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When was it ever good? And how can kids be starving with only a couple hours after they go home?


Theyre only getting 650 cals? Thats roughly 2 meals for me :laugh2: 850 for a highschool kid?


Kentucky students to first lady Michelle Obama: Your food


Students in a rural Kentucky county — and their parents — are the latest to join a growing national chorus of scorn for the healthy school lunches touted by first lady Michelle Obama.

“They say it tastes like vomit,” said Harlan County Public Schools board member Myra Mosley at a contentious board meeting last week, reports The Harlan Daily Enterprise.

The growing body of USDA meal regulations implemented by the Department of Agriculture under the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010″ has long been a signature issue for the first lady.

Denizens of Harlan County don’t much care, though. Their primary concern at the board meeting was a bevy of complaints that local children are starving at lunch — and for the remainder of the school day — because the food on offer in the cafeteria is crappy and there isn’t nearly enough of it.

“Kids can’t learn when they’re hungry!” parents shouted to the board, according to the Enterprise.

Other gripes involved the new bread, which students don’t want to eat because it’s brown wheat bread, and the new milk, which is skim or one percent fat, not two percent or whole. The cafeteria’s chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk offerings are now nonfat.

Jack Miniard, the school district’s director of school and community nutrition, was on hand to explain that the federal government now governs both food choices and portion sizes in most American school districts including Harlan County.

Under the National School Lunch Program, Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, participating schools must provide lunches — including free or reduced price lunches — with minimum amounts of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables and whole grains. Also, in what presumably falls outside the hunger-free aspect of the act, there’s a calorie cap: 850 for high school lunches, 700 for middle schools and a mere 650 calories for kids in elementary school.

Students can only have one serving of meat or other protein. However, rich kids can buy a second portion each day on their own dime.

Servings of carbohydrates such as potatoes are limited to just a single serving of three-fourths of a cup per student.

On the plus side, students can eat as many fruits and vegetables as they want.

Across the country, students and parents have expressed dissatisfaction with the federal government’s new food regime. Some wealthier suburban school districts are simply backing out of the National School Lunch Program, though doing so can mean giving up a six-figure annual subsidy for the district.
 

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The kids are hungry because they're fat ****s who are constantly raiding the fridge and shoveling mashed potatoes and gravy when they're at home. **** the south.
 

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Ummm...my parents sent me with my own lunch to school and didn't expect school to feed me.

'Murica!!!!
 

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Hey this ain't fried chicken! Where's the mac n cheese and french fries!?!
 

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School lunch certainly wasn't delicious when I was growing up.
 

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Ummm...my parents sent me with my own lunch to school and didn't expect school to feed me.

'Murica!!!!


It wasnt expected when i was kid but the hot lunch program was probably the best meal of the day for some kids.
 

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bitching over wheat bread and 2% milk?

sheesh.

Make a PB&J and STFU
 

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It's none of the government's business.

You can keep feeding kids sodas, burgers, and fries as long as you take away the smart phones during recess.
 

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packed lunch ? parents taking some responsibility for child nutrition

perish the thought
 

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It's none of the government's business.

You can keep feeding kids sodas, burgers, and fries as long as you take away the smart phones during recess.

It is if the dough is from the government and a government program from get go. I wish they would implement some of this for welfare people, instead of seeing the bs I see a lot of them have in their carts. :laugh2:
 

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I liked the hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes, stuffing spaghetti into hollowed-out bread rolls, the crazy rectangle pizza, stuff they do not serve any longer.

When I was a kid my school had an actual kitchen, with staff, to prepare each meal from mostly scratch. The meals were simple but honest. Having built several schools and seeing how the kitchen are microwaving crap food - I realize I had it pretty good.

Anybody have a recipe for hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes??

USGAM_90_04_058_F_HambGrav.jpg
 

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People need to be told what to eat!

Jeeze....
 

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I packed just about every day.

Since the guv is subsidizing it anyway, kids should be able to eat just about anything that Mrs. O eats. :shock:
 

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uhhh...

How is 650-850 cals not enough?

Add 200-300 for breakfast and 800 for dinner, 100-200 of healthy snacks like a yogurt at night and that's more than plenty of food for a middle/high schooler

America is fat. This is a step in the right direction.
 

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uhhh...

How is 650-850 cals not enough?

Add 200-300 for breakfast and 800 for dinner, 100-200 of healthy snacks like a yogurt at night and that's more than plenty of food for a middle/high schooler

America is fat. This is a step in the right direction.

Exactly my point. When i was a kid they had the big industrial cans of creamed corn and such and such :laugh2:

Now I have my own problems with the government standard food choices, but certainly not the calorie amount.


The whole food pyramid bs and rda, is such serious hogwash and dumping endless fruit into kids with juice and more carbs...How to build a type 2 diabetic who with eating grains is now not capable of uptaking nutrients properly and always hungry.:wave:
 

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I liked the hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes, stuffing spaghetti into hollowed-out bread rolls, the crazy rectangle pizza, stuff they do not serve any longer.

When I was a kid my school had an actual kitchen, with staff, to prepare each meal from mostly scratch. The meals were simple but honest. Having built several schools and seeing how the kitchen are microwaving crap food - I realize I had it pretty good.

Anybody have a recipe for hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes??

USGAM_90_04_058_F_HambGrav.jpg

*sigh*

Now I want Sausage Gravy and Biscuits!
 

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People need to be told what to eat!

Jeeze....

They're children. Children going to school. School is a place of learning. They need to learn the right things to eat. Lunch class can teach them that.
 

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Wasn't a problem for me.. school didn't provide lunch and Moms was broke. I made my own sandwiches or starved.

When you get skip second class to get baked.. you appreciate your own effort to make those damn sandwiches.
 

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School lunch is 5 star cuisine compared to the shit the Army feeds us. I've eaten at the Danish and German chow halls away from here. They have good food... Good God is this shit awful.
 

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