Posted on 01/28/2012 7:51:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
School lunches are about to get much healthier. First Lady Michelle Obama announced today that soon the meals will have less sodium, and will include more whole grains and more fruits and vegetables as sides. The new rules, which will go into effect in the 2012-2013 school year, will also allow schools to serve tofu and other soyfoods and soymilk to children who regularly consume them at home.
Obama said that children who are on a sugar high or have a tummy filled with high-sodium, greasy food have difficulty focusing on their schoolwork.
"As parents, we try to prepare decent meals, limit how much junk food our kids eat, and ensure they have a reasonably balanced diet," Obama said. "And when we're putting in all that effort, the last thing we want is for our hard work to be undone each day in the school cafeteria."
“Schools are finding that when they actually offer these healthier options, kids aren’t just willing to try them, they actually like them. That's the thing, that's the surprising thing,” Obama said. “I've been to so many schools across the country where parents see their kids eating fresh vegetables off the vine, kids they say would never try anything, but that's the beauty of children — they change.”
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This from the same government that declares Ketchup to be a vegetable, and sees no problems with a lunch that consists of pizza, corn and fries.
My grandchildren are back to making their own lunch and saving their parents a few bucks besides. It takes less time than going through the line at school, too.
If Michelle wanted a meaningful “cause” as first lady she should have chosen the depressed rate of marriage and astoundingly high out-of-wedlock birth rate among blacks.
She might have actually helped reduce the numbers of unfortunate black kids deprived of a father while being raised in one parent homes. In doing so she would have acccomplished something beneficial to blacks and the country.
She would have been able to exert influence among blacks that a white could not, and it would have been much less hypocritical on her part.
WHO DIED AND LEFT THE WOOKIE IN CHARGE OF SCHOOL LUNCH’S
Hasn’t she got a plane to catch?
I didn’t know there was a high out of wedlock birth rate for blacks I figured they just aborted them these days.
Guess you never know.
Just being facetious.
Who in the hell elected her to what office?
They are both high now aren't they?
Imagine what will happen when Roe v. Wade is overturned!
do as I say, not as I do... feh
Careful! That was a Reagan administration proposal!
Ketchup as a vegetable"The ketchup as a vegetable controversy refers to a proposed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Drug Administration directive, early in the presidency of Ronald Reagan, that would have reclassified ketchup and pickle relish from condiments to vegetables, allowing public schools to cut out a serving of cooked or fresh vegetable from hot lunch program child-nutrition requirements.
Reagan's FY1982 budget proposed $57 billion in spending cuts, with $27 billion of those cuts to entitlements. The budget was later modified and passed as the Gramm-Latta Budget which cut $1 billion from the school lunch program and tasked the USDA with coming up with a solution that maintained nutritional requirements for school lunches in spite of the lower funding.[1] On September 3, 1981, the Secretary of Agriculture proposed classifying ketchup and pickle relish as vegetables to save money on school lunch programs."
She is one ugly witch!!!
I often wonder what the count is on her wigs.
Nothing we see is her real hair.
I saw one picture of her a long time back when she was getting off the Marine helicopter at the White House & she has a ‘nappy head of her own hair’. Cut VERY short & it was very curly.
I don’t care whose idea it was..... it is still idiotic. And yes, they did classify it as such. My daughter was doing govt paperwork for the food they served the kids in her daycare and there it was.... ketchup as a veggie.
My point is that bureaucrats, I don’t care which party they are from, should be kept out of your life. Period.
Changing EBT cards to only pay for staples, fruits, and vegetables and requiring basic cooking and nutrition classes for recipients might help. Doing away with EBT cards or food stamps and giving basic staple "commodities" and requiring cooking and nutrition classes would be even better.
I don’t expect to see Roe V. Wade overturned in my lifetime.
Is this hog-of-a-grifter communist a nutritionist or something??? I thought she was a disbarred attorney.
Step on a crack and you’ll break your mother’s back. First thing that came to my mind.
Pffffft... how many American men do you know that can’t bowl, throw a baseball, or ride a bike without lookin like a fag?
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