the campus.”
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