Posted on 11/11/2014 2:58:30 PM PST by RightGeek
HASKELL, Okla. – A chicken patty, small scoop of mashed potatoes and carton of milk aren’t enough to sustain a high school boy.
But under the school lunch regulations championed by First Lady Michelle Obama, that’s what Haskell High School served recently.
Haskell High School senior Darrel Bunch took a photo of one of his recent skimpy school lunches and sent it to Fox 23.
“It’s mostly the portions,” Bunch says. “Last year we started getting less food.”
“Last year, my boys started calling me, ‘Can you please bring me something to eat?’ ‘We’re still hungry,’ or, ‘This is gross,” the student’s mother, Cheryl Bunch tells the news station.
Another photo taken by a different student showed a single cheese-filled bread stick with marinara sauce.
"When they serve a bread stick and marinara, it’s like, ‘Here, I’ve given up on trying to find you something nutritious and healthy,'” Cheryl Bunch says.
The school refused to allow the news station to show that day’s lunch servings. They wouldn’t even speak on camera.
Haskell superintendent Sharon Herrington defended the lunches off-camera, saying students are offered five items and they are required to take three. That means the chicken patty, glob of potatoes and milk would qualify as a complete lunch under the federal rules.
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Well said, txhurl!
And in the mid-80s that lunch tray would have had enough gravy on the chicken patty to share with the potatoes, and there would have been a roll (white or WW) with a pat of butter, and some peaches with a scoop of cottage cheese. And even the girls would finish off most of it. And none of us were fat.
The meals we had 50-60 years ago were much better! (Except the ones at Aztec NM! Beyond Horrible!)
I never had a school lunch, but my friend and I would often go to McDonalds, where I would have two quarter pounders with cheese, french fries and a chocolate shake. I was as thin as a rail.
After eating a whole tray, then blasting through track or swimming in the last couple hours of the day, I’d go home and eat a huge sandwich before ‘dinner’ if we hadn’t raided JackintheBox or McDs or Long Johns on the way home from school.
SONIC exists for a reason, growing kids need calories.
I simply could not live on less than a 2000 calorie lunch that was indeed protein and sugar before football practice, before afternoon swimming practice, or rowing (crew).
Literally four big PB sandwiches (300-400 calories each), a bag of chips ( 300 or so), 16oz chocolate milk (400 calories). that would do, and I would be ready for dinner after practice. This was every day.
At the time I was 6’3’ and 185 lbs. and simply an eating machine. I would eat almost constantly. These days I’m lucky to get 2000 calories all day to stay at 200lbs.
I remember reading of a study where they studied how much Panamanian agricultural laborers were losing weight while eating 8000+ calories a day. While I doubt even athletes at a school are working that hard, they do need much more than 3500 calories a day. Also most people who are doing heavy labor actually eat 4-5 meals of 1500-2000 calories each.
3500 calories would be most students, the student athletes do the equivalent of 3-4 hours of heavy labor daily, and thus need a lot more calories.
Liberalism at its best. Protect the fat and lazy at the expense of the athletes. In HS I would do a 3 hr wrestling practice then go run 66 laps (6 miles). Try that on a 500 calorie lunch. At least making weight would never be a problem...
Lucky me! I just found a 50 year old newspaper in which OUR school lunch menu is printed. March, 25, 1965. This is from a school in the Ozark hills.
Monday: Creole Spaghetti, candied sweet potatoes, celery sticks, fruit cobbler, milk.
Tuesday: Meat loaf and catsup, buttered potatoes, green beans, carrot sticks, creamed fruit, milk.
Wednesday: Pizza, whole kernel corn, peanut butter and crackers, ice cream cups, milk.
Thursday: Turkey, macaroni salad, french fries, garden peas, cake with topping, cheese stick, milk.
Friday:Hot tuna bun sandwiches, pork and beans, lettuce salad, cookies, milk.
Often the main meal would be Hamburgers, Beef stew(my favorite!), brown beans, goulash or Sloppy Joes. And we could go back for seconds! The head cook was great! She was from Amarillo TX, our High Plains country!
I’ve eaten good school lunches in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Arkansas.
The best was Denver Colorado, the worst Aztec NM. Now Kirtland schools, 30 miles west of Aztec were also delicious!
I remember your post from a couple of days ago about school meals in Aztec. Sounded pretty nauseating.
how a normal person could defend these as good lunches, it just would not happen. we’re talking about public school administrators.
zero tolerance means no longer thinking with God-given common sense. it has spread into all areas of their thinking. they wil defend liberal crap ideas and programs until court orders demand they stop. not even being exposed and embarrassed like this, stop them.
that’s pigging out on crap junk at home.
Please try to stay on topic!
mmm... which one?
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***about school meals in Aztec***
It was beyond bad! Kids were puking the stuff back up as fast they swallowed it. It seemed to be mostly a adulterated mix of macaroni and thinned down flavorless cheese slop, not enough to be good but definitely bad, EVERY DAY! Even the other foods on the tray were bad! It had to be bad for me to remember it 58 years later.
I finally talked mom into making me a sack lunch. Two balogna or other meat sandwiches with mustard, chips, cupcake, milk. I still remember those good sandwiches!
Ours looked a lot like that in TX, but with Tex-Mex thrown in:
Burrito covered in chili, french fries, pear halves, cornbread with butter
Tacos, rice & beans, chocolate pudding
Come to think of it our menu looked just like the Sonic menu, just with real vegetables and fruit.
I remember in elementary school all the chop-suey and other wierdness they pushed on us. And there was no ‘or’ back then, either. From this thread it looks like nobody’s posting the month’s school lunch menu on the fridge, too depressing.
Well, on Fridays there was an ‘or’: Fish sticks, but everybody went with the sausage pizza.
I think its the poorer schools that as a trade for federal dollars they adhere to moooshells lunch standards.
The Michelle Obama idiocy isn't a Federal mandate imposed on all schools. It's a condition of getting Federal money for your district's lunch program. That's why a number of school districts have decided to opt out of the Federal program and go back to their old lunches that didn't cause this kind of ruckus.
***with Tex-Mex thrown in:***
Sounds like the school lunches we had in Artesia and Tatum NM! Excellent!
No, they shouldn't. Don't wait for someone else to "do something" about a situation as idiotic as a school lunch program. People who are pissed off about it should do something themselves. Like bring your own f#%&ing lunch to school.
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