Posted on 08/04/2014 11:28:05 AM PDT by Nachum
Put Down the Cupcake: New Ban Hits School Bake Sales a Wall Street Journal headline warned. The Daily Caller blamed the first lady: Michelle Obamas Meddling In School Lunches Now Causes BAKE SALE BANS.
But no, the government isnt waging a war on brownies. School bake sales havent been banned as some recent headlines have suggested. Nor does little Johnny have to bring carrot sticks instead of cupcakes to share with classmates on his birthday.
New rules requiring healthier foods in public schools took effect July 1 as a result of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act passed in 2010. They set nutrition standards for all food and drink sold during the school day, including competitive foods government language for vending machine snacks and bake-sale goodies.
The standards, which dictate how much fat and sugar food sold on school grounds can contain, do extend to snacks sold as fundraisers. That raised the hackles of some state school superintendents, including John Barge of Georgia, who called the rules an absolute overreach of the federal government.
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Late breaking news,
At last report moochell obammy was seen eating Clevelands entire waterfront.
Moving east along Lake Erie.
Residents of Buffalo are getting nervous.
Film at 10.
You’re insulting pork rinds. Pork rinds have value.
well darn. We are having a bake sale to raise cash for a cancer patient..what does she suggest we do ..have a carrot sale?
Carrot cake maybe?
Well, one thing she has done is starve our kids; but not her own or her own self.
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