School Lunch and Calorie count rules will eventually bite the Libs in the behind

[gunowner930]

That is the part I thought about. When I was in highschool, I ran 80 miles per week for track and field. I ate about 3500-4000 calories per day and had to eat as much as I could so that my weight wouldn't go too low.

There is an obesity issue these days, and I can see the mandates for a healthy well balanced lunch helping the majority of kids. But what happens when kids aren't the norm. Churchmous' grand daughter is a great example. She NEEDS a different diet, and is being harassed for not conforming. That is not right.

You've identified one of the big issues with the mandates and then endorse it in your next paragraph. I'm sure you were not the only athlete at your school, you were likely part of a sizeable minority where a one size fits all approach will not work. It is not just one kid who is an exception, it is many kids. There are plenty of high school football players and wrestlers who are much bigger and stronger than the average grown man walking around on the streets. A salad and a banana won't cut it. What about runners such as yourself? Do these Obama meals have the carbs you need?

High school kids generally carry much less body fat and have higher metabolism than they will at any point in their adult lives. Yet we are worried about these kids being porkers, and younger kids, what are they eating at home? It must be 2 slices of school pizza making them fat and not the damned inactivity and whatever garbage their parents are feeding them. Is it food or laziness? Does it matter? Why don't we just let fatties be fat? If they truly want to put forth the effort to lose weight, they will.

 

[actaeon277]

Just talked to the wife. There are 7 women working a total of 36 man-hours each day to serve about 500 meals. Breakfast is $.95 cents, lunch is $1.65 for students and $2.30 for adults.

That's 36 manhours to prepare food, serve, clean all trays and dishes and clean up the kitchen. I don't know how much the school gets in subsidy per meal. I'd challenge anyone here to prepare meals that nobody will complain about with the crew they have and for the price they charge.

Of course there are going to be complaints. People will complain about a $100 meal much less a $1 one.
Here's the problem.
One size fits all.
Churchmouse granddaughters have allergies, and they make lunches for them and feed them.... like parents are SUPPOSED to do. And they get told NO. Everyone must eat this lunch.
People with allergies, athletes, overweight people..... doesn't matter.
ONE SIZE FITS ALL.

I don't have a kid.
But if I did, and I made a lunch for the anklebiter to bring in, and I was told it WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH.
I think I'd be pretty angry.
And that's what people are angry about.
You can't bring in something.
The stuff they are required to eat, well school lunches have never been fine cousine, but they've changed.
And the little ladies behind the counter may be the best at what they do, and they do a hard thankless job, but if they're given lackluster materials, that's what's going to get served.
What they are serving is out of their control, and in the hands of a faceless desk jockey thousands of miles away.
I am very sure your wife, and the other ladies, could make a better decision, them being on the front line.

That no one will complain about? Kids complain about food....like soldiers, it is their right.

Yup. They have a right to complain. And I'm sure they will.
But I also remember volunteering to serve. I don't think the kids did.
I couldn't bring a sack lunch on to the submare.
But I'd think they could.

....and don't get me started on school breakfast. I will let Carolla do my talking:

...and it's Carolla...do I have to say this? ***LANGUAGE WARNING***

What are you going to cook from scratch with 36 man-hours for 500 meals?

I'm sure they could come up with something. They've been doing it for years, without interference from Uncle Sam.

 

[actaeon277]

I hope they put your daughter straight. After all, individuals can be sacrificed for the greater good. We are all socialists now. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Etc, etc.

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[actaeon277]

I get your point and its a great one. I'm just saying that WE THE PEOPLE do not serve the government. The government is supposed to serve us. I habe been watching the documentary on the Roosevelts and its got me "some kind of way" as the kids say. I'm just tired of one individual, whomever it is, being allowed to forward their personal agenda, when WE THE PEOPLE do not want it.

Que, I keep telling people that we are supposed to tell the government what to do.
That they are servants.
And that those in higher positions are just bosses of the servants.

But all I hear, is that they are our leaders, our bosses, that THEY know better.

It makes my Agent Orange get all itchy.
(ok it really doesn't, I'm too young. I think I stole that from a movie)

 

[hornadylnl]

Of course there are going to be complaints. People will complain about a $100 meal much less a $1 one.
Here's the problem.
One size fits all.
Churchmouse granddaughters have allergies, and they make lunches for them and feed them.... like parents are SUPPOSED to do. And they get told NO. Everyone must eat this lunch.
People with allergies, athletes, overweight people..... doesn't matter.
ONE SIZE FITS ALL.

I don't have a kid.
But if I did, and I made a lunch for the anklebiter to bring in, and I was told it WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH.
I think I'd be pretty angry.
And that's what people are angry about.
You can't bring in something.
The stuff they are required to eat, well school lunches have never been fine cousine, but they've changed.
And the little ladies behind the counter may be the best at what they do, and they do a hard thankless job, but if they're given lackluster materials, that's what's going to get served.
What they are serving is out of their control, and in the hands of a faceless desk jockey thousands of miles away.
I am very sure your wife, and the other ladies, could make a better decision, them being on the front line.




Yup. They have a right to complain. And I'm sure they will.
But I also remember volunteering to serve. I don't think the kids did.
I couldn't bring a sack lunch on to the submare.
But I'd think they could.






I'm sure they could come up with something. They've been doing it for years, without interference from Uncle Sam.

If my posts are coming off as I'm offended or I feel it necessary to defend my wife, that isn't my intention. Just trying to offer some perspective and that people need to manage their expectations.

Those who complain the loudest about the quality of food would complain the loudest if the cost of the lunch went up 20 cents ($1 a week). Last I saw, nearly 40% of my school was on free or reduced lunches.

Just as the schools will go along to get along to keep the federal money flowing, parents are doing the same to keep the "free" education and the subsidized lunches for their kids. What's the difference? BTW, there's always a choice.

Oh, and my daughter takes her lunch to school. Always has.

 

[churchmouse]

If my posts are coming off as I'm offended or I feel it necessary to defend my wife, that isn't my intention. Just trying to offer some perspective and that people need to manage their expectations.

Those who complain the loudest about the quality of food would complain the loudest if the cost of the lunch went up 20 cents ($1 a week). Last I saw, nearly 40% of my school was on free or reduced lunches.

Just as the schools will go along to get along to keep the federal money flowing, parents are doing the same to keep the "free" education and the subsidized lunches for their kids. What's the difference? BTW, there's always a choice.

Oh, and my daughter takes her lunch to school. Always has.

A long time friends wife runs the school cafeteria (K through 6) in a rural community. I spoke with her on this after reading this thread. She states they feed the kids better than the Fed. mandate. They keep it healthy but also edible. There are ways to get a good meal to these kids if effort is applied.
She says over 40% on the same free program. Some of those kids she is sure are not that needy.