You give up FREEDOM when you vote in the lesser of 2 evils...they just do it slower.
Posted on 08/04/2012 4:46:55 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
get the feds out of our schools!!!!
Parents will need to push public schools to say no to federal money sent to subsidize reduced and free school lunches.
I don’t see this happening.
so a rail thin kid who may need more fats in his diet for a
still developing brain will be denied it by the gov’t. okay.
the good news is that this kind of crap touches EVERYONE and
spreads the misery. so. i’m glad they’re attaching the
obammas name to it.
in the privacy of the voting booth, who knows. people vote on what directly affects them. so keep the insults and attacks on this country coming, dems.
They will be hungry and unproductive in school and then go home and pig out.
Before and after lunch chart from the USDA. Image is too big to post on page.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Governance/Legislation/cnr_chart.jpg
I think the bean dishes could evolve into a very interesting protest item. Say a can of Pork & Beans before school and 3rd or 4th period would resemble the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles. The kids could just say "Hey, we are just eating what you suggested".
OK, I will admit I have a double espresso driven evil streak going this morning.
Look for kids going to the nearest Burger King, McDonalds, or pizza joint as soon as the school bell rings to make up for what they didn’t get during lunch. If I were an owner of any of those places, I’d be thrilled with the new government- mandated federal lunch program.
There really isn’t that much milk fat in regular milk. And children need it to adequately digest fat-soluble nutrients in the food they eat.
I like your reference to Southern soul food. Someone once told me that southern cooking was mostly fat, sugar, and booze. I know it isn’t true today, but some of the older recipes I have from a half-century ago certainly read that way!
They better increase the budget for waste removal. That is where a lot of the “healthy” foods go now. It will just get worse.
When weight begins to drop because kids aren’t getting enough calories, will anyone... oh, never mind. You can never convince a liberal bully they are wrong about anything. Even when it’s right in their face.
That’s just it though, kids need more carbs and proteins because they are (supposed to be) playing off the calories.
If you ask me, the stupid government should stop focusing on FOOD and start focusing on EXERCISE.
They complain about kids not ‘moving’ and yet they take out recess, make physical education about running laps instead of games that they might get hurt in (don’t you dare play dodgeball or red rover!) etc...
70 years ago, folks ate several eggs, bacon, biscuits and potatoes or grits for breakfast but it was ok because they worked it off through the day.
On Wednesday, first lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to unveil healthier new national lunch standards, which Chicago Public Schools pre-emptively adopted during the 2010-11 school year. That year, CPS incorporated more whole grains into lunchroom menus, removed daily nachos, started offering a different vegetable every day and introduced more healthful new foods.
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Last year the Tribune reported that only about 70 percent of CPS students were taking lunch after the meals were overhauled — even though 86 percent of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals. The lunchroom survey suggests the percentage of students who actually eat the food could be even lower — only 42 percent of the workers “felt the students were eating the new food.”
“A lot of students say they won’t eat it because it’s just not appetizing,” said Linda Green, who has worked in CPS food service for 22 years. “For instance, we can’t even put salt or any flavoring on the vegetables.”
Workers attribute increased school food waste to flavor issues as well as a largely one-menu-fits-all approach to a diverse district of 409,000 students. They also say more education is key when introducing new foods.
Asked for an example, one self-described lunch lady said, “Hummus!”
“It was waste because the children were unfamiliar with it, and as a staff member I couldn’t even inform the children about what nutritional value it holds because, again, I wasn’t educated on the values of the different foods,” said the worker, who asked to remain anonymous because she feared backlash from administrators.
School health advocates and the lunch workers agree that students need more freshly cooked and unprocessed foods. But CPS prohibits the building of working kitchens in elementary schools, opting instead to build reheating kitchens.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-lunchlady-survey-20120125,0,7989805.story
Federal demands forced feeding to kids in school.How big gov of them.
Southern soul food is rural poverty food, which is to say it features staples like corn meal, flour, rice and beans, cheap cuts of meat, and basic garden type vegetables. Also it uses animal fats like lard and butter. It’s actually very healthy if you tone down the carbs (biscuits, cornbread) and play up the meats and veggies.
LOL! Sounds exactly like my diet except for the wheat flour, which I cannot eat, and cornmeal, which I avoid due to GM factors.
Now, if only I can convince my nephew to stop eating fried mozzarella cheese and hot dogs!
You give up FREEDOM when you vote in the lesser of 2 evils...they just do it slower.
I agree with you. This diet will put even more weight on the kids who actually eat the lunches.
This is going to increase the waste of food because many kids aren’t going to touch this stuff.
Moms all over thecountry had better be prepared for increased demands for after school snacks. Their kidsare going to arrive home starving.
One more thing I haven’t seen mentioned. Every school system had better schedule math, scinece etc. in the morning, because after this new high carb lunch, half the school with be asleep from carb overload in the afternoon.
Wasted food and sleeping kids, all thanks to Michelle Obama, failed attorney turned failed dietician.
That's a good point.
Any bets on the percentage increase of school lunches that get tossed into the trash receptacle?
Kids are going to eat what kids like and toss out all those red and dark green veggies. More healthy meals, more hungry kids.
Neither the before or after looks appetizing to me. Heck when I went to school we had a full cafeteria and the lunch ladies who actually cooked all morning put out great meals.
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