Posted on 11/18/2013 3:53:48 PM PST by Mean Daddy
It's quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Government's Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article incorrectly pointed at the Manitoba Child Care Association as the source of the strangely interpreted policy). Apparently if a child's lunch is deemed "unbalanced", where "balance" refers to ensuring that a lunch conforms to the proportions of food groups as laid out by Canada's awful Food Guide, then that child's lunch is "supplemented", and their parent is fined.
Blog reader Kristen Bartkiw received just such a fine.
She sent her children to daycare with with lunches containing leftover homemade roast beef and potatoes, carrots, an orange and some milk.
She did not send along any "grains".
As a consequence the school provided her children with, I kid you not, supplemental Ritz Crackers, and her with a $10 fine.
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I’d tell the school to KMA
Bump
I made some really delicious mini-Sliders recently with Ritz crackers instead of buns.
Depends on the fruits though. The ‘sweet’ fruits aren’t much better on your blood sugar/insulin response than ordinary desserts. If we’re talking blueberries and other non sweet fruits I’ll agree wholeheartedly.
Funny thing though. My grandmother took one look at the food pyramid and said ‘If you ate this way you’d weigh 300lbs!’. Back when pretty much nobody weighed 300lbs. If only she’d lived a few more years she would have been so shocked!
“She did not send along any “grains”. “
Most grains are very high glycemic and contribute to, rather than prevent, obesity.
And your average Canadian thinks they live in utopia.
Hey! Wait a minit! I do weigh 300 lbs!
“lunch regulations”
Can ONLY apply to what the school serves!
They HAVE NO JURISDICTION over what the parents provide!!!!
The potatoes, carrots and orange are better carbs for the kiddo anyway. There’s no need for grains—and certainly not for Ritz crackers!
I don’t eat or feed my kids HFCS or hydrogenated oils, and I’d blow a gasket if somebody fed my kids these things. Don’t even get me started on food dyes. However, others are free to feed their kids whatever they want.
/johnny
And how much did you weigh in 1990?
And your friends/family as well?
Look at old pictures from 1990. There are hardly any truly obese people in them. The change is amazing.
I’m thinking gluten free diet.
How I wish my kids were in school these days I would be paying them a visit regularly
Yet another reason to Homeshool!
I made the mistake of trying that once. Gluten-free bread tastes like and has the consistency of sawdust. Avid gluten, if you insist, but don't try to eat things that ought to have gluten in them.
In 1990? maybe 280-ish?
You know what to do.
At our Christian school one of the teachers brought in Al Gore’s movie to teach global warming.
He didn’t work there the following year. Had this not been stopped the kids would have been pulled no questions. The thing is, at least in theory you have more influence in a school where you are paying the bills directly.
You’re right. You have to be vigilant even in a Christian school.
And to stick their fine,
Where the sun don’ shine.
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