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'Unhealthy' corn dogs, chicken nuggets out, sushi in at L.A. schools
L.A. Times Blogs ^ | June 15, 2011 | Mary MacVean

Posted on 06/16/2011 2:56:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The L.A. school board's decision to stop serving flavored milks on campuses is just the beginning.

A menu overhaul is underway that will mean fewer meals that resemble fast food and more vegetarian offerings. Spinach tortellini in butternut squash sauce and California sushi rolls, along with many ethnic foods, are to be added.

Corn dogs, chicken nuggets and other breaded items are out, said Dennis Barrett, food services director.

Megan Bomba, a project coordinator with Occidental College's Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, agreed with the move, saying "the meal needs to be better, not [that] we need to keep chocolate milk" to attract students to the cafeteria, she said.

The menu proposed for fall sounds more appealing and sophisticated, she added.

The district banned sodas on campuses in 2004, starting a trend followed by the state as well as districts across the country. Later that year, the school board passed a motion to ban the sale of junk food during the school day...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Government; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: lausd; nannystate; nutrition; schoollunches
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To: Melas

I am gonna disagree on that Melas. Too much chopping of veggies and fish-type-pre-cooked-stuff. Not something a typical school cafeteria can do safely. Worker safety and bio-safety.

You want a public school cafeteria worker using a mandolin? And certainly not one wielding a cleaver in skinnier than julienne slicing of veggies.

Not even considering the raw fish — that’s wholly out of the question.

But I’m no master of school cafeteria costs and management. Still, it is something that seems scary to me.


61 posted on 06/16/2011 5:13:38 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw

I figured they’d just get in boxes like the grocery store does. I have no qualms about consuming irradiated fish. It might not be the tastiest, but it’s probably the safest food you’ll ever find.


62 posted on 06/16/2011 5:16:01 PM PDT by Melas (Sent via Galaxy Tab)
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To: Melas

Valid point, I’ll give you the quibble. :-)


63 posted on 06/16/2011 5:16:17 PM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: Melas

The grocery stores here prepare the sushi themselves. I thought the sushi cook did the all slicing of the stuff, because they are specialists, but now I’ll have to ask. In any case even the cheapest boxed sushi is over $5. That’s not school cafeteria territory, is it?


64 posted on 06/16/2011 5:20:36 PM PDT by bvw
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To: RedMonqey
“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “’UNHEALTGHY FOOD”

I beg to differ. Processed food is so completely stripped of all nutrients, bacteria won't even touch it. Most of the produce we eat is chemically enhanced and picked while still “green” so it can be shipped across the country. Regular farm animals are raised in cages while being fed the cheapest garbage and chemicals the farmer can get away with. Fish is farmed about the same way.

I started eating all organic about 5 years ago when I lived near lots of Amish farms. Including homemade icecream, cookies, fried food, etc. In 6 months, with no other lifestyle changes, I lost 50lbs and felt better than I ever remembered.

Humans were meant to eat natural produce ripe from plants and meat from healthy roaming animals. All this factory food is garbage. Try switching for just a few weeks and tell me how you feel.

65 posted on 06/16/2011 5:35:27 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: driftdiver

Just cover those nuggets with paste - the little kids will eat them... :)


66 posted on 06/16/2011 5:52:01 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

One of my grandsons would only eat hot dogs or chicken nuggets for dinner and PB&J for lunch until he turned 18. He’s doing just fine. I still don’t know what’s wrong with parents sending a PB&J sandwich, a piece of fruit and a cookie in a brown bag. Friday can be pizza day. Let the school provide a carton of milk and get rid of all the rest of this stuff.


67 posted on 06/16/2011 5:58:47 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: bvw

The stuff here comes pre-boxed. There is no in store preparation required at all.

I think the cheapest is $4.99, and the seaside combo, my favorite is $8.99, but it’s almost entirely sashimi except for the shrimp which is cooked.


68 posted on 06/16/2011 6:11:39 PM PDT by Melas (Sent via Galaxy Tab)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just banning chocolate milk would’ve had me leaving school and joining the hobos down the railroad tracks.


69 posted on 06/16/2011 7:11:03 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Middle class folks will pack lunches for their children. It’s the free lunch demographic that will be impacted by this.

Maybe that will teach them to not rely on the gov’t.


70 posted on 06/16/2011 7:25:41 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I hope some kid finds a fishing hook in his lunch and sues the hell out of them. Ethnic foods? Does this mean the anchor babies still get tacos?


71 posted on 06/16/2011 7:49:08 PM PDT by BigCinBigD ("We hold it in our power, tio begin the world anew")
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To: MetaThought

When the kids go to the hospital and the lawsuits start they’ll go back to nuggets and dogs.


72 posted on 06/16/2011 8:42:01 PM PDT by Califreak (I heard Reagan is back and this time he's Jewish...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


73 posted on 06/16/2011 9:03:01 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: MamaDearest

It’s incrementalism. They got the smokers.

If the Statists told you what their real agenda is, normal Americans would be repulsed.


74 posted on 06/16/2011 9:26:07 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Beware of the Socialist Government-Academia Grant Junkie-Rich "non-profit"-Liberal Media Complex)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I don’t have children and even I know that kids hate these types of foods...


75 posted on 06/17/2011 6:06:40 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Nobody ever got intestinal worms from a corn dog.

Just saying.

Quality sushi is delicious. Sushi by bureaucrats though? And how’s a rambunctious growing kid going to get enough carbs for energy from a bunch of salmon roe and rice??


76 posted on 06/17/2011 6:10:26 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (BUY AMERICAN. The job you save will be your son's, or your daughter's)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They’ll have to increase their budget, dontchaknow, because one of the reasons your average school lunch takes the form it does now is because of government meddling in the farm sector...cheap meat and cheese.


77 posted on 06/17/2011 7:32:46 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
So this year they went the “spinach tortellini and squash” route, and my son says most kids throw it away.

Let me guess, nasty canned spinach filling, overcooked pasta and diluted tomato paste as sauce. My kids love mac & cheese, but they hate it when my neighbor makes it because she cooks the noodles to mush.

78 posted on 06/17/2011 8:15:38 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Sacajaweau

That would be perfect. Endless variety.


79 posted on 06/17/2011 8:20:36 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: bgill

I think one problem is that not much actual cooking goes on in a lot of school kitchens.


80 posted on 06/17/2011 8:21:55 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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