Posted on 12/17/2011 8:33:29 PM PST by Steelfish
L.A. Schools' Healthful Lunch Menu Panned By Students For many students, Los Angeles Unified's introduction of healthful lunches — part of a campaign against obesity, diabetes and other problems — has been a flop. The district says the menu will be revised.
By Teresa Watanabe December 17, 2011 It's lunchtime at Van Nuys High School and students stream into the cafeteria to check out the day's fare: black bean burgers, tostada salad, fresh pears and other items on a new healthful menu introduced this year by the Los Angeles Unified School District.
But Iraides Renteria and Mayra Gutierrez don't even bother to line up. Iraides said the school food previously made her throw up, and Mayra calls it "nasty, rotty stuff." So what do they eat? The juniors pull three bags of Flamin' Hot Cheetos and soda from their backpacks.
"This is our daily lunch," Iraides says. "We're eating more junk food now than last year."
For many students, L.A. Unified's trailblazing introduction of healthful school lunches has been a flop. Earlier this year, the district got rid of chocolate and strawberry milk, chicken nuggets, corn dogs, nachos and other food high in fat, sugar and sodium. Instead, district chefs concocted such healthful alternatives as vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad Thai noodles.
There's just one problem: Many of the meals are being rejected en masse. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by thousands of students. Principals report massive waste, with unopened milk cartons and uneaten entrees being thrown away. Students are ditching lunch, and some say they're suffering from headaches, stomach pains and even anemia. At many campuses, an underground market for chips, candy, fast-food burgers and other taboo fare is thriving.
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Privatization, competition, and ownership stake in the end product and results.
There you go trying to be all logical and sensible again...
Check out what Sasha & Malia eat at Sidwell Friends ...
http://www.sidwell.edu/documents/menus/ls_11-21-11.pdf
http://www.sidwell.edu/documents/menus/ms-us_11-21-11.pdf
Are those things made with gravel?
I've got it! The Andromeda Strain! It's dividing!
“Our son is a high school swimmer, and he has been complaining that the new menu is so low in fat, carbs and calories that the lunches leave him hungry. I’ve already written a complaint to the food service director.”
Why not send him with a bag lunch with some sandwiches?
I don’t understand why the gov’t school is in charge of feeding the kids.
Bean sprouts and mush.
Gee, why don’t these kids chow down on such delicacies?
How much taxpayer money has been spent on this liberal food fantasy?
What is the cost of the uneaten “healthful menu” food that is trashed every day?
Liberals!
It’s not that they don’t know anything - it’s that everything they know is wrong.
Since it's an L.A. school, shouldn't that be En Masa?
Kids bringing in forbidden snacks? Where are the Cheeto sniffing dogs? Search those backpacks and lockers for Snickers and chips!
Those kids can learn to love tofu pizza with okra sauce and black bean paste burgers.
Hold the phone!! Are you sure those are not pot laced chocolate chip cookies?
Those things look like dry catfood after it is barfed up by kitteh. LOL
Bait and switch to prison food.
Among other complaints, Vanderbok said salads dated Oct. 7 were served Oct. 17. (Binkle said the dates indicate when the food is at its highest quality, not when it goes bad. They have been removed to avoid misinterpretation.)
Yeah, that'll make the kids want to eat the gruel.
I never ate that stuff.
I graduated in 1971 and I think school lunches are the reason that frozen pizza tastes good to me - if it didn’t have a red sauce on it, it wasn’t worth eating.
“Meanwhile Michelle’s in Hawaii doing some fine dining”.
Meanwhile Michelle’s in Hawaii doing some fine dining at taxpayers expense.
there, fixed that,
“Who the hell wants beef nugget teriyaki with rice?”
Me! I love that kinda stuff.
“What’s a black bean burger? A vegan creation?”
Yeah Jack. But I’ve tried them, and they were quite good. Gave me the winds somethin’ fierce though!
If the students won’t eat government food, then the government needs to shut down all business associated with the production of non-government approved foods. /statist
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