WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee has endorsed a Republican plan to allow some schools to opt out of healthier meal standards.
It's about time. A nation of shool children have been hungry all school year because there's nothing on the requirement list they will eat. Not to mention, the billions of dollars and tons of food that goes to waste. Michelle Obama has taken some real heat over this stupid lunch plan and has had officials speaking out for her, denying that she had anything to do with it. Bullshit. She had everything to do with it. She wanted to regulate what we put into our kids while she has personal chefs and professional gardeners at the White House. Quit lying, Michelle and take the heat. Admit you were wrong and it didn't work. Maybe I won't have to pack lunches next year if the kids can get a fucking tater tot.
Nobody want's your skanky broccoli, Michelle. 'Specially not five days a week. That salad looks good to me. Too bad school lunch salad looked nothing like that. Neither does the fruit. I've had better meals in jail.
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Amen Pat!! My 14 year old daughter comes home starving everyday! AND I pay 3.25 a day for that stupid lunch!
I am all for making sure that kids will actually eat lunch, but why is it that kids don't want to eat healthy stuff? I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but I was watching Anthony Bourdain last night with my husband, and he was in France. He spent some time in an elementary school, having lunch with the kids, and they had a great lunch that was made from scratch (that is actually what they do there) and all the kids ate everything, and many wanted (and got) more servings of a variety of things. All but licking their bowls clean on stuff like cream of pumpkin soup. It was pretty amazing. The kids obviously really liked it. Why is it that we serve junk and that's what kids want to eat?
I am not talking about MO's healthy stuff, because I think that she is from another planet.
I just don't get it.
Are tater tots really healthy? My workplace now offers them on the improved, "healthy" menu at work. No french fries, but tater tots are okay? They always seem greasy to me, but, okay.
Christina
It's infuriating, isn't it? Not one thing on a weekly menu my grand kid will eat, so even though she qualifies for free lunch, I have to pack it. And I look at the menu daily and I know she isn't lying. Broccoli every single day, the entire year. WTF is that about???
BTW, your post wasn't lost, I'm moderating now. I love that you comment!
ps..they do this thing in grade school here where the kids invite a relative to have school lunch with them. I looked at the menu and told her to invite her dad. He's young and can take it. LMAO! My stomach was just repaired, I am not putting that shit into it.
Christina, the school lunch ladies aren't Anthony Bordain. To meet the requirements they come up with stuff that fits the list, but, is cooked the same way the junk food is. Frozen, thawed, micro'd, stuck under warming lights for hours. The result is nasty mucky slop that looks like vomit. No kid wants that shit. No human wants that shit. Oh, and add raw fruits that they don't have time to peel because they only get 15 min for lunch. Oh, there's so much more to say, but, not enough space. Kids are going hungry every day. It's not right.
I'd rather they get some junk that they actually eat than so called healthy stuff they won't. It freaks me out when they don't eat all day. I can worry about her healthy eating at home. School lunch is not for Michelle Obama to decide for my kid..or yours.
Besides (still yaking, huu? LOL) when I was a kid, school lunches rocked. It was the only place I got real food. Real mashed potatos (taters are cheap!), a piece of chicken, green beans (all kids eat green beans) and some little sweet. It was delicious, cooked like home, and cheap to serve. Now it's inedible crap that makes me gag to look at photos of it. We need to go back to serving kids plain, ordinary, cheap food. They like it. Let parents decided to introduce the weird stuff at home. It's our job!
I get what you are saying, but the lady (a chef in a white jacket and apron) always cooks like that from scratch for children's lunches, because they feel it's important. I think they even figured out the cost per child, if I remember right. I think that here the cost was something like $2.50-$3.00, and for her scratch cooking it was approximately $1.50. He (AB) just went to a school and had lunch with them, but had nothing to do with the cooking there.
I just don't get the wide gulf between what they serve, and children eat, and what goes on here. I think our school lunch program (as I knew it when my son was in elementary school) was horrible. I worked lunch duty, as it was part of our "Time, Treasure, Talent" contribution to the school, and there was a lot of food that went straight from the serving bins to the garbage, or from the plates of kids who took items because they were told to, but had no intention of eating them (also went straight to the garbage).
It's terrible if there is broccoli on the menu every day. I know many kids simply will not have anything to do with it, so why serve it at all? It's a waste of money, and obviously defeats the goal of school lunch (feeding kids, and allowing them to perform well in school).
I know what you mean about school lunches when we were growing up. They were awesome. There were seconds on things, too, and kids lined up to get them because they were so good! I still fondly remember the smell of pizza day.
Christina
Maybe if they trained the cooks better, but, school cooks are something else. They reign supreme and no one tells them what to do. I know we, as a country, should feed our kids better, not so much junk. But, it's not a schools responsibility to monitor them, it's ours. I just want some plain old food they can eat. It shouldn't be hard.
In my high school in Florida, we had a taco bell, a pizza hut and a subway vendor in the cafeteria, in addition to the food served there. This was in 1993.
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