[goodwithagun]

I understand. I was just trying to make a point as well. The thing that really frightens me is not the mandated school lunches, but requiring teachers to approve or disapprove of home packed lunches. If you choose to send a child to public school then their gubmint food is your problem. However, teachers are now required (not everywhere yet) to inspect home created meals and throw them out if they're “unhealthy.” I personally have issues with gubmint’s healthy caloric intake and food pyramid. My kids are skinny and they eat all day long. They eat a lot of healthy fats, complex carbs, and large amounts of protein. They eat many more calories than what Mooch is pushing, and their grain intake is low according to the pyramid. We also eat real food; i.e., no processed prepared items. We make just about everything, including tortillas! I'd be in jail if a teacher threw out my kids’ lunches! Full disclosure: I am a teacher.

[Gabz]

The thing that really frightens me is not the mandated school lunches, but requiring teachers to approve or disapprove of home packed lunches. If you choose to send a child to public school then their gubmint food is your problem.

Maybe where you live, but no such thing happens where I live. So how dare you tell me what I do or do not know about where my child goes to school.

However, teachers are now required (not everywhere yet) to inspect home created meals and throw them out if they're “unhealthy.”

You're right about not every where - in fact it isn't even most places.

I personally have issues with gubmint’s healthy caloric intake and food pyramid.

I've never paid it a bloody bit of attention.

My kids are skinny and they eat all day long. They eat a lot of healthy fats, complex carbs, and large amounts of protein.

So? My household is no different. I''mm 5'10" and other than when I was pregnant have never weighed over 130# in my life. I actually still own and wear jeans I bought in high school, and I'll be attending my 35th class reunion in September.

We also eat real food; i.e., no processed prepared items. We make just about everything, including tortillas!

So do we, and we grow much of it as well. My daughter is 15 and she and her friends love to help in the garden and canning with me.

I'd be in jail if a teacher threw out my kids’ lunches!

So would I.

Full disclosure: I am a teacher.

So are all good parents.