Posted on 05/06/2014 5:55:40 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“If the kids don’t eat the food, then all I have is healthy trash cans,”
Box it all up and send it to the Mooch.
And breakfasts. One of my favorite common scenes was in some of the schools where everyone was so poor they had to be given free breakfast and lunch. Some kids would get the breakfast, throw it in the trash, and sit in the cafeteria with their bags of McDonald's.
Has anyone noticed that obesity and childhood diabetes have exploded since the kids have been force-fed two of their free daily meals?
The whole assumption of feeding growing children the same thing at the same time is insane. Different children have differnt needs, based on age, size, activity level, food preferences, growth spurts,....
They could save all kinds of money by eliminating school lunches. How did we get so entangled in all of this nonsense in the first place? Let the students bring their own lunches.
Back when I was in elementary school, the school didn’t have a kitchen. We had to bring lunch from home, because there was no lunch served at school.
If they are giving food which kids won’t eat, what’s the point? I know we’re supposed to be liberal, and say that some kids don’t get fed at home and school is the only place they get fed. That’s another discussion altogether. But maybe school lunch programs are just an inefficient bureaucracy, which is not accomplishing any good goals.
I saw Anthony Bourdain’s recent episode on his trip to Lyon, France. He visited an elementary school cafeteria for lunch. They had pumpkin soup, braised fish, some kind of couscous with grains, and farmer’s cheese with chocolate swirls and orange slices, all served at the table by the staff.
It looked delicious, and cost only $1.60, as opposed to the $2.75 Americans spend on our school lunches.
When my children were much younger (now 46) I went on a health food kick. Every so often, my daughter says, the da that you made us eat whole wheat pizza was the worse day of my life.
These nutrition mandates may be what kills the bloated school lunch program. People stop signing up and paying for it because no one eats it.
Thanks for the ping!
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