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Sorry, Michelle:

New York school drops Michelle Obama lunch standards: Kids too hungry


New York's Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake school district has become the latest casualty in first lady Michelle Obama’s preferred lunch plan, dropping the menu after too many students complained of hunger.

“[Food service manager Nicky] Boehm and her staff worked hard to implement the new regulations, but there were just too many problems and too many foods that students did not like and would not purchase,” said Assistant Superintendent Chris Abdoo about the Nationalaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png School Lunch Program in a statement reported by EAGNews.org. “Students complained of being hungry with these lunches and the district lost money.”

The school systemaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png decided to instead create its own lunch menu for next year.

The district lost about $100,000 trying out the federal menu, which offered such meals as “part” of a chicken patty on a minicroissant, EAGNews.org reported.

“Students felt they weren’t getting good valueaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png for their money,” Ms. Boehm said in EAGNews.org. “The high schoolers especially complained the portion sizes were too small and many more students brought in lunch from home.”

This isn’t the first school to drop the federal lunch menu plan. Catlin, Ill., schools did the same, calling the guidelines too “restrictive,” EAGNews.org reported.


Complete text: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/9/new-york-school-drops-michelle-obama-lunch-standar/



Can't understand it. Who wouldn't want “part of a chicken patty on a minicroissant" for lunch? Go figure.



 
PhilFish said:
kids are trained to want junk. it is no surprise it fails. that's not Michelle Obama's fault, but that of parents providing shit for fuel.
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Hospitals provide healthy food but only a very sick person wouldn't complain about how crappy it is. That is a quote from my 86 yr. old dad who has spent the last 2 weeks in the hospital
 
lupehernandezdepedajack said:
Hospitals provide healthy food but only a very sick person wouldn't complain about how crappy it is. That is a quote from my 86 yr. old dad who has spent the last 2 weeks in the hospital
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Point being..if a broader food pallet isn't instilled in a child..then unless it's a chicken nugget...it'll be viewed as crap..
 
Wahbooz said:
Steam it, you don't have to eat it raw.
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Even steamed broccoli is tough for a toothless guy. I have gotten in the habit of taking my dad a nutrablast with a mixture of fruit and vegetables every evening . We make them as tasty as possible. Nutrabullets are cool they virtually liquefy the fruits and vegetables
 
lupehernandezdepedajack said:
Even steamed broccoli is tough for a toothless guy. I have gotten in the habit of taking my dad a nutrablast with a mixture of fruit and vegetables every evening . We make them as tasty as possible. Nutrabullets are cool they virtually liquefy the fruits and vegetables
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Hell my father was toothless, and he ate it. I couldn't understand how he ate cubed steak though.
 
There are ways to get kids to eat good stuff without going all the way to inedible awful tasting food. When I taught school in San Antonio, the creative cooks in our cafeteria put zucchini and carrots and beets into the chocolate cake. That cake was delicious and scarfed down by every kid........... they had no idea they were eating their veggies.
 
Zam-Zam said:
Sorry, Michelle:

New York school drops Michelle Obama lunch standards: Kids too hungry

New York's Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake school district has become the latest casualty in first lady Michelle Obama’s preferred lunch plan, dropping the menu after too many students complained of hunger.

“[Food service manager Nicky] Boehm and her staff worked hard to implement the new regulations, but there were just too many problems and too many foods that students did not like and would not purchase,” said Assistant Superintendent Chris Abdoo about the Nationalaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png School Lunch Program in a statement reported by EAGNews.org. “Students complained of being hungry with these lunches and the district lost money.”

The school systemaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png decided to instead create its own lunch menu for next year.

The district lost about $100,000 trying out the federal menu, which offered such meals as “part” of a chicken patty on a minicroissant, EAGNews.org reported.

“Students felt they weren’t getting good valueaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png for their money,” Ms. Boehm said in EAGNews.org. “The high schoolers especially complained the portion sizes were too small and many more students brought in lunch from home.”

This isn’t the first school to drop the federal lunch menu plan. Catlin, Ill., schools did the same, calling the guidelines too “restrictive,” EAGNews.org reported.


Complete text: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/9/new-york-school-drops-michelle-obama-lunch-standar/



Can't understand it. Who wouldn't want “part of a chicken patty on a minicroissant" for lunch? Go figure.
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I'm all for LOCAL standards for this kind of stuff - and what's more local than parents? We start with an idea for public education. Then we decide we need to add lunches. Then it becomes early morning meals and afternoon snacks as well. hey, wait a minute...some people are poor. Now schools have subsidized nutritional accountabilities - free to some, at a cost to others. Menu content guidelines. Portion control. Don't forget to police for advertising of junk food and/or vending machines in common areas.

Oh wait, what was that core mission again?
 
Zam-Zam said:
Sorry, Michelle:

New York school drops Michelle Obama lunch standards: Kids too hungry

New York's Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake school district has become the latest casualty in first lady Michelle Obama’s preferred lunch plan, dropping the menu after too many students complained of hunger.

“[Food service manager Nicky] Boehm and her staff worked hard to implement the new regulations, but there were just too many problems and too many foods that students did not like and would not purchase,” said Assistant Superintendent Chris Abdoo about the Nationalaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png School Lunch Program in a statement reported by EAGNews.org. “Students complained of being hungry with these lunches and the district lost money.”

The school systemaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png decided to instead create its own lunch menu for next year.

The district lost about $100,000 trying out the federal menu, which offered such meals as “part” of a chicken patty on a minicroissant, EAGNews.org reported.

“Students felt they weren’t getting good valueaimages.intellitxt.com_ast_adTypes_icon1.png for their money,” Ms. Boehm said in EAGNews.org. “The high schoolers especially complained the portion sizes were too small and many more students brought in lunch from home.”

This isn’t the first school to drop the federal lunch menu plan. Catlin, Ill., schools did the same, calling the guidelines too “restrictive,” EAGNews.org reported.


Complete text: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/9/new-york-school-drops-michelle-obama-lunch-standar/



Can't understand it. Who wouldn't want “part of a chicken patty on a minicroissant" for lunch? Go figure.
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Shocking. Her pet issue is child obesity....right? Because it's been identified as their biggest health risk as a group....right? I don't think hunger among picky kids who prefer junk food is on the list. Hunger doesn't make you fat.
 
RickWA said:
I'm all for LOCAL standards for this kind of stuff - and what's more local than parents? We start with an idea for public education. Then we decide we need to add lunches. Then it becomes early morning meals and afternoon snacks as well. hey, wait a minute...some people are poor. Now schools have subsidized nutritional accountabilities - free to some, at a cost to others. Menu content guidelines. Portion control. Don't forget to police for advertising of junk food and/or vending machines in common areas.

Oh wait, what was that core mission again?
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Rely on the same parents who drive their children to McDonald's for Happy Meals way too often to be healthy creating the cycle?

Politics should never matter where there are starving children in America.
 
lupehernandezdepedajack said:
Hospitals provide healthy food but only a very sick person wouldn't complain about how crappy it is. That is a quote from my 86 yr. old dad who has spent the last 2 weeks in the hospital
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I wouldn't paint with such a broad brush. Our local hospital offers excellent food.

Since schools began to allow students to choose their own food items, rather than offering a standard meal, many of the kids choose pizza or hamburgers every day. A public school's cafeteria and vending machines shouldn't be viewed as revenue generators, but they often are these days.

Perhaps the schools should follow in the footsteps of the military and farm out meal provision to a private entity like Yum! Brands? Then we could allow the benevolent invisible hand of the free market to decide who dies from morbid obesity. That's probably what Yahweh would prefer, don't you think?
 
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