Don’t get too wound up about this. Variations on this scheme have been around since the Great Depression, in a multitude of forms.
The first major program was to require Home Economics for all girls in high school. At its height, it was spectacularly successful, saving future families thousands or tens of thousands of dollars while significantly improving their quality of life.
But when Home Ec was mostly discontinued, the decline in home management knowledge and children’s nutrition was rapid. Soon there was a need for elementary schools to start providing free breakfasts as well as lunch, so they would at least get some vitamins.
Will this latest effort help? Marginally, at best. People raised to eat only rice and beans, or pizza and beer, or grits and grease, or whatever, are difficult to convince that eating something else might be good, too.
“rice and beans, or pizza and beer...”
What’s wrong with that? This only covers breakfast and lunch. Where’s dinner, cigars and Black Velvet?
Government losers don’t know how to make a useful food pyramid.