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My kids would have eaten most of it; they probably would have had a proble with the Kale and the Southern Cabbage, but perhaps that's a common food in DC, which is a bit southern after all.
But, some people feel it's right to raise fat Diabetic 12 year olds with Heart Disease.
A report by local Washington D.C. news station NBC4 indicates that over 60,000 low-income students in the metro area are skipping lunch, dissatisfied with the food offered to them by their schools.
... The kids’ failure to eat is costing the schools big money, as they lose $3 in federal subsidies every time a student on free lunch forgoes taking a meal. That’s $180,000 a day, adding up to over $32 million in a school year lasting approximately 180 days. School officials say the lost subsidies are straining their budgets, as they need the money to pay for healthier food options mandated by Congress.
... ...students were rejecting healthier lunches because they did not enjoy the food offered. Another suggested factor was that students avoided eating a free lunch because they would be stigmatized as poor.
Well, the fact that they are not eating is combating obesity. Now malnutrition - that's a different story. I understand not wanting to give the kids total junk food and super sugary drinks - but there has to be a middle ground somewhere.
I also don't like how they tie the subsidies received to how much the students eat - making the administrators and teachers sell & push these lunches to the kids. The kids aren't buying.
Look at this on successive Tuesdays for lunch for this elementary school in June. What second grader will eat this... from a school? The junk food was barely edible.
6/3 Whole Wheat Baked Ziti with Mozzarella Cheese Local Primavera Carrots and Squash Fresh Local Apple Skim or 1% Milk
6/10 Whole Wheat Mac & Cheese Local Garlic Kale Herb Roasted Butternut Squash Fresh Local Apple Skim or 1% Milk
6/17 Turkey Sloppy Joe on a Whole Wheat Bun Local Southern Cabbage Buttered Green Peas Fresh Local Apple Skim or 1% Milk
hows this for funny... a couple years ago the head of the Dallas ISD (independant school district) food service program was talking on the record about how terrible the administrations new healthy food innitive was because of this very issue. Kids just quit eating.
Then a few weeks later, this same DISD official was was invited to Washington DC to meet with the First Lady and took a picture with the group that was designed to push this very innitive she was talking down just weeks earlier.
I thought conservatives were against low-income people eating junk rather than healthy foods.
Heck, yeah! All these threads on how food-stamp recipients should be limited to uncooked beans, rice, flour, veggies, fruit and the like. The School Lunch Program is Dept of Agriculture food as well, and as Char said upthread, even the full-price lunches are subsidized. In any event, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
Watermelon is occasionally served in our public schools, along with baked chicken. I've never seen collards, but mixed green salad is available every day. What exactly is your point?
Watermelon is occasionally served in our public schools, along with baked chicken. I've never seen collards, but mixed green salad is available every day. What exactly is your point?
Harrier is just suggesting a healthy menu that kids might eat - and it seems that your schools have got the right idea.
The larger point, outside of the school menu, is that a head of broccoli cost almost as much as a brown bag special. That is what needs to be fixed for families before tackling it at school.
Harrier is just suggesting a healthy menu that kids might eat - and it seems that your schools have got the right idea.
How are collard greens any different or less palatable than kale?
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