Yup, we had those when I was a kid as well. Still only one fat kid that I can remember.
Yes and they turned into fat adults! I don't know why anyone is trying to argue that eating fatty/processed foods will help make you fatter and lead to serious helath problems down the line.
I think it points to a very different issue: We're so jilted as a society that kids don't appreciate food when it's given. They assume it will always be there, and they're picky as hell. . . whereas other kids would give anything if they could have what our kids throw away.
It peeves me to no end my kids just take their food for granted (and we pay full price for ours) and I can't police them during lunch to make sure they eat it all.
We're a spoiled freaking country. . . filled with people who whine that "I don't like FRUIT" - nature's candy and they don't like it? Oh - but if they were Snicker's it would just be wrappers in the trash.
Meanwhile - cost for meals in our district has gone up .20/meal - for the same stuff that they only eat half of.
Glad to read that at least some schools are saying thanks but no thanks. However, there have been some incidences in schools where they have food police actually checking the lunches of packers and if they didn't find the lunch to meet their level of nutritional value, would then take the lunch from the child, make them eat in the cafeteria and then send a bill to the parent for the school lunch.
I do think the new calorie limits are unreasonably low. Especially for older kids, and double-especially for active older kids that play sports.
well then I guess its settled....:roll:
it is when you count fires as a veggie and they have burger and fries.
I pretty much completely agree with this, but I think it can be taken a bit farther. Why don't they like the taste? Some foods you just naturally like the first time you taste them, but many are an acquired taste. If a kid hasn't been exposed to certain foods early, it's less likely they're going to be open-minded later.I don't think kids think about healthy or unhealthy.
The either like the taste or not.
If the kids are rejecting the food it is because of the taste and not because it is healthy.
The schools have to try harder to serve food that is healthy and tastes good.
I still remember pizza day. I had to go to school that day.
Greetings Ec60,.
Where did that happen? I found one story about a North Carolina girl being sent home with her lunch and being offered chicken nuggets at school instead, but I did also notice that the story was only reported on far right-wing websites and I have a hard time sometimes with articles that come out only on one side of the spectrum. Regardless of the politics involved I would say that a further investigation should be done on that particular inspector and should he be found faulty on his judgments, he should lose his job.
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I pretty much completely agree with this, but I think it can be taken a bit farther. Why don't they like the taste? Some foods you just naturally like the first time you taste them, but many are an acquired taste. If a kid hasn't been exposed to certain foods early, it's less likely they're going to be open-minded later.
The fact is that you cannot control what people do in their house, so you have to provide something the kids are going to like or they won't eat it.
The fact is that you cannot control what people do in their house, so you have to provide something the kids are going to like or they won't eat it.
If we are supposed to be fat then exactly why aren't we?
This is a big reason why so many pre-packaged foods contain so much sugar and sodium. I'll admit that I was literally shocked when I first learned that store-bought pasta sauces (i.e.: Prego, etc.) contain high-fructose corn syrup as their first listed ingredient.The problem is that it easy to get used to for example salt and sugar. If you for example eat little sugar, an apple can taste really sweet and good, if you consume a lot of sugar in your diet the apple will not taste sweet at all and probably taste like crap.
The big food corporation of course know this and will try anything they can to get kids used to sugar and salt. By ads and putting a lot of it in products targeted for kids.
This is of course a problem for schools. If they provide food without a lot of sugar and salt the kids used to sugar and salt will probably think it taste like crap. The other option is putting a lot of sugar and salt in the food and that's not healthy at all. Also the kids not used to alot of sugar and salt will maybee first think it almost discustingly sweet and salty. But probably soon adapt and also only want to eat food with alot of sugar and salt. That you can easily get used to eating a lot of sugar and salt, but of course also get used to not eat, but it takes a lot more time and effort escecially if it easily available.
In the future, we will all look like the folks from Wall-E.
KIDS ARE GOING HUNGRY and FOOD JUST GETS TRASHED. Isn't government wonderful?
ROTFLOL... typical of government. They stick their nose in, waste taxpayer money, and Fail. In most cases they just pour in more money, but it's not so easy here... you can bring a kid to ObamaMeals but you can't force them to eat. No eat, no money, no profit.
