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Well, I just came from our cafeteria meeting. We're not allowed to make and sell any more homemade frosted cookies. As well as many other a la carte offerings. I am hesitant to blame Michelle Obama totally, but she's not very popular right now. the kids will accept it and come to eventually like it, but I have my serious doubts. We are putting in a whole section of salad and vegetables in one of the a la carte tables. I'm honestly hoping
It won't surprise me if more kids pack this year. When last year's stringent guidelines came through, our mainline lunch business decreased majorly (except for the kids with free/reduced lunch tickets, that is). Everybody else started buying from a la carte. The kids with money to spend on lunch are going to be sore.
Really? When my son was little, he much preferred a salad over cookies or cake. It all starts in the home.
Many kids nowadays can't recognize a vegetable it smacked them upside the head.
Liberals telling me I can't eat cookies and conservatives telling me I can't eat a marijuana brownie when I want to relax after a hard days work. Welcome to the freest country on earth.
Really? When my son was little, he much preferred a salad over cookies or cake. It all starts in the home.
Many kids nowadays can't recognize a vegetable it smacked them upside the head.
My daughter can't stand carbonated soda's. She will take water over soda every time but it wasn't because anything I told her. If carbonated soda was good for you she still wouldn't drink it.
Americans voted for this kind of nannyism when they sent King Obama to the White House not once but twice. This is the society a majority of voters chose to live in.
It's only going to continue on this path as we continue to allow low information statists to elect Democrats to positions of political power.
Oh for pity's sake. The Federal School Lunch Program is a subsidized government program. If you want your kids to have cookies at lunch, send them in with a freakin' box of Oreos for all I care, but you can buy them on your own time. It is perfectly reasonable that there are limits on what is available from the school cafeteria. If you'd like local control over what is offered, then you have no right to the subsidies. Also, I'd like to mention that many of you who have your panties in a wad are totally on board with limiting what can be purchased with food stamps. Irony, anyone?
Oh for pity's sake. The Federal School Lunch Program is a subsidized government program. If you want your kids to have cookies at lunch, send them in with a freakin' box of Oreos for all I care, but you can buy them on your own time. It is perfectly reasonable that there are limits on what is available from the school cafeteria. If you'd like local control over what is offered, then you have no right to the subsidies. Also, I'd like to mention that many of you who have your panties in a wad are totally on board with limiting what can be purchased with food stamps. Irony, anyone?
This explains a lot. Those like yourself see this as the governments money. It isn't its the taxpayers money, the very people you are condemning.
This explains a lot. Those like yourself see this as the governments money. It isn't its the taxpayers money, the very people you are condemning.
You don't have a job you pay taxes on do you?
Oh, honey, my family is in the 28% Federal Income Tax Bracket, which means we pay more than most, so you can drop that line of argument. Regardless, once again you and I are at an impasse. You're absolutely right that it is money I have paid into the system, and I demand that it's spent on vegetables and fruit, not iced cookies. Now what do we do?
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Oh, honey, my family pays a lot of taxes, but once again you and I are at an impasse. You're absolutely right that it is money I have paid into the system, and I demand that it's spent on vegetables and fruit, not iced cookies. Now what do we do?
At my school, I see the students dump your "tax dollars" into the trash every day. The janitor gets a hernia carrying it out.
At my school, I see the students dump your "tax dollars" into the trash every day. The janitor gets a hernia carrying it out.
Yep, I've seen it, too, and it's disturbing, but the solution is not to throw up our hands in defeat and let the children eat iced cookies every day instead. As parents, is that what we do when our child doesn't want to eat his broccoli at dinner? "That's okay, Sweetheart, here have ten Oreos and a bag of Doritos instead." No! We keep serving the darn broccoli.
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School children in Elyria, Ohio are mourning the demise of a 40-year tradition – the loss of their beloved pink cookie. The fabled cookie, long served in local school cafeterias, was done in by a pound of butter, six cups of powdered sugar and the Obama administration’s food police.
“It no longer meets the national school lunch program guidelines for snacks,” said Amy Higgins, the spokesperson for Elyria City Schools. “It has too many calories.”
Why should cookies be part of a school lunch program. If parents want cookies, then they can bake them.
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