Students Fed Up With Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Overhaul

[GURPS]

Minnesota’s largest high school ditches Michelle O’s lunch rules



SARTELL, Minn. – There’s a sign in the lunchroom of Minnesota’s Sartell High School: Students can choose two packets of barbecue sauce, or three ketchup packets, or two ketchups and a mustard, or just one packet of mayonnaise.

Michelle ObamaThe new condiment quotas are the product of new federal regulations that strictly limit calories, fat, sodium, sugar and most other nutritional elements of school snacks and lunch foods.

The rules, championed by First Lady Michelle Obama as a means to combat childhood obesity, are part of the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The measure, implemented in phases since 2012, overhauled the National School Lunch Program to force schools that receive federal lunch funding to offer “healthier” meals and school snacks for students.

But the overbearing regulations have thus far convinced a record number of students to bring their lunches from home. Lunchrooms across the country are experiencing significant revenue loss, and increasing waste due to a requirement that all students take a fruit or vegetable, whether they eat it or not.

 

[GURPS]

PHOTOS: Bugs invade ‘healthy’ Michelle O lunches


For these students, it usually means a free school meal or going hungry. More often, they’re choosing the latter.

“What they are provided with is unappetizing and unsatisfying,” Sarah Camiscoli, a teacher at the school, says. “There is much more effort [on the DOE’s part] put into thinking about fine tuning the logistics of state exams rather than the logistics of nutritional needs of students on free lunch.”

As more fresh fruits and vegetables are being introduced into school lunches, students are reporting that they’re finding more unintended protein in the items.

Raven Nolan posted this photo, thanking First Lady Michelle Obama, the champion of the “healthy” lunch rules:

Tb to grasshopper in the green beans #ThanksMichelleObama @lizabeth_akers pic.twitter.com/lR5zzWTDke

— Raven Nolan (@skye5197) February 9, 2015

Meanwhile, Rachel Owens posted this photo, which likely came from Hamilton Southeastern Schools in Indiana:

When there's a bee in your fruit #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/18UKElxxF7

— Rachel Owens (@rachel_owens72) February 10, 2015

And another student posted this in November:

shoutout to this bug lexie just found in her salad.. school lunch rox pic.twitter.com/4A0FMMRaOa

— cynth (@_cynthiajames) November 5, 2014

Still others:

 

[Lurk]

“There is much more effort [on the DOE’s part] put into thinking about fine tuning the logistics of state exams rather than the logistics of nutritional needs of students on free lunch.”

Preparing students for examinations to judge their readiness to advance IS the DOE's job. NOT feeding them free lunches.

 

[vraiblonde]

So it's Michelle Obama's fault that there are occasionally bugs in produce? Or her fault that kids are offered produce at all for school lunch? Or that there is even something edible that could be construed as produce?

What are we talking about here? Besides that teenagers are dolts who will bitch about anything?

 

[Hank]

So it's Michelle Obama's fault that there are occasionally bugs in produce? Or her fault that kids are offered produce at all for school lunch? Or that there is even something edible that could be construed as produce?

What are we talking about here? Besides that teenagers are dolts who will bitch about anything?

In the World of Grups.... Yes.

Everyone must be fat and unhealthy like him and his bovine. Oh, and bad teeth.

 

[GURPS]

opposed to your world garage boy .... where no one can stand to be around your

 

[Hank]

opposed to your world garage boy .... where no one can stand to be around your

You live with your Mother!

 

[GURPS]

is that all you've got
you live with family ...

stalking my facebook page again

 

[PeoplesElbow]

http://www.businessinsider.com/scho...tatoes-peas-fruit-cup-chocolate-chip-cookie-1

 

[Hank]

is that all you've got
you live with family ...

stalking my facebook page again

Uh, no. Vrai bumped a thread from the EmptyTimCup archives. You know, one of the many user names you had to have deleted.

You bust on a 26 x 40 shop and you don't even own chit!

 

[vraiblonde]

http://www.businessinsider.com/scho...tatoes-peas-fruit-cup-chocolate-chip-cookie-1

I started to get outraged and rant about why those countries' schoolkids get such great lunches while US kids are eating chicken nuggets. Then I remember that that's part of the debate: US kids won't eat fresh berries, let alone beets or cucumber salad. We eat like #### in this country. But nice try, Michelle Obama. They won't learn to read or give up their crack, either, so you're in good company with other First Ladies who tried and failed.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I started to get outraged and rant about why those countries' schoolkids get such great lunches while US kids are eating chicken nuggets. Then I remember that that's part of the debate: US kids won't eat fresh berries, let alone beets or cucumber salad. We eat like #### in this country. But nice try, Michelle Obama. They won't learn to read or give up their crack, either, so you're in good company with other First Ladies who tried and failed.

Yep

Some of those lunches look amazing btw.

My school lunches sucked, the spaghetti was the nastiest thing ever which that slurping sound it made as the cooks scooped it out of a huge vat with an ice cream scoop.

 

[vraiblonde]

Some of those lunches look amazing btw.

I would have any of those meals for lunch, except the US one.

 

[GURPS]

Uh, no. Vrai bumped a thread from the EmptyTimCup archives. You know, one of the many user names you had to have deleted.

You bust on a 26 x 40 shop and you don't even own chit!

how many times have you been banned garage boy

 

[GURPS]

My school lunches sucked, the spaghetti was the nastiest thing ever which that slurping sound it made as the cooks scooped it out of a huge vat with an ice cream scoop.

Pizza Burgers ..... faux pizza made with hamburger rolls