Posted on 07/11/2013 5:01:19 PM PDT by yoe
School officials in Carmel Clay, Ind., said they lost $300,000 last school year because students are rejecting the healthy menu changes brought on by First Lady Michelle Obama’s federal lunch regulations....
[snip] Amy Anderson, the food service director for the school district, said the rules made her feel less like an educator and more like a “food cop.” The changes have even made her consider retiring early.
[snip] “They’re teaching our kids with this meal pattern that it’s OK to throw away,” she told JCOnline. “We did a waste study on three different schools, and there was a huge amount of waste. That was just with produce, fruit or vegetables or milk.”
Other students don’t eat the lunches at all, resulting in a $300,000 loss for the district.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Even students who pay “full price” for the lunch are paying less than the meal costs. Technically, all lunches are subsidized.
Well - here where I live - they are introducing Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches for students who’s parents don’t pay for their lunch bill...they will eat - but it won’t be the regular lunch! The ones getting free lunch aren’t affected.
I pack my kids lunches. My youngest says he will never eat govt. food, lol.
And just like that school district, we live in a nicer school district where if that was to happen kids would just be running down to Sonic or the other places near the high school. We are still not involved in Michelle’s meddling ways. I hope we stay that way.
As a Midwestern boy who grew up less than 10 miles from that district; all I can say to the mooch; she can shove her broccoli where the sun don’t shine.
Good for Carmel clay!
This is from the Carmel High web site but it looks like it applies to the entire district. This is very much a upper class area.
Carmel Clay Schools participate in the USDA School Breakfast and School Lunch Programs and must meet the meal pattern requirements. A basic meal provides the following items:
BREAKFAST
1 breakfast entrée
1 serving of fruit or 100% juice
1 Low-fat milk
1 serving bread/bread alternate
LUNCH
1 Low-fat milk
1 serving of meat/meat alternate
1 serving of fruit
1 serving of vegetable
NUTRITIONAL SCHOOL LUNCHES
Breakfast is designed to supply approximately 1/4 of the vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates and fat needed daily by the body. Lunch is designed to supply approximately 1/3 of the same nutrients. The nutritional value of the meals is evaluated over a period of days rather than calculated on a single meal or food item. Children are required to take a fruit or vegetable as part of the meal. This is required by USDA as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
The sale of Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value (FMNV) is prohibited in the food service areas during the school meal periods per federal meal regulations.
Parents are welcome to join their child for school lunch. Lunch requests can be made to your cafeteria manager or school’s front office staff. We discourage parents bringing in food other than a home packed lunch.
Exactly why McDonald’s quit selling salads and things like that. Nobody wanted them. Then that fat a** Moochele thinks she’s some sort of health guru and forces stuff she wouldn’t feed to her goat on kids that don’t want it.
But I thought the kids ate free meals at school in order to make it easier for the parent/guardian to sell their food stamps.
Feed is what food eats.
I love the new McDonald Burgers.
That’s what a high school math teacher friend said: “They throw it away.”
Kale for lunch at school...you’ve got to be kidding.
Another example of how socialism sucks.
My students eat at 1:15 in the afternoon, and they are given something like 4 chicken nugets,and fresh pepper strips, or cucumber slices.
It's not enough to fill a 7th grade student.
I would say about 1/2 my students pack their own lunches.
Be that as it may - I was just correcting the other poster’s misconception that all were free.
That she wants kids to eat more healthy foods, is wonderful.
That she goes about it by trying to force the healthy food down the kids’ throats (by means of government “regulations”) is indicative of the much larger problem in WashDC today.
The kids (and the rest of us!) are not (or not supposed to be) farm animals forced to eat what The Master says we must eat.
The kids at least have the good sense to say No.
I wonder about that....You have facts to back that up?
“but I don’t like beets. I’ve tried to like them ...’
Yeah, the Obamas might view Gitmo as a pilot project.
Thanks yoe.
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