Here We Go Again - The School Trying to "Feed" our Children "Healthy Food"
I read an article today on the New York Times online version about Schools cracking down on "unhealthy" food. It's entitled "The School Cafeteria, on a Diet".
They are making some "drastic" changes in California by not frying the chicken nuggets and french fries now, but they are baking them. Big whoopy doo. Like that is "making things healthier". Why not get rid of the GARBAGE food, like BREADED chicken nuggets and STARCHY fries and offer grilled chicken breasts and VEGETABLES as a side. Oh wait, the nutritional guidelines say that french fries ARE a vegetable.
Then they're going to serve the kids smaller portions of low-fat garbage food and leave them hungrier than they were before. Anyone remember the small portions of low-fat food you get on Weight Watchers, leaving you famished and wanting more.
But they are banning, jelly beans and Popsicles because they offer no nutritional benefit, but will allow Snickers and Dove ice cream bars because they do. WHAT??
Oh and I love this one "a bill is pending in Congress, that would allow the department of AGRICULTURE to update the rules for what can be sold at the schools during the daytime". Hmmm, me thinks there will be loads of corn and wheat items. Just what the kids really need. Do you really think the department of agriculture is going to allow MORE meat and cheese?
Sadly, I see that the department of agriculture is now going to get into the school and "help" design a "healthy eating plan" for our kids. When will it ever end.
My daughter can rarely eat in the cafeteria now. There are no grilled chicken sandwiches, only BREADED - but baked *see me rolling my eyes* sandwiches. So sometimes she gets a breaded chicken sandwich and peels off the breading and throws away the WHITE bread bun. She eats whatever vegetable is available and the fruit - if it's REAL fruit and not soaked in sugary syrup. Sadly, she mostly just takes baggies of nuts and nutritional bars to eat for lunch.
Here is the complete article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/business/05junkfood.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1189029738-xjfqQ2p8/rRVIUEJu8V0bA
5 comments:
Looks like they're just re-arranging the problem, not fixing it!!!
Hey! I love your blog. I found you because my Wordpress blog tells me where visitors come from, and there was a link in my visitor history to the low-carb board where you mentioned my letter to my HR department about the ADA. (Thanks for the mention, by the way.)
I would love to have a child someday, but I fear my kid would inherit my metabolism, and it would be a constant uphill battle trying to teach a healthy diet in the face of all the junk food and junk science out there.
I whole heartedly agree with this post!
Quality NOT Crap!
OMG school cafeteria food is ridiculous.
My son's school actually considers ketchup to be a vegetable.
So if you were to eat a hamburger, bun, ketchup, you get protien, carbs and veggies. How fab is that?
I now make lunches every freaking day.
Deptartment of Agriculture determining what's sold in the school cafeteria? My god, I hope not. May as well let drug dealers in.
What on earth are kids with food allergies supposed to eat?
I admire your daughter's resolve - it's not easy eating differently, especially at that age. Good for her!
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