It's not so much what people eat that causes obesity, it's how much they eat.
Doh Homer... no chit.
Now I see why the fattest states in America are all deep read.
1. Mississippi
2. Louisiana
3. West Virginia
4. Alabama
5. Michigan
6. Oklahoma
7. Arkansas
8. Indiana
8. South Carolina
10. Kentucky
10. Texas
Most and Least Obese U.S. States - US News and World Report
KIDS ARE GOING HUNGRY and FOOD JUST GETS TRASHED. Isn't government wonderful?
ROTFLOL... typical of government. They stick their nose in, waste taxpayer money, and Fail. In most cases they just pour in more money, but it's not so easy here... you can bring a kid to ObamaMeals but you can't force them to eat. No eat, no money, no profit.
It's not so much what people eat that causes obesity, it's how much they eat.
Doh Homer... no chit.
Greetings Ec60,
Maybe you missed the stories covering Chicago schools down right denying students to bring their lunches from home.
Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight
I don't know about you, but I find that rather over the top when a parent can no longer decide what their child will eat for lunch.
So yes I am very happy to see some school districts tell Michelle Obama to take her health food crusade and stick it. The same Michelle that serves Sweet Potato Pie, fine wines at every White House function, Kobe beef for their guests, extravagant desserts that most salivate over that would never meet her hypocritical agenda of what she calls "healthy". Cheers!.
This is a big reason why so many pre-packaged foods contain so much sugar and sodium. I'll admit that I was literally shocked when I first learned that store-bought pasta sauces (i.e.: Prego, etc.) contain high-fructose corn syrup as their first listed ingredient.
I've been making my own pasta sauce and freezing it ever since, about 5 years now.
The Government's Food Pyramid Correlates to Obesity, Critics Say
While the government has stood by this regimen for 11 years, some critics say it's no coincidence that the number of overweight Americans has risen 61% since the pyramid was introduced
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023915818486451160.djm,00.html
She's a first lady who stuck her nose into the issue. So yes... she is largely responsible for the latest government mess... and you don't think she would take full credit if it were successful? Thank God it wasn't, because this strips her of any future grand plans for us plebes.That is unfortunate, but I don't think it's fair to solely blame Michelle Obama for these choices...
You understand she is the First Lady of the United States of America, right?...
That is unfortunate, but I don't think it's fair to solely blame Michelle Obama for these choices. Where it may have been her steps to push schools into creating healthy menu styles, I still haven't seen, directly from her, the ruling that certain states are to completely ban brought in lunches. Maybe that particular Chicago school itself chose those drastic measures? If that is the case then maybe that was that schools first step towards correcting their current problem? Do I agree that parents shouldn't be able to send their children to school with their own lunch, no? Do I think that a lot of parents are uninformed and manipulative and are willing to put their own children's health aside to send them to school with a terribly crappy meal just to "stick it to Michelle Obama for being a selfish, 'Sweet Potato Pie, fine wines at every White House function, Kobe beef for their guests, extravagant desserts that most salivate over that would never meet her hypocritical agenda of what she calls 'healthy'"? Absolutely.
You understand she is the First Lady of the United States of America, right? You get that it would be impolite of her to serve anything less than "extravagant foods that most people would salivate over" to her guests at the White House, right? You understand that there is also at least one White House chef that is creating these meals and that she herself is not in the kitchen coming up with these dishes and laughing maniacally over the fact that there are "starving children all across this country" because she is trying to change that foods that are offered to them at schools and encourage a more active lifestyle, right? ... Because I really don't think you get that. It actually seems to me that you moreso just really hate her husband, and therefore her, and scrutinize everything they do and then hate it just for the sake of hating in, instead of really paying attention that what and who you are hating. That's a shame.
Do I think that a lot of parents are uninformed and manipulative and are willing to put their own children's health aside to send them to school with a terribly crappy meal just to "stick it to Michelle Obama for being a selfish, 'Sweet Potato Pie, fine wines at every White House function, Kobe beef for their guests, extravagant desserts that most salivate over that would never meet her hypocritical agenda of what she calls 'healthy'"? Absolutely.
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