[upchuck]

Attn Moderator: Despite the last sentence, this is NOT an AP story.

The folks in the nanny state just don't get it. Their main problem is that we've had too much freedom for too long and they'll never be able to change that. But, they keep trying :)

Get the Feds and the USDA out of the government indoctrination centers lunch program.

Hey, U.S. House of Representatives: We don't need exemptions, we need complete repeal. Just like nobamacare.

[RginTN]

Michelle O. didn’t care to get the input from the students, the schools when she implemented her plan. So like a Marxist, edicts from the top with no concern how those impacted suffer from that edict.

[Steely Tom]

I’m in F-M school district. This is the first I’ve heard of it. The school district’s not exactly shouting it from the rooftops.

Baldwinsville is pretty conservative. It’s about 20 miles west of me.

[lee martell]

So Michelle “Vows to fight for her PET PROJECT till the ‘bitter end’”. I actually believe she said that line, not thinking or not giving a damn on how self centered it sounds. She wants ‘a big win’ at whatever costs necessary. Poorly nourished schoolkids or lunch menus stripped of all flavor and visual appeal? Those are but a few of the collateral damages one must accept on the road to victory and self-glorification!

[trisham]

This is great!

[Graybeard58]

Enrolled my two teen agers in high school recently. Interesting thing I learned about their school lunch program, Unlike middle school, there are several different lunch lines, one line is the basic lunch that costs $2.00 for the payers and free loaders alike, other lines for optional food items such as pizza, burgers etc. (the good stuff).

Kids who have the “free” lunch pass are not allowed to use their pass to “buy” items from those lines, even if they have cash to pay with. Kids who have a balance on their cards that parents have paid hard cash for, may purchase as much as they want from among the “extra” items.

I love it but am wondering how long it will be before some lib starts hollering discrimination.

We live in a very conservative area. In a high school population of about 3,000 there are probably fewer than a dozen “minority” kids.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Why not go with the menu plan which is available to Michelle's daughters?

Tomorrow's lunch menu for middle school/upper school students at the Sidwell Friends School:

Sweet Corn Chowder
Lentil, Beet & Orange Salad
Blackened Portobello Salad
All Natural Meatball Subs
Margherita Orzo
Farmer's Market Vegetable
Baked Potato Wedges
Grapes

[McGruff]

I went to Baldwinsville schools, but that was over 50 years ago. Living in the Peoples Republic of Connecticut these days. Glad to hear they haven’t gone over to the dark side.

[workerbee]

As a result of last year’s school lunch menu high school lunch sales in Baldwinsville plummeted from about 600 to 430 students per day.

So, can someone tell me what this means in terms of the "disadvantaged" kids? Every time we hear of a school district deep-sixing the new guidelines, it's because participation drops dramatically. Does this mean that even the kids who normally would have a free or subsidized lunch suddenly discover they actually can make a better lunch at home? Because if that's the case, then I say this has been a GREAT program!

[Dahoser]

At Fayetteville-Manlius, Baldwinsville, and thousands of other districts the new regulations resulted in a sharp downturn in students who eat school lunch and a sharp increase in food waste. The lost sales are threatening the viability of cafeteria programs in schools across the country, prompting many to do without federal subsidies to serve students food they’ll actually buy and eat.

There's a lesson in here about the high cost of free. We need to find a way to apply it in many more directions. Maybe the trick is to let the libs run their game plan as we do with Moochelle. Hmmm.

[American in Israel]

If Moose really believed that her lunch menu was so good for people, she would be eating it herself in the White House. I some how doubt she pushes aside the Lobster for a carrot stick.

[Mears]

They can’t serve grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup???????????

Words fail me.

Someone ought to run Michelle Obama out of the country on a rail. She is truly insane.

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[Morpheus2009]

There’s a problem with this program, when you get to school children, their metabolic rates are highly variable. For instance, I could eat an entire little Caesar’s pizza one evening in a week, and when I graduated. High School, I was 6’2” and only 159lbs. What I ate would make a lot of teenagers go overweight, but it didn’t carry that effect. My body also didn’t accumulate cholesterol to any serious degree either. These dieting ideas sound a little harsh for athletic, super metabolic individuals such as myself.

[onona]

Central NY is the $hit !

And you can find county sheriffs outspoken about the stupid SAFE act.

happy to let NYC form its own state

[MtnClimber]

The schools could save some money by firing all cafeteria staff and dumping the Moochelle food directly into the dumpster. Same result, lower cost, less fat kids.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I don't think it is a good policy dropping the new guidelines.

If the children in New York gain weight it's possible they will weigh down the United States causing California to raise up and make the Pacific Plate rise, causing Guam to flip over.