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Article: NC Food 'Inspector" Sends Girl's Lunch Home After Determining It's Not Healthy Enough
The girls lunch: "a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice"
What she was given instead: "chicken nuggets"
Anyone else care to share their thoughts?
Anyone have kids in the NC system? Is this normal or this just an isolated incident?
Re: Article: NC Food 'Inspector" Sends Girl's Lunch Home After Determining It's Not Healthy Enough
I read that this morning. And was totally offended for the mom.
And you should see the crap in the snack/lunch bin outside my kid's classroom. It would make those deep fried chicken nuggets the "healthy choice"
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Well, I had the unfortunate opportunity to live in Robeson County for 2 years and all I can say is this does not surprise me. Not one bit. I'm sure a second thought wasn't given to serving chicken nuggets instead of the lunch the girl brought.
I could go on but...
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l lived in Charlotte for a long while and my husband worked in the Charlotte school system for a long time and neither of us have ever heard of something so crazy - on the news or through anecdotes.
The school where I teach serves pizza for breakfast.
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I think it's totally crazy. I work in an elementary school and I try to eat with the kids once a week. Last Friday was grilled cheese day (my favorite) however it was served with tomato soup, a fruit cup, milk, and a cheese stick. Um a cheese stick on TOP of a grilled cheese? I thought that was a little ridiculous.
Another popular school lunch is mozzarella cheese sticks with a baked potato and cheese (again with the double cheese), and fruit.
Popular breakfasts at our school are funnel cakes, cut up pieces of toast slathered in nacho cheese sauce, and pizza pockets. I'm not sure how that adds up to be nutritious, but we are also under new guidelines for the students food in the cafeteria. I just don't understand how they are balancing out the meals. I'm not seeing it.
Yeah, but you know that Charlotte and RobCo are two very different places..
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Okay but if fries are considered a vegetable, then potato chips should be too, right...?
This is really, truly ridiculous. I would be pretty damn pissed if I were the mom.
Absolutely ridiculous. And the day a school tells me that tater tots are more nutritious than tortilla chips and salsa or something similar, we're having words.
The kids at the elementary schools in the district here don't have, in my opinion, options that are any healthier than that mom's lunch (and some that seem distinctly worse); the healthier options don't come into play until the kids get to middle school.
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I work in an elementary school, and we are not allowed to say anything about what the kids bring to school, even when it's a couple of hot dog weiners, a baggie of bacon, potato chips, fruit chews, and two cokes. (Which does happen.)
We are also not allowed to tell them to pick fruits and veggies when they go through the lunch line. (They *are* allowed to pick 3 a la carte items, such as an ice cream, some hot Cheetos, and a bag of cheddar popcorn at one sitting, but don't get me started.) Auditors come out and will give the school a huge fine if any of this goes on. (Or if they see a kid give another child something from their lunch box or tray, even if it was something like an apple slice and no teacher saw it happen.) Anