Posted on 09/05/2014 10:48:24 AM PDT by Raebie
CHICAGO – Hummus is too fatty, pretzels are too salty. Even hard-boiled eggs and yogurt don’t make the cut.
Those restrictions and others imposed on schools through the revamped “healthier” National School Lunch Program convinced officials in Illinois’ second largest school district to forfeit nearly $1 million in federal lunch aid to serve students food they want to eat, rather than what the government tells them to, CBS reports.
“So far so good. The meals, as you’ve seen, look fantastic, and there’s a lot of excitement,” District 214 Associate Superintendent Cathy Johnson told the news station as officials recently unveiled their new menu.
The federal “healthier” school lunch overhaul, championed by First Lady Michelle Obama, has been a boondoggle for public schools across the country. The tightened restrictions, intended to combat childhood obesity, have driven more than 1 million students away from school lunches and created over $1 billion per year in food waste since they were implemented in 2012.
The drastic drop-off in lunch sales is prompting an increasing number of school districts to ditch the regulations and attached federal funding to save their floundering cafeteria programs. Just this week, two other New York school districts dropped out.
District 214 administrators told CBS the unreasonable restrictions on protein, sodium and fat made preparing meals students would buy nearly impossible, while the district-inspired menu “would be far simpler,” according to Johnson.
Crispy falafel with flatbread and rice pilaf, and pasta primavera with roasted vegetables and olive oil – two new menu items in District 214’s lineup – would have violated the federal regulations because of low protein content, for example.
“What would happen is the sales simply wouldn’t be there, and the offerings that we would currently have wouldn’t be available,” Johnson told CBS.
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Cafone.
Only a stupid left wing fascist would demand children sit down in front of a plate full of kale and tofu and then be confounded because they wouldn’t eat it.
The tahini (sesame paste) is oily and olive oil is, well, oil (vegetable fat). And chick peas are like any legume very high in caloric content. So yeah, hummus is very fatty and high in calories but so the F what? As long as they’re active kids burn calories like walking furnaces. It’s not the food that’s making them fat it’s the hours spent indoors glued to a computer or iPhone screen. Get them moving and breaking a good sweat daily and the obesity problem (and most of the behavioral issues the psychology profession is handing psychotropic drugs out like candy for) will largely disappear. Leave it to an ignorant, fat ass left wing fascist beyotch to impose something so wrong headed on the young.
Humans are too fatty? Oh..... Wait.....
I misread the headline.
Can go back to normal diet now.
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You're preachin' to the choir, Kat. Too many kids consider making them actually move about to be child abuse!
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