That's nothing new for kids.
First breakfast and now lunch:
"Some school districts dropping out of healthy lunch program" by Carolyn Thompson | Associated Press, September 01, 2013
BUFFALO — After just one year, some schools around the country are dropping out of the healthier, new federal lunch program, complaining that so many students turned up their noses at meals packed with whole grains, fruits, and vegetables that the cafeterias were losing money.
Spoiled god-damn kids when this government loves you so much that it lies to you all the time and sends you off to war to die with a ball-and-chain of student loan debt attached!
But they want to make sure you are eating healthy! I suppose that's why they slimed you.
Federal officials say they don’t have exact numbers but have seen isolated reports of schools cutting ties with the $11 billion National School Lunch Program, which reimburses schools for meals served and gives them access to lower-priced food.
Districts that rejected the program say the reimbursement was not enough to offset losses from students who began avoiding the lunch line and bringing food from home or, in some cases, going hungry.
Oh, my goodness, can you imagine BRINGING a lunch from home!
Look at that stoopid Glee lunch box! Talk about bullying.
‘‘Some of the stuff we had to offer, they wouldn’t eat,’’ said Catlin, Ill., Superintendent Gary Lewis, whose district saw a 10 to 12 percent drop in lunch sales, resulting in a loss of $30,000 last year. ‘‘So you sit there and watch the kids, and you know they’re hungry at the end of the day, and that led to some behavior and some lack of attentiveness.’’
Near Albany, Voorheesville Superintendent Teresa Thayer Snyder said the program didn’t even make it through the school year after students repeatedly complained about the small portions and apples and pears went from the tray to the trash untouched.
They are just getting you used to the coming rations, kids.
And that last part is nothing but waste. Why would the school waste food?
Districts that leave the program are free to develop their own guidelines. Voorheesville’s chef began serving such dishes as salad topped with flank steak and crumbled cheese, pasta with chicken and mushrooms, and a panini with chicken, red peppers, and cheese.
In Catlin, soups and fish sticks will return to the menu this year, and the hamburger lunch will come with yogurt and a banana — not one or the other, like last year.
Dr. Janey Thornton, deputy undersecretary for the US Department of Agriculture’s Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, said she is still optimistic about the program’s long-term prospects.
‘‘Many of these children have never seen or tasted some of the fruits and vegetables that are being served before, and it takes a while to adapt and learn,’’ she said.
That is so condescending it makes one sicker than the food. The government thinks we all stoopid, and given the state of the public schools....
Also see: Spoonfeeding America's Children
Bad enough they feed them agenda-pushing lies.
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You might just want to skip lunch, kids.
Maybe you should just get a snack instead:
"US plans new restrictions on the snacks schools sell" by Mary Clare Jalonick and Connie Cass | Associated Press, June 28, 2013
WASHINGTON — The days of eschewing healthier school lunches and filling up on cookies from the vending machine are numbered.
Maybe. Maybe not.
For the first time, the Agriculture Department is telling schools what sorts of snacks they can sell....
I don't think even the Nazis did that, and the big fella was a vegetarian. He didn't say no bratwurst, did he?
‘‘Parents will no longer have to worry that their kids are using their lunch money to buy junk food and junk drinks at school,’’ said Margo Wootan, a nutrition lobbyist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, who pushed for the new rules.
No, now they will just worry if they even ate.
Related: Skipping Lunch Today
But the school wants to make sure you eat right.
That does not mean schools will be limited to doling out broccoli and brussels sprouts.
Snacks that still make the grade include granola bars, low-fat tortilla chips, fruit cups, and 100 percent fruit juice. And high school students can buy diet versions of soda, sports drinks, and iced tea.
Banned are some beloved school standbys, such as doughy pretzels, cookies, and those little ice cream cups with their own spoons.
The bottom line, Wootan said, is that the food must have nutritional value.
That's going to affect the bottom line.
‘‘There has to be some food in the food,’’ she said.
Still, 17-year-old Vanessa Herrera of Rockaway, N.J., is partial to the Cheez-Its and sugar-laden vitamin water in her school’s vending machine.
Granola bars and bags of peanuts?
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The snack rules don’t take effect until the 2014-15 school year.
That's when the new machines will be installed.
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Good thing there is always Mickey D's, kids -- as long as it's quick.
Time for me to go have my lunch.
