[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Public Skrewels Nanny State PING!

[Sacajaweau]

The solution would be to close all the public stores and provide meals (in a bag) to every person.

All you have to do is to go to your government ration store...just like Iran, Iraq etc. Won't that be fine!!

How will we pay for it??

You will be required to join a local union in charge of regional work. You will be told what to do and when to do it. The government will furnish you with scrip at the end of the day.

[colorado tanker]

"We don't want healthy trash cans. We want kids who are eating this stuff,"

Uh, huh. I think your gonna get the former.

[pops88]

The article is down right disturbing. Food coaches? My daughter had a “food coach”- me. Good luck forcing kids to eat vegetables. One of things studied in my nutrition class was how to hide them or dress them up to get kids to eat them. And good luck with introducing them to new, culturally diverse foods. I can only think that the consultants to this program are affirmation action graduates that learned little about nutrition and children. Making a big issue out of food with kids also has the unintended consequences of producing eating disorders. I wonder if they’re covered under Obamacare.

[JudyinCanada]

Even her husband doesn’t like her healthy food. Give him a cheeseburger, fries and an ice-cream any day.

[workerbee]

If we're going to pay for schools to provide food, I really don't have a problem with it being healthy. There's no reason not to serve fruit, nonfat milk, etc. And I guess there's no real reason not to try and "up" the appeal of said healthy stuff. Of course, the all-time favorite kid food -- peanut butter & jelly -- can be healthy too, but we all know how taboo that subject is.

The problem lies in thinking you're going to "teach" kids this kind of thing in the roughly 20 minutes (30 max) that they have to stand in line, pay, get a seat, eat, clean up and return to class. If they haven't learned how to eat half-decent food early on and consistently, from whomever's raising them, all the healthy food in the world isn't going to make a difference. They'll make it through the day hungry until they get home (or wherever) to the junk they know will be waiting for them, and as said, nothing will benefit but the cafeteria trash cans.

[mfish13]

Since when did ribs and french fries become health food??

[longtermmemmory]

Michelle Obama does not look like she eats any of the puke she is suggesting as “food”.

There is a reason she looks like a wookie or they call her mooshel.

(cue the picture with the french president’s wife walking up stairs)

This is a likability ploy since Mr. Obama’s numbers are falling fast.

[MasterGunner01]

Fist, let's establish that Moochelle is a control freak of the first order.

Now, Moochelle’s profession, before she surrendered her law license, was a lawyer and ‘rain maker’ for the hospital where she worked.

At no time did she study as a nutritionist or dietitian. Therefore why should anyone listen to this totally unqualified woman what constitutes ‘healthy” eating. Her dietary competence works so well that her husband hits the nearest fast food restaurant at every opportunity.

[wildbill]

Easy answer. Slather everything with a vegetable puree’—Ketchup.

[sphinx]

Don’t be silly, folks. The target is obesity. The goal is achieved if the kids won’t eat anything ....

[bobo1]

if you want skinny kids, follow barry’s choom example. do alot of drugs, it will keep your weight down,

you will be too busy copping a buzz than to worry about eating.

might even try some “coke” too. & that is not a soda.

what a great example. please do not let our grandchildren to read his books.

let’s stick to the lives of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Lincoln, Reagan, et. al. (Adams, surely and alot more, i am missing alot here)

It would be totally disgusting to have our kids read about the obamanations early life.

blessings, bobo

[Still Thinking]

The Problem: Getting kids to buy Michelle Obama's healthy food

Probably easier to just get a new first lady.

[Still Thinking]

“You didn’t make that sandwich!”

[1035rep]

She has campaigned against obesity and has championed health eating.

But when First Lady Michelle Obama met celebrity chef Paula Deen she apparently ate like a horse!

The TV star told the Washington Examiner that she and Michelle had more in common than you might expect.

She said:

“She probably ate more than any other guest I’ve ever had on the show”

“She kept eating even during commercials.”

[RetiredTexasVet]

You notice the TV exposes never show the trash cans after lunch at those model schools. They show the kids (acting for the cameras) just loving the crap. Ask them off camera and you get a different story or better check the trash cans for the real story. If they were such great lunches, why do many of them ban the kids from bringing their own lunches? I know as a kid, I would be making a fortune selling black market Twinkies on the sly. Finally, I took peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school for 12 years. If we were lucky, we got a bologna sandwich every once in a while. We did have fruit and vegetables (from our garden) and the old standby 2 cent milk. Didn’t die, didn’t starve and greatly appreciated the extras when we got them.

[clearcarbon]

"The Problem: Getting kids to buy Michelle Obama's healthy food

She needs a good ad agency like the ones that use to push cigarettes and booze.

[ichabod1]

handing out samples of fruits and vegetables. The food coaches would also demonstrate eating them. Food coaching may seem silly, but kids who have had chicken only as nuggets or patties may not know how to eat bone-in chicken and need to see how a grown-up eats it before trying it themselves.

I don't see what the problem is. Just issue a decree that all children will eat their kale or their parents will face criminal charges--with the possibility of losing their custody of the community's cheerdrins.

[2ndDivisionVet]