Hot Dog/Lunch programs

[Guest guest]

No, it is true. The school lunches need to be 60% of

the daily caloric intake. This is assuming that these

kids don't get food at home (free lunch program, etc).

These lunches are starchy and fattening, and yes the

kids eat them. No, I will not ever sit down with my

child while they consume disgusting, government issued

fillers b/c my children will never go through the

public school system. We also wouldn't ever accept

handouts. The regular school lunches are crap. The

kids that actually buy their lunch have the option of

the snack bars.

This is the Federal level and has been in place for

decades (long before W - not his fault). The Federal

Government will fund the free lunch programs but in

order to do that, ALL lunches have to follow specific

guidelines set by the Gov. A school can choose not to

follow the guidelines but cannot receive monies from

the Gov, therefore funding the lunch programs

themselves...This doesn't happen, no school can afford

this. SO, all schools follow these guidelines and all

the children at the school (free lunch or not) eat

this heavily starchy, fattening, high calorie garbage.

My husband (long before we were married) ate school

lunches and his weight shot up to 199 lbs.

Keep in mind that most of the children on the free

lunch program are also on food stamps...Food stamps

need to stretch so most people buy a lot of fillers.

So, you have kids eating breakfast...Then a hugely

caloric lunch...Then go home and have more fattening

foods. Some of the fattest kids I've seen in all

towns I've lived in have been the poorest.

The Government will give the handouts but demand to

control every facet of its use. We all know how

misinformed 'officials' are when it comes to

nutrition. So, we're getting our children fatter and

fatter as opposed to healthier. And this is a good

deed?

And I do get your point, Gene...Many children will not

eat this garbage, but the poorer children...Whom don't

have much of a choice, will.

Warmly,

Allison

 

--- The Stewarts <stews9 wrote:

> If school kids actually ate school lunches, rather

> than throwing them at

> each other and throwing most of them away each meal,

> I'd buy into this

> more. However, once again, look into it on a

> practical level -- go eat

> lunch with your kid at his or her school sometime.

> You'll see what I mean

> -- huge waste, highly selective picking, and all

> kinds of other stuff

> going on.

>

> This is, I believe, yet another trickle-down rivulet

> of propagandistic

> drool from Rush's armpit, having been placed there

> by the sheer excitement

> of having W whisper sweet nothings like this to him.

>

> Having said this, I am in no way defending school

> lunch programs, on the

> local level. When we moved to Nebraska we toured

> the school our kids

> would go to, and were told in a proud tone that, " we

> serve hot dogs every

> day to make sure the kids will eat... "

>

> LOL

>

>

 

 

 

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