Ewww. Who said that?
USDA to make school lunches edible again. Michelle Obama hardest hit.
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Ewww. Who said that?
I'm not advocating Snickers and Mountian Dew for school lunches, but the sight alone of some of some of the Moochelle lunches is disgusting.
When I was in school, some decades ago, it was a simple lunch. Meat, starch and vegetable and 8oz milk. Nothing fancy, but edible and readily identifiable.
We need to return to the 60s' way of doing it. LOL. The women that ran the cafeteria in my elementary school also ran the kitchen at the local firehouse for events like wedding receptions. Food was awesome, although we could only afford it once in awhile, brown bagging it most of the time.
Of course the school kitchens had all manner of commercial ranges and grill tops, steamers, steam-heated cauldrons...
Of course the school kitchens had all manner of commercial ranges and grill tops, steamers, steam-heated cauldrons...
I am against kids being served junk food because "they won't eat anything else". Don't you remember when you were a kid? Maybe you had home made comfort food lunches at your school, but we had cafeteria mundane. It was okay, but nothing to get excited about, and much of it ended up in the trash. Pizza day was the only day you saw kids eating their lunch, and even then the fruit cocktail or whatever came with it got pitched. My first husband (who I went to high school with) used to buy two Snicker bars every day for lunch instead of getting whatever was going on at the cafeteria. And again, the lunches weren't bad - they just weren't a Snicker bar or McDonalds.
I'm am very much in favor of encouraging kids to eat nutritious food and explore a healthy lifestyle. Will they like it? No. Is it good for them? Yes.
What did work for us was to pack the kids' lunches. We had a ton of lunch components that they'd request on grocery day - sandwich fixin's, chips, fruit, cut veggies, etc - and in the morning they'd grab what they wanted, stick it in their lunch bag, and off they'd go. They are more likely to eat it if they picked it out and they prepared it. If I'd cut carrot and celery sticks and set them out not a single one of those kids would have touched it; but if they cut the carrots themselves, they scarf that chit so fast you'll lose an arm if you get in the way. Apples slices, same thing.
But back to the subject, kids throwing away their lunch in favor of junk food is nothing new. Michelle Obama didn't create that. Kids hiding their veggies under something or feeding them to the dog is a standard sitcom gag going back to Leave It To Beaver. So the title "make school lunches edible again" is bogus....school lunches have never, as far as I'm aware, been exciting and appealing to children, but they have always been edible.
You're being played. Those aren't real lunches, they're trays that have had food removed or all mixed together to make it look disgusting. This has already been laid to rest.
awpitt
Main Streeter
I didn't say that.
We didn't have that at my schools and my kids didn't have it at their schools. We all had mass produced chow that came out of a steam table. Nobody was frying our chicken to order or up at O-dark mashing potatoes.
my kid gets left overs ..... or something from the hot lunch line, if my wife knows its something she likes .... like Swedish Meat Malls or Sloppy Joes
scratch made meals ... no added bs
Okay, well, they're not going to get that at school. Sorry.
What's interesting is that all the righties moaning about these "school lunches" readily admit that their kid's school lunch doesn't look like that. So where are these horrifying lunches being served? Obviously not at the schools where conservative kids go.
This is a bogus issue and only dummies fall for it. If you are a dummy, by all means, rock on with your bad self. If you are not a dummy, however, stop repeating fake stories that you know are not true.
This is a bogus issue and only dummies fall for it. If you are a dummy, by all means, rock on with your bad self. If you are not a dummy, however, stop repeating fake stories that you know are not true.
black dog
Free America
Why not, all the years I was in public school all meals were prepared in house everyday.
Nothing was trucked in precooked or frozen and heated up in the oven or radar range.
My be frozen uncooked hamburger patty's.
Congratulations, Little House on the Prairie. In this millennium it's too expensive and cumbersome to feed 51 million students a lovingly prepared home cooked meal (that they're just going to throw away).
black dog
Free America
Restaurants around the world seem to get it done on a daily basis, and most don't have a good count of how many customers are going to show up for Tuesdays chicken dinner.
I grew up in Bethesda, I went to Grosvenor Elem School, North Bethesa JH and Walter Johnson HS in the suburbs.
In elementary and JH we checked off on a sheet if we were buying lunch every morning. It wasn't that difficult, and there were just as many kids in each school then as now.
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happyazz
Skiing in the clouds
Ketchup is not a vegetable. It is a fruit!!
So you think school children should pay $10+- for their school lunch? Because that's about how much restaurants charge.
black dog
Free America
I don't believe that a profit margin is needed in school cafeterias, but I do know that they cooked in-house for alot longer than they have been selling heat and serve.
And back when I was a kid we as a country didn't have a problem with children being overweight.
No profit, no overhead and no staffing.
There were just as many fat kids 50 years ago as there are today. You just didn't know about it because the internet wasn't hammering it into your brain every day.
PS, parents encouraged their kids to eat fruits and veggies back then, too...just like Michelle Obama!!!
black dog
Free America
So with that thinking the school system should be making a profit verses costing the taxpayers money?