Posted on 09/05/2014 10:48:24 AM PDT by Raebie
CHICAGO – Hummus is too fatty, pretzels are too salty. Even hard-boiled eggs and yogurt don’t make the cut.
Those restrictions and others imposed on schools through the revamped “healthier” National School Lunch Program convinced officials in Illinois’ second largest school district to forfeit nearly $1 million in federal lunch aid to serve students food they want to eat, rather than what the government tells them to, CBS reports.
“So far so good. The meals, as you’ve seen, look fantastic, and there’s a lot of excitement,” District 214 Associate Superintendent Cathy Johnson told the news station as officials recently unveiled their new menu.
The federal “healthier” school lunch overhaul, championed by First Lady Michelle Obama, has been a boondoggle for public schools across the country. The tightened restrictions, intended to combat childhood obesity, have driven more than 1 million students away from school lunches and created over $1 billion per year in food waste since they were implemented in 2012.
The drastic drop-off in lunch sales is prompting an increasing number of school districts to ditch the regulations and attached federal funding to save their floundering cafeteria programs. Just this week, two other New York school districts dropped out.
District 214 administrators told CBS the unreasonable restrictions on protein, sodium and fat made preparing meals students would buy nearly impossible, while the district-inspired menu “would be far simpler,” according to Johnson.
Crispy falafel with flatbread and rice pilaf, and pasta primavera with roasted vegetables and olive oil – two new menu items in District 214’s lineup – would have violated the federal regulations because of low protein content, for example.
“What would happen is the sales simply wouldn’t be there, and the offerings that we would currently have wouldn’t be available,” Johnson told CBS.
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When did she become a legislator?
No doubt that Sibley School in DC is following these guidelines to the letter.
You think the bitty would share some of her lobster!
Instead, schools pump the boys full of drugs and turn them into zombies in the name of fighting ADD-ADHD. The mostly all female staff is happy now there aren't boys disrupting classes and these zombies sit in class like the good girls they've been tranquillized to be like.
As a kid, and I assure you I was not deprived, I felt like I was starving before lunch and dinner. The meals back in the 60’s were nutritious, but insufficient for my needs. I can only imagine a meal containing hummus. (Gad, I hate hummus.)
Hummus is what, chick peas, olive oil and seasonings? What’s too fatty about that? Olive oil is good fat, right?
Lunch Lady Mooch fail.
Feed them Low fat low protein diets when their brains are developing and you will have an army of malleable brain dead zombies...
My girls went to a public elementary school - and they did have one recess. However, for their middle school years, we were able to send them to a small, private Christian school. There, they had two recesses - morning and afternoon - because the administration realized the wisdom for these kids to get out and run around a bit. :)
That food looks to be more at home in the mideast then Illinois.
I guess that's what she's thinking.
You are exactly right about getting out and blowing off steam. Kids need a break to be kids and burn off that huge surplus of energy they have. Sitting in a chair for hour after hour is not only boring, but it is not healthy for youngsters. Why is this such a huge concept our “educators” can’t understand? When the kids get into middle or junior high and high school they need some kind of organized exercise. It is even more important at grade school level where the kids are bubbling over with energy that needs burning off. This is not rocket science.
What do legislators have to do with laws?
That's so 20th Century. Where have you been?
My sons lunch for today (ham and cheese sandwich, yoo-hoo and a mounds bar ). Tonight’s menu...steak, potatoes and milk...then homemade cookies.
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