Posted on 10/07/2014 9:32:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The lunch ladies loved Marshall Matz. For more than 30 years, he worked the halls and back rooms of Washington for the 55,000 dues-paying members of the School Nutrition Association, the men and still mostly women who run America’s school-lunch programs.
So when Michelle Obama started Let’s Move!, her campaign against child obesity, in 2010, the members of the School Nutrition Association were her natural allies.
Today the School Nutrition Association is Washington’s loudest and most public critic of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Even as they claim to support the act, the lunch ladies have become the shock troops in a sometimes absurdly complex battle to roll back the Obama’s administration’s anti-obesity agenda. Some Democrats in Congress fear that if Republicans win control of the Senate this fall, Obama’s reform will be gutted within a year.
The first shot in the Cafeteria Wars was fired in January 2011. That was when, under the terms of the new law, a team of dietitians, economists and nutritionists at the Department of Agriculture released the revised meal pattern for school breakfasts and lunches.
Participation in the free-lunch program, reserved for children from low-income families, actually climbed slightly in the first year after Obama’s changes. But by the end of the year, roughly one million fewer kids were participating in the National School Lunch program, the first decrease in more than two decades.
Internal surveys by the S.N.A. found that schools of all sizes and income levels were struggling with higher costs, lower participation and what they call plate waste — kids throwing away perfectly good food.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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The same stupid kind of campaign as Lady Bird Johnson’s fight to remove any sight of junkyards from the highway.
If losing weight is the point of Michelle’s school diet bullying, it has worked. Children won’t eat that crap, and they don’t want to pay for it.
Hopefully these school kids are learning a powerful lesson about intrusive nanny government.
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actually, they go home hungry and eat junk food
if the mooch-liberal set wanted kids to lose weight they would spearhead making neighborhoods safe enough that mothers would not be afraid to let kids play outside
if mooch was into this her prescribed school menus would be served at the WH
Sidwell Friends School Menu Today (what Sasha and Malia are dining on):
Local Butternut Squash and Celeriac Soup
Farmer’s Salad
Sustainable Harvest Meal
Local Collard w/ Grapes
Tomatoes & Bacon Salad
Sliced All-natural Rosemary Chicken
Farmer’s Market Quinoa
Feed The Difference
Roasted Local Market Vegetables
Basmati Rice with Garden Fresh Herbs
Toigo Apple Crisp
We even have a summer meals program here in Anaheim Ca.makes me sick, toe heads need not apply
Ok I’m in my middle fifties and never heard of Celeriac soup had to look it up is it an east coast thing ?
It’s a fancy name for celery root. It’s a root vegetable that I use mainly in winter recipes.
The new rules have made it so easy for me to teach what liberalism is; the idea that you are too stupid to make decisions, the government needs to make them for you.
As a teen we trust you with a license that allows you to drive a 2,000 lb car down the highway putting your life that those of other drivers in mortar risk, but you can't be allowed to live with the results of deciding between a healthy lunch and a twinkie.
This is the lunch menu for the private school Obama’s daughters attend:
October 7, 2014
Local Butternut Squash and Celeriac Soup
Farmer’s Salad
Sustainable Harvest Meal
Local Collard w/ Grapes
Tomatoes & Bacon Salad
Sliced All-natural Rosemary Chicken
Farmer’s Market Quinoa
Roasted Local Market Vegetables
Basmati Rice with Garden Fresh Herbs
Toigo Apple Crisp
Anytime there is a news story on the school lunch controversy be sure to post the Sidwell Friends school lunch menu in the comments area!
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Jr High NHS kids can't do their fund raiser's in their pre-class breakfast bi-weekly get togethers. aka they don't know if it is "legal" for them to sell Donuts or Bagels.
Are you freakin' kidding me? their 13 they will burn up a donut faster than you or I ever will!
High School kids? Oh ya their school store can't sell Otis Spunkmyer Cookies anymore or anything, that doesn't meet her highness's food edicts.
These small business yes they run by to teach kids about business, won't survive selling gluten free bla-bla-bla and celery sticks.
Heck it doesn't matter, they didn't build it anyway....
Hunger-Free Kids Act - The Mexicans see this and think “Wow! They even give free food to goats in American. I got to get across that river!”
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