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Parent-packed lunches often not healthy, study says
Orlando Sentinel ^ | , August 12, 2014 | Leslie Postal

Posted on 08/12/2014 8:08:54 PM PDT by moonshinner_09

Edited on 08/12/2014 8:22:35 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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School lunches were never a problem if I go back to may grandparents,my father and mother and my self we were educated enough of how and what we wanted to eat But now schools are trying to tell parents what and how to pack lunches for their kids It should be none of the schools business what parents pack for their child lunches
1 posted on 08/12/2014 8:08:54 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

At least the kids will eat something. With the Moochel menu, most of the food goes into the trash.


2 posted on 08/12/2014 8:11:02 PM PDT by doc1019
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3 posted on 08/12/2014 8:11:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: moonshinner_09

BS!


4 posted on 08/12/2014 8:11:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: moonshinner_09

Well, school lunch prices just keep increasing and taxpayers can not afford to allow their kids to buy school lunches every day even if they wanted to. Ofcourse, the protected classes, their kids eat free or drastically reduced.


5 posted on 08/12/2014 8:12:48 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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Just speculating...Perhaps parents pack food that their kids will actually eat, thereby giving them at least some nutrition, and avoiding wasted food.

School programs, on the other hand, are content with the zero nutrition and wasted food associated with abandoned “healthy” meals.


6 posted on 08/12/2014 8:13:20 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: moonshinner_09
School-prepared lunches (part of the federal school lunch program) include a fruit or vegetable, low-fat milk, limited unhealthy fats and whole grains.

... and fill the trash cans with uneaten items.

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It doesn't matter how supposedly healthy the meals are. If the kids won't eat them, they become slop for hog farms.
7 posted on 08/12/2014 8:14:54 PM PDT by TomGuy
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“The researchers snapped digital photos of the kids’ lunches”

Think they got the parents’ permission? I hope some kid slapped the camera out of their hands and stepped on it.


8 posted on 08/12/2014 8:18:41 PM PDT by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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“....Lunches from home — most presumably parent-packed — fell far short of the nutrition guidelines required for the lunches served by schools, said the researchers from Tufts University in Boston. In home-packed lunches, they found snacks trumped fruit, for example...”

Curious as to where in the Constitution it’s any of the governments damned business what foods I put in my lunch, or my kids lunch.

We need to throw a whole bunch of nosy, self righteous, busybody, Democrats the ‘H’ out of our government so we can get on with the business of living, and producing for ourselves, and our families without worrying the government will be giving our money away to colleges to write up reports such as this.


9 posted on 08/12/2014 8:20:26 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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Hard to believe I turned out as well as I did on liverwurst sandwiches, pickles and Twinkies in my lunchbox.

*SWOON* To this DAY - crack open a package of Braunschweiger with a side of Gherkins and I will follow you into battle...and we will WIN! :)

The Twinkie? I traded that for ammo and smokes...


10 posted on 08/12/2014 8:20:43 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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F*ck off! lunch NAZIs. Sometimes I can’t believe this is America.


11 posted on 08/12/2014 8:21:24 PM PDT by dinodino
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Yeah, mom packs celery sticks and the kid does not eat them. So, she packs a gogurt and soon the kid tires of them. So, after racking her brain to figure out what else she can put into the kid's lunch that is healthy, she realizes that if the kid at least eats something nutritious then that is good. So, the kid eats a fruit, a sandwich and a treat.

Moochie wants to hold our kid's noses and force them to eat "cardboard."

Good luck, Moochie.

12 posted on 08/12/2014 8:23:36 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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Sometimes I can’t believe this is America.

It hasn't been for a long time.

13 posted on 08/12/2014 8:23:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: moonshinner_09

Low fat dairy?

For an active kid, high fat dairy is preferable.


14 posted on 08/12/2014 8:23:57 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Hard to believe I turned out as well as I did on liverwurst sandwiches, pickles and Twinkies in my lunchbox.

My dad used to make us kids meatloaf sandwiches.

15 posted on 08/12/2014 8:25:35 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Healthy or not, it’s not the business of the government.


16 posted on 08/12/2014 8:26:12 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Why are schools involved in lunch?

Every day I had the same lunch: PBJ on wheat bread with a side of Fritos followed by a chocolate chip cookie. My thermos of milk finished the course.

I just turned 65 and am healthy.


17 posted on 08/12/2014 8:27:35 PM PDT by Loud Mime (arguetheconstitution.com See if the video makes sense to you.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Government is incapable of imposing Heaven on Earth and all such attempts have the opposite result.


18 posted on 08/12/2014 8:29:14 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: lepton

You got it!

All this low fat nonsense is bad for the brain.

The brain needs fat and its the fastest growing organ at that age.


19 posted on 08/12/2014 8:30:36 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: rockinqsranch

“Curious as to where in the Constitution it’s any of the governments damned business what foods I put in my lunch, or my kids lunch”

that’s the whole thing in a nutshell. but in this Marxist cuckoo land we live in, only crazy ideas mean anything.


20 posted on 08/12/2014 8:31:34 PM PDT by willywill
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