Posted on 06/24/2015 2:04:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules.
During a hearing before the House, a school administrator told Congress of the “unintended consequences” of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
“Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food,” said John S. Payne.
“Students are avoiding cafeteria food,” Payne said. “More students bring their lunch, and a few parents even ‘check out’ their child from campus, taking them to a local fast-food restaurant or home for lunch.”
Payne also said school fundraisers like bake sales, have been canceled due to the rules, and “whole-grain items and most of the broccoli end up in the trash” in his district.
Dr. Lynn Harvey agreed that the whole-grain requirement is not working, as kids refuse to eat dense and dry biscuits, and “unpalatable” grits.
“When it comes to whole grain-rich variations of biscuits, grits, crackers and cornbread, all too often, students simply toss them into the trash cans,” said Harvey, who serves as chief of school nutrition services at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, which oversees lunch programs for schools that enroll 1.5 million students.
“This product dissatisfaction has contributed to a decline in breakfast participation in 60 percent of North Carolina’s school districts,” she said.
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The Mooch intends on fighting childhood obesity by starving children with food unfit for prisoners.
Untold millions of dollars worth of taxpayer funded “food” thrown directly in the garbage so a flaming liberal idiot can feel good about herself.
News for the diet jerks: a reasonable amount of salt is good for you.
Insufficient salt is bad for you.
You don’t see her dog as it has already been shot.
Meanwhile Mooch’s kids pig out on gourmet fare at their posh private school. FUMO.
It is NOT about feeling good about herself. It is about asserting power over children in an attempt to acclimate them to submit to fedgov authority.
And it is backfiring!
Hey, if its good enough for the north koreans, then its good enough for our kids.
The left have declared Mrs. Dash as contraband.
That’s how far we’ve fallen.
Ooh...somebody with a sense of business opportunity is likely to clean out the little paper packets of salt at the nearest fast food emporium. Here ya go, Suzy - first one’s free...
Neither Michelle, nor her 2 kids, nor her husband would eat that crap.
You know how much fed money is used for MO’s school lunch program? For the product they put out, you just know it is another graft funneling money to MO/BO donors/supporters.
Somebodies made off with all the money.
Well, maybe Michelle is doing conservatives a favor after all.
Of course not. She dines on $125/lb Kobe steak and $100/oz caviar at the taxpayer expense.
It would be shocking to see real numbers for the dollar value of food deposited in the trash cans since the inception of Michelle’s lunch restrictions.
LOL! Free Markets will always find a way! Kudos to the kids!
Gimmedat school lunch for vegans
Gimmedat school lunch for vegans
Gimmedat school lunch for vegans
It's good enough for me.
It was good for Obama
It was good for Obama
It was good for Obama
And it's good enough for me.
(/s) It's got lots of soluble fiber
It's got lots of soluble fiber
It's got lots of soluble fiber
It's good enough for me.
Gimme Michelle's lunch for vegans
Gimme Michelle's lunch for vegans
Gimme Michelle's lunch for vegans
It's good enough for me!
How in the H does the Arugula Queen has any control over the school lunches?
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