Posted on 02/29/2016 7:23:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More students are buying lunches at Bozeman schools since the district abandoned the National School Lunch Program after deeming the nutritional rules too strict. Revenues in the fall semester increased nearly $50,000 compared to the previous year.
Last year the school board voted to let the high school drop out of the federal program, saying the nutritional guidelines were costing the cafeteria customers.
Bozeman Public Schools Food Services Director Bob Burrows says the high schoolers weren't purchasing school lunches because they knew they wouldn’t get enough food.
According to Burrows, the USDA set a one-size-fit- all approach for how many calories a high schooler needs, taking the calorie intake of an inactive high school aged female and the intake of an active high-school aged male then bell-curving it to the center.
"So right off the bat when you have a bell curve like that and the calories are right in the middle, the people on the right side of bell curve aren't getting enough to eat and the people on the left side are getting too much to eat. No one is happy."
(Excerpt) Read more at mtpr.org ...
You see the “pap” they feed our kids at school, all set up by Moochelle, then you see a picture of her stuffing ribs and buttered buns into her fat jowls....
But they are all equal. Therefore the program is a success.
Back in my day, the lunchroom ladies cooked real food and the kids didn’t complain about mystery meat. We had real recognizable meat. Real fried chicken and real lemon pepper chicken. The smell of homemade yeast rolls was amazing.
“The smell of homemade yeast rolls was amazing.”
You aren’t kidding! I can still smell those after all these years.
If you people would just give up and do as we say everything would be perfect.
School cafeteria yeast roll recipe!
Our also made their own noodles
One day’s the baked yeast rolls a large pan of cinnamon monkey bread appeared in teachers prep room with a note of appreciation for “ all you do!”
They also served fresh vegetables and fruit from local truck farms Not allowed today
Did we love our cooks? We’re they treated with respect? You betcha!
Eh, we had mass produced food, but it was edible. It was good prep for military service.
Today, the fed guidelines are insane, especially for a high school kid doing sports. And the food really is terrible.
Yep. My mom was a cook at Fullerton USD (California) in the 1970s. Nothing was processed or pre-packaged. Everything that was served at lunch was prepared and cooked/baked earlier that morning.
Most the pity what liberals and bureaucrats have done to our schools.
I went to a small mountain school until we moved to the city when I was 14...The small school had cooking just like I got at home...DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We used to have sausage balls (like meatballs) when I was in grade school. The word on the street was the staff made them in their armpits.
I was blessed by GOD to grow up in South Louisiana, all the cooks were old Cajun and Creole ladies. The food at school was great.
You’d think we never could have survived our childhood the way these liberals think today. Gosh, how did we ever manage to actually feed ourselves??!!
Brown bags were the morn. Then came lunch boxes. Then came hot meals. Fast-forward 30+ years later and these snowflake liberals can seem to get anything right anymore, not even feeding their children.
Yup. Same here. With butter on one slice of bread. Yuck.
What a coincidence. That was my nickname in high school.
Exactly. Bring your own damn lunch.
What, TWO pieces of bologna? Was it your birthday? ;-)
That MESSAGE is a loud one to Michel O’!
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