Posted on 05/15/2014 12:00:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
New school food requirements are going into effect next year, attempting to make school meals healthier.
The changes will affect four major areas. First, The Smart Snacks program requires that all sides must be served with something healthy.
Second, the school will be required to meet the first target of reducing sodium.
Third, all whole foods served must be whole-grain. This year, the requirements are half-and-half. Finally, breakfast must include fruit.
This year, students are allowed to choose to refuse two items at lunch if they do not want it, and one at breakfast. New requirements say that they have to take at least one fruit at breakfast and one fruit or vegetable at lunch.
Each meal must include five components: grains, proteins, veggies, fruit and dairy.
"The reason for this is help kids make better choices," Said Rita Beebe, Cassville food service director. "We are here to educate them, and maybe it is something they will take with them through their lives."
By forcing students to take things they do not like, Beebe believes that the school will be feeding the trashcans, and she is doing everything she can to prevent it.
"When we make them take food, we start to waste because children don't want to be told to take what they don't like," Beebe said. "So, we have to be creative."
(Excerpt) Read more at cassville-democrat.com ...
So when the kids get out of school at the end of the day, they will head to the nearest corner store and buy themselves chips and soda. That’s what they do in my neighborhood. The little store across the street gets really busy after 3:00 pm.
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Then there is dinner, Pork, Beef, Polish Lasagna, Cheese Cake, Roasted Potatoes, Squash, with Butter and Brown sugar.
Baked Potatoes with Sour Cream and Butter, Mashed Potatoes with sour cream and butter.
As much as I try the brats are bone thin, I must be screwing up some where.
Please tell me that you are joking about all that milk, sugar and starch. The meat/protein sounds great, so does the butter and eggs-but all that sugar, milk, starch and the sweet crap on the veggies is not healthy-where are the green veggies? And milk is not a “perfect food”, with or without fat. I’ll defend to the death your right to feed your family whatever they want, but I wouldn’t eat that stuff or feed it to my family...
Their logic is so twisted, how can they make better choices, when they have no choice.
You are now beholden to the sow...
You will eat what your masters tell you to eat.
My Grandmother was one of twenty Kids in a farming community in Summit County Utah. They ate what they grew, but the problem was to get them to eat it, especality veggies.
Milk contains fats that are needed for Brain Development in young kids. Same with butter, bacon, beef, eggs,and pork.
Brown sugar and lemon butter sauce gets them to eat their veggies.
As my father said,” Grandma could get you to eat Poop.”
fat assed Moochelle is the most despised first “lady” ever.
Stocking up on bologna and cheese for next school year
... help kids make better choices... by forcing them to eat crap...
You mean they were “deemed passed.”
I’m a south Texas ranch kid-we ate plenty of free-ranged beef, pork, and chicken, eggs, steamed-but-still-crisp seasoned veggies with the butter put on at the table, brown rice, very little other starch. We did not drink milk after about age 10-12, but ate yogurt and cheese.
Honey was available, sometimes raw brown sugar but never white sugar of flour. I still eat that way-any other is not something I want to do.
Amen-make the kid’s lunch at home-my kid always liked the brownbag lunch, even in private school. Healthy home made whole grain sandwiches with real meat and real cheese, fresh tomato and avocado, fresh fruit-my kid wouldn’t touch Michelle’s crappy lunches...
Yes, and I forgot the quotes around “elected”.
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