Posted on 12/29/2014 12:17:04 PM PST by Nachum
While your kids at school get the slop that Michelle Obama dictates that they do, her kids get something, um, different.
At their exclusive private school, the Obama daughters get food far better than you’d get at home, or in most restaurants.
Michelle Obama has made childhood obesity her pet issue, much like Nancy Reagan did with drugs or Laura Bush did with literacy. Fair enough.
However, the first lady’s nutritional strictures have left school lunches a little, um, not lunch-like.
It may lead you to wonder what Michelle’s kids are getting.
Well, wonder no further! We have what Sasha and Malia are getting at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. (H/T Mad World News).
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativetribune.com ...
In a government school I would expect to find government food.
Baloney and cheese with Mayo.
Well.... mine never had the baloney and cheese, but the MAYO was awesome.
mayo is right up there with bacon for awesomeness !
....And that's saying something! The crap they give people to eat in hospitals probably isn't as good as what prisoners eat! (not that there's much difference between a hospital and a prison)
A couple years ago I had to be in a very good hospital for a couple of weeks, and even their food was DREADFUL. The "food" they gave to the patients anyway. After a day or so, I had relatives bring stuff in to me from the outside. I really did feel like an inmate in that place. I had to have someone smuggle me in a pack of smokes, and I had to 'stash' them in a hiding place in one of the public waiting rooms on my floor, get one out of the pack, and sneak to a secluded area to smoke. I had them hidden in a GREAT place, no one ever found them, and they're probably still there right now. LOL
Soylent Green is made of...people.
I do get the hypocrisy this article is highlighting, and I think the calorie guidelines take what was already a problem (empty calories in school lunches) and make it worse (empty calories, but fewer of them). The problem isn’t what the president’s daughters are being served, but that local school districts have chosen the easiest path to implement a “school lunch” program. While Michelle had no business inserting herself into the situation, and the solution they came up with is asinine and self-defeating, even before Obama, school lunches epitomized everything that’s wrong with US government programs. The government identifies a problem: some children go hungry. (I’m not arguing whether the identified problem is or was real.) They suggest a solution, that actually looks good on paper: we’re already seeing these children 6 hours a day — let’s give them a hot lunch while they’re under our care. They then issue a mandate, and the solution gets implemented without regard to quality, just as in Jane Eyre, where the porridge was so burnt even starving children couldn’t gag it down. School lunches have always been disgusting and nutritiously dubious. Now there’s just less on the plate.
I think this is an area where we could learn from the French. (I know! but seriously, who knows food better than the French?) They pay about $2.50 per serving, and the kids get healthy gourmet fare similar to what the president’s daughters are eating. Providing decent, nutritious meals like the ones at Sidwell Friends would go a lot further toward achieving the school lunch programs stated goals and toward the newer goal of reducing childhood obesity. First, well- prepared, healthful food is more satisfying, and you can eat more of it for the same number of calories as these tiny school lunches. Second, good meals would model what healthy eating looks like, helping to educate young people about what it means when we talk about healthy eating.
I was fine with meatloaf and chicken.But what did *I* know.I was just a middle class typical white person.
Let them eat cake.
Sounds like the toothless diet.
It’s not that I expect them to eat PBJ sandwiches. It’s that I expect them to eat what they tell everyone else to eat. We do not have royalty in the US.
Royalty, no. In January, 2017, The One will become the ex-One, unless something drastic changes, which we should hope not. Noblesse oblige in four-to-eight-year doses, America does get. It’s part of making the job attractive to talented, virtuous people, making bribery and treachery less attractive to those with more of the former than the latter.
Remember Father Bertrand Aristide? When he was exiled to Washington, he had a monk’s cell as his apartment for the purpose of photographers wishing to make him look selfless and ascetic, and an adjoining room fit for a millionaire entertaining guests, who were probably the same photographers. Opulence and privilege that attend a high office is no crime. Hiding it is a symptom of criminality.
Haha. You need some yellow mustard with those Vienna sausages and crackers. We always had deviled ham mixed with mayonnaise on white bread. It was delicious!
I don’t think the food items shown in the link violate the government standards, and of course with high tuition you get better food service.
My husband taught in an urban school setting with many black and hispanic students. He often had kids who were hungry and inattentive. Many were lean and malnourished looking.
I was in public school from 1943 to 1956. I have no recollection of K thru 6, so I imagine my mother who avoided sugar mostly sent a lunch with me. Then I went to a combined junior/senior high school where we had lunch, including pie or cake every day. I got about one cavity a year there, none previously. Off to university where living in a dormitory I got breakfast, lunch and dinner, with sweet rolls, cake, pie, ambrosia, bread pudding, and other sweets at every meal. Got six more cavities in one year. Then I moved to off campus housing where I did my own cooking with very little sweets and got NO more cavities for many years except for failed fillings. Don’t give your children sweets and save their teeth. I let my children have sweets, at Halloween, Christmas, Easter and their birthdays, and they had no cavities at all into adulthood. They are now early 40s, one got a cavity behind an impacted wisdom tooth. The other needed dental repair work from cracked tooth, which the dentist said might be from his 82nd Airborne days.
You’re right, of course. Like your children, mine had candy only on special occasions but not at other times. They never had cavities, either. But then, this past year, I started buying a type of sticky candy that became their favorite, and the firstborn ended up with one cavity right before heading to college.
Something else I did was have them always rinse their mouths with water within 10 minutes after eating, especially if they had fruit, and especially on the rare candy holidays. As children they did not brush every day.
I’m sure sugar is not good for us - but I’ve baked lots of good things and my children have had sugar all of their lives and never had a cavity - ever. They are now 28 and 23 and are consistently told they do a good job of flossing and brushing by their dentists.
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