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Here kids, would you like some seasoned beet greens?
Yeah, that will go over well. Have you forgotten what it was like to be a child? Most kids hate vegetables, and if they aren't made to eat them, like at home, they aren't going to eat them. All this food being thrown away is money being thrown away. Adding a little butter and garlic isn't going to make them eat it more.
As for the fruit, I don't know if schools just hand it to the kids whole, or if they slice it up to make it easier and more fun to eat, but they could do something with fruit to entice the kids to eat it. If it's fun, they will.
Seasoned beet greens would have sounded DELICIOUS to me as a kid. Much better than the disgusting pizza, corn dogs, and a variation on carbs (i.e. country fried steak with mashed potatoes, rice, a biscuit, and gravy over it all as was served every Monday at my school) that was standard in my school.
I repeat, if your child won't eat fruits and veggies, blaming the school is deflection. That's your own fault. Sure, kids won't eat every vegetable - I still won't eat peas - but they should be exposed to them early and often. Too many kids are subsisting on chicken nuggets and chips. Sorry, but the school shouldn't have to serve unhealthy meals in order to fit lazy parenting. We have a serious obesity problem in this country and while fixing school lunches is only a bandaid approach, it's quite obvious that it is exposing these kids to food that their parents NEVER serve them at home.
The point of the lunch program is that for many kids that will be the only healthy meal they eat all day which is a sad reflection on the eating habits of many Americans. Forty or fifty years ago most mothers were home cooking and families sat down together to a balanced meal.
Big surprise. Two southern states where 90% of the population is overweight or obese. When you have an entire culture of kids that have been raised on chicken nuggets and french fries, you're fighting an uphill battle. I think Michelle had the right idea, but if parents aren't making healthy choices in the home, kids aren't going to go to school and decide they like broccoli and fruit.
Michelle's guidelines are going to result in fatter kids. Here's why:
My 9-year-old nephew comes home from school every day completely ravished. The combination of the calorie limits and types of foods they have to give kids is going into the trash as much as it is the kids stomachs. Any kids that aren't well-supervised (often kids more likely to be poorer) are going to get home hungry and gorge on whatever is convenient around their home, most likely stuff like chips, pop tarts, cookies, hot dogs, etc.
So rather than feeding our kids reasonable, satiating foods at school, we're sending them home hungry where they're going to fill up on whatever their parents buy.
And why isn't your nephew eating the school lunch. Oh boo hoo, he doesn't like it. So maybe his mom should pack it then. Schools are there to teach
When I was growing up I either ate what my mother prepared or went to bed hungry. Needless to say I learned to like vegetables pretty damn quickly.
LOL so did I. I have no idea why there is so much emphasis on what schools serve for lunch. Why should they provide lunch at all, let the kids bring their own. The kids that can't afford to bring their own should be provided with it though.
Seasoned beet greens would have sounded DELICIOUS to me as a kid. Much better than the disgusting pizza, corn dogs, and a variation on carbs (i.e. country fried steak with mashed potatoes, rice, a biscuit, and gravy over it all as was served every Monday at my school) that was standard in my school.
I repeat, if your child won't eat fruits and veggies, blaming the school is deflection. That's your own fault. Sure, kids won't eat every vegetable - I still won't eat peas - but they should be exposed to them early and often. Too many kids are subsisting on chicken nuggets and chips. Sorry, but the school shouldn't have to serve unhealthy meals in order to fit lazy parenting. We have a serious obesity problem in this country and while fixing school lunches is only a bandaid approach, it's quite obvious that it is exposing these kids to food that their parents NEVER serve them at home.
I threw out my school lunches with pizza and sloppy joes, but I don't see anyone crowing about that. If I had whined to my mom about my school lunch being inedible, she would have scoffed and told me not to throw out perfectly good food.
Load of crap? Did your parents run a restaurant? Because mine were quick to remind me that they didn't.
Never had a school lunch myself. My mother packed lunch every day for 12 years for 4 kids.
No lunch boxes either..we "brown bagged" it with $.25 to buy a drink.
Never had a school lunch myself. My mother packed lunch every day for 12 years for 4 kids.
No lunch boxes either..we "brown bagged" it with $.25 to buy a drink.
Some people would have paid extra for colored bags, had they been offered.
Polka dots, stars, rainbows, etc.
Brown baggers would have still remained in the lowest class.
A thermos of soup was considered high class when I schooled in the fifties, even if it were carried in a brown paper bag.
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