I will Support Michelle in Every Way. They MUST EAT THEIR VEGGIES
Posted on 10/01/2012 7:04:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 10/01/2012 7:06:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
At Triangle Elementary School in Mount Dora, students shuffle through the lunch lines loading their plates with pears, plums, pizza slices and fruit slushies.
At the lunch tables, many devour the cheese-and-mushroom pizza, guzzle their milk but leave whole pears, ripened plums and the slushies destined for the garbage.
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I will Support Michelle in Every Way. They MUST EAT THEIR VEGGIES
I keep thinking, “where’s a nutritionists organization, a pediatric nursing organization, or a medical organization, to take a stand on this,” then realize they’re all essentially union and won’t. I thank God I don’t have a child or grand child in public school.
Kids are obese because they don’t get out and play.
They come home from school and plop down in front of their computer or TV, or TV to play Playstation/Xbox.
1) To the parents it’s a great/convenient babysitter.
2) Depending on where they live this is the safer alternative to the kids running around outside with all the freaks and pervs lurking about.
Just wait until the gubermint applies this logic to healthcare!
I treat any produce that says mexico as toxic or contaminated.
Make Home Ec a required course, teach them how to cook, what to do with fruits and vegetables, and how to shop for dinner on a budget. How to bake your own bread, mend a shirt, grow tomatoes and herbs in a window box. It will stand every one of them in good stead.
No, Johnny...growing “THAT” herb will not get you an “A”.
;^)
Have the kids put only what they’ll eat on their lunch trays. Have an after-school snack station where the kids can take home fresh veggies and fruit that weren’t eaten at lunch.
Either my school district is flying under the radar or have been complying with all these edicts before they came along, because each time I see one of these articles I either have my 14yo read it or mention it.
She has told me for several years - canned veggies get tossed, but when fresh are served you better be in line early. Living in a rural area may have something to do with that, because most of the kids are used to eating fresh fruits and vegetables. “Canned” to a lot of them is what comes out of the Mason jar on the pantry shelf that they helped pick or put up.
You learned to eat healthy thanks to your parents. Government has no business dictating what the kids eat or don’t.
but I remember many times a a young boy sitting at the table for extended periods of time until I ate my vegetables.
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Yeah, that should work. “You can’t go back to your class till you finish your veggies...
Like GRANDMA used to say
“Eat every bean and pee[sic] on your plate”.
OR (one of the “oldies but goodies”)
“Don’t put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear”.
“Kids are obese because they don’t get out and play.”
No, they aren’t. I produced a super geek, thanks to our technological age, who has always had access to junk food, and she’s skinny as a rail. I learned in nutrition class that if kids have access to a wide variety foods, that studies found they’d choose healthy food. I can’t tell you how many times I recycled the mini candy bar and chips in my daughter’s brown bag lunches. Kids are obese because of MSG (google MSG-rats) and high fructose corn syrup, as well as probably a few more food additives. I told my husband a couple days ago, I and most of my high school class mates ate at McDonalds every day and in a class of 300, we had one obese person who’d been that way from elementary school.
I keep thinking of this old cartoon where Porky is force-fed all these deserts to cure him of his piggieness.
My son was always hungry when he was growing up. He played three sports and was always trying to gain weight. He is still thin at 28. Last night, he called while on his way home from work. He was on his way to Braum’s, where he was going to buy 5 hamburgers for $5.00, and he was planning to eat all of them. It’s a metabolism thing. I can’t imagine the school giving him 2 ounces of protein for lunch when he was in high school.
The youth of America had better get used to the government shoving things down their throats, literally and figuratively. They are being educated in government schools, fed government food, taking out government-owned student loans, getting government healthcare, and working about half the year to pay for government.
In everything they do in life, they will be following government guidelines, getting government licenses, tip-toeing through a minefield of government regulations, and watching government propaganda on their TV and internet.
They are government livestock on a government tax and debt farm, owned from cradle to grave.
Desserts
You brought your empty tray to the cafeteria window to trade for a desert. Uneaten food on your tray meant no desert.
Of course, we learned how to stuff a lot of icky food into an empty milk carton to give the appearance that we'd eaten all of our food. But there was a limit on what you could stuff into the empty milk carton. And you learned to drop it into the trash bin ever so gently because if there was a tell-tale thud, the lunch ladies would fish it out of the trash, open it and dump it on your tray and tell you to either skip desert or finish your food.
They weren't squeamish about doing it either.
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