Posted on 02/14/2012 9:47:32 AM PST by Nachum
State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead
RAEFORD A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.
The girls turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.
The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs including in-home day care centers to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.
When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones.
The girls mother who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a healthy lunch would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.
I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria lunch when I provide lunch for her from home, the mother wrote in a complaint to her state representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson County.
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The Infamous Twinkie Lasagna
1 Box Twinkies
1 Package cream cheese
1 Pint Sour cream
1 Pint Ricotta cheese
1 Cup sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla
1/8 Teaspoon Orange Liqueur
1 Cadburys chocolate bar w/almonds
Slice twinkies lengthwise and arrange the slices in a single layer in a medium baking dish. (at least 2 deep) combine all ingredients but the chocolate in a mixing bowl and pour enough over the twinkies to cover them. Shave the chocolate and sprinkle between layers. Continue to build the layers until the dish is full. Freeze over night and let thaw for at least 2 hours before serving
The Infamous Twinkie Lasagna
1 Box Twinkies
1 Package cream cheese
1 Pint Sour cream
1 Pint Ricotta cheese
1 Cup sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla
1/8 Teaspoon Orange Liqueur
1 Cadburys chocolate bar w/almonds
Slice twinkies lengthwise and arrange the slices in a single layer in a medium baking dish. (at least 2 deep) combine all ingredients but the chocolate in a mixing bowl and pour enough over the twinkies to cover them. Shave the chocolate and sprinkle between layers. Continue to build the layers until the dish is full. Freeze over night and let thaw for at least 2 hours before serving
You are playing right into the hands of the school/lunch nazis by trying to justify the nutritional value of the lunch the child brought from home. It doesn't matter what the nutritional value of the child's lunch is and it should never even enter the argument. What the parents pack for their child's lunch is none of our damn business.
“The girls turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.”
this has got to be satire...right???
A lot of times, these products contain traces of peanuts.
This is really outrageous.
Our family has been school-free (tm) since 1999. None of our children will have attended schools of any kind. Unfortunately, our oldest wants to go to college, ruining an otherwise perfect record.
if anyone else were the President I would assume this story had come from The Onion
Sure looks like our experiment in self governance is over. We failed.
Someone could have been seriously injured or killed. (/sarc)
Ohhhhh my..... breathe, Tatt. Breathe, and think calm thoughts.
Now. Read over the article again, and the thread just to be certain.
Breathe.
I will choose what is healthy for myself, thank you very much. And when my children have children of their own, and I am taking care of them, I will choose just as I did when mine own were young.
No government or school employee has any business inspecting anyone’s homemade food.
Allow me to paraphrase a most excellent comment I read on another FoodNazi thread, (apologies that the original poster’s name escapes me) - “”Does the phrase, “My body - My choice” sound at all familiar Libs?””
Ours went through public school, but in the words of my youngest on graduation night, “Nick of time, Mom. Nick of time.”
Dear Lord, please, give us the strength to take our country back. Our children, and our very lives.
Tatt
I’ll see your lasagna and raise you one deep-frier:
“Deep-Fried Twinkies”
From Good Morning America and Janet K. Keeler, St. Petersburg Times food editor
6 Twinkies
Popsicle sticks
4 cups vegetable oil
Flour for dusting
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 Tablespoon oil
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
1. Chill or freeze Twinkies for several hours or overnight.
2. Heat 4 cups vegetable oil in deep fryer to about 375 degrees.
3. Mix together milk, vinegar and oil.
4. In another bowl, blend flour, baking powder and salt.
5. Whisk wet ingredients into dry and continue mixing until smooth. Refrigerate while oil heats.
6. Push stick into Twinkie lengthwise, leaving about 2 inches to use as a handle, dust with flour and dip into the batter. Rotate Twinkie until batter covers entire cake.
7. Place carefully in hot oil. The Twinkie will float, so hold it under with a utensil to ensure even browning. It should turn golden in 3 to 4 minutes. Depending on the size of your deep fryer, you might be able to fry only one at a time, two at the most.
8. Remove Twinkie to paper towel and let drain. Remove stick and allow Twinkie to sit for about 5 minutes before serving.
Actually it seems to me like it is closer to the old soviet union. Complete with a state run mish-mosh of agencies that are run like the KGB. The DHS, Attack Watch, "Truth Team", Food police, EPA police, FDA police, Agenda 21 land use police, TSA police, and goon squads (ACORN) who take their orders from the "Won": Mmmmm mmmm mmmm Barack Hussein Obama.
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There was a news story some months back regarding the vile concoction that goes into chicken nuggets, complete with photos prior to breading and cooking. Picture creamy smooth pink self serve ice cream. Absolutely nausea inducing.
“If you cant make it in the TSA, the regime will get you a gig with the Department of Agriculture, passing judgment on the nutritional value of schoolkids lunches”
And if you fail both of those, you can look forward to a job with HHS reviewing which healthcare procedures citizens are allowed to obtain.
You need a hip replacment? Sorry comrade, you are too old, smoked when you were a teenager, drank a glass of wine in the past 6 months and are 20 pounds overweight. DENIED! STAMP STAMP
after reading about pink slime, I can no longer even stomach the smell of a McDonalds hamburger.
Sadly.
You just might be shocked if youi ever saw how food,especially meat,and especially chicken is “processed”.Keep in mind much of the work is done by [probaly illegal Mexican immigrants and Muslims “refugees” because they work cheap compared to American citizens.
You do realize there are federal standards for the percentage of foreign materials in food,not the absolute prohibition of such materials.But if cooked at high enough heat and for sufficient time, even rat hair and insect parts are rendered “safe”
Bon appetit!
momtothree posts - “”This is all about control (IMHO) than nutrition.””
Exactly. Raise the child to do what the non parental authority figure tells her, AND clearly, the mom is already subservient, since she is afraid to say anything!!
Got to say that we raised no sheep. We learned quite early on that the public schools were intent upon training children AWAY from their parents, and so set about the business of raising goats, extraordinarily polite goats, mind you, but hardheaded and determined to think for themselves, and DECIDE for themselves.
UNBELIEVABLE.
God help us.
Tatt
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