Posted on 09/08/2014 5:36:32 PM PDT by Hojczyk
That means a lot of popular snacks are now off the table, including donuts, brownies, potato chips, full flavor pop, candy bars, and most other foods teenagers prefer. Even salt shakers and packets are now illegal.
At Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska, students who don’t have a regular lunch period often eat from the school’s café, which serves a la carte lunch food. Café manager Jackie Cambridge told KETV finding foods that fit the federal snack rules has “been just about impossible.”
Zipay told the news site lunch cooks have had the same problem, and can’t even serve a turkey sandwich to students because there’s too much sodium. There is now a two-slice limit on salami.
The snack regulations have also caused problems for school fundraisers in numerous districts because the regulations apply to any food sold at school during school hours. Cookies and other traditional bake sale fare is too fatty, or has too much sugar to make the cut.
Georgia recently allowed districts to apply for an exemption from the snack rules which essentially allow schools to sell food for fundraisers without regard to nutritional content during about half of the school year.
Nebraska apparently has a similar exemption process in place for school fundraisers for the next two years, but bake sale food likely will be banned after that, the news site reports.
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We couldn’t buy snacks or sodas when I was in school. In fact, just HAVING a soda in a can was a demerit. You could bring soda with your lunch but it had to be in your thermos. Ie, your PARENT provided it, you hadn’t snuck into the teachers lounge and snagged one out of the machine there. That was the *only* machine in the school btw. One drink machine per school, in the teachers lounge.
I don’t get this drink machine/snack machine business. You either ate in the cafeteria or brought your lunch. If you wanted cheetos you bugged your mom to put them in your lunch bag. In elementary school, just prior to recess there were trays of milk and fruit and you could eat a snack you’d brought from home if you had it.
If the teacher caught you with candy out of the recess period or lunch time she’d confiscate it and throw it away. Gum, tictacs, now-n-laters, you name it. Just don’t bring them to school.
No drink or snack machines. We somehow managed to survive to adulthood. We weren’t overweight then either.
Madness.
It’s why I’m glad I was home schooled. Didn’t have to put up with that. Although I did have to go, or rather, chose, to participate in extra-curricular activities like soccer and band. I saw what they had to put up with. Liberal madness.
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This is a great addition to your propaganda collection, TM
Don’t credit me, I stole it years ago from somewhere...
My school wasn’t liberal at all. Just disciplinarian.
Rural south, 30+ years ago.
You were there to learn, not snack. Snack at home.
This is the daycare generation that’s accustomed to eating every 2 hours.
Try as I might, I just can’t put my finger on the Constitutional provision that gives the spouse of the chief executive lawmaking powers. Or a provision that gives Congress power over education, much less what our kids eat.
They’re not allowed to, Seriously.
That’s a whole nother brand of crazy right there.
I was a really picky child. No way I’d have eaten any cafeteria food. At. All. I ate a grilled cheese sandwich every single day for over a decade. Somehow I managed to turn out. Bean salad? Oh heck no.
Them's fightin' words! 
“This is the daycare generation that’s accustomed to eating every 2 hours.”
BUMP! And overly-medicated on the same schedule.
I don't remember snacking either. Kindergarten did not exist thank goodness. First grade was in a rural school. Each teacher taught two grades in elementary school through 8th grade. Second grade I was in the city. First grade through third grade was out of class going home at 1:30. We walked home or rode our bikes. Fourth grade I was back at the rural school. We had to be there by 8:15 and were out at 2:15. School year was from Labor Day week - Memorial Day week. The school system stayed out of the family summer. High school was 8:30-3:30 and mandatory Physical Ed for at least three of those years.
Today same rural county has kids riding buses from about 6:30 in the morning to be at school by 8:00. In the afternoon with high school letting out at 3:50 some get home after 5:00pm. All of this due to the insane concept of MEGA-Consolidated schools. Yea I think in this case the kids should be allowed to snack.
Kids weight started shooting up for two main reasons. One was the elimination of physical education and cut recess time in lower grades. The other especially in urban area the communities aren't safe for kids to go outside and be kids because the communities let hoods and perverts take over. 1964 I was 7 years old. I went out the door in the morning by about 9:00am and met up with friends. We came in for lunch and went back out till supper time. A check in with mom every couple of hours unless at someones house or letting her know where sufficed.
Today the education system has taken over the family and they're doing a sorry job at a task they have no business being in. Then there is the kids forget over the summer nonsense. We didn't. Not much anyway. When the teacher has you repeating things over and over like the multiplication tables it stays in your brain and you can function as an adult. Kids today are working after school in stores and they can't even count change back to you except using the register. My stint as a clerk we had to count change from amount due store up to amount handed us by customer. That kept the con artist from ripping the store off because we did not put money into the till until customer accepted the change. It kept everyone honest.
I took basic Math in high school no Algebra etc. But I can work out problems in my head. What good is Algebra if a kid can't tell you off the top of his head what nine times nine is or what 50% off of something is without a calculator? And these fools controlling schools want to control kids food now? They aren't being taught to think. They are being taught to comply and food is part of it.
Even though it’s still a trickle, Michelle has done more than ANY REPUBLICAN to get kids off the School Lunch Program, as more districts pull out.
Hopefully it will become a DELUGE.
10-4. It’s none of the Fed gov’s business just like so many other things they stick their noses into. It’s time to push the reset button with our government.
here’s a novel idea, take all the money spent for the “let’s move” program and forcing schools to change their lunch menus and give the schools that money to bring back PE classes (physical education)! When I was a kid we had PE everyday for an hour.
In the interest of accuracy, don't you mean a Butt-Wider Clydesdale?
Well now they can go home and munch down on FS/EBT Junk Food. BTW I just remembered something about Food Stamps. When I was growing up a woman across the road was raising 9 kids on what little bit her cheating husband gave her after he drank it up. She was on Food Stamps I know that much and the kids got free meals at school. But she had to pay for the Food Stamps. I doubt many realize that was how it started.
The original program was one where you bought Food Stamps from the state depending on your income as to what you paid for them or the pay and receive ratio I guess you could call it. There was a maximum they could buy per month. I know I remember it right.
Does anyone remember Shake-A-Pudding?
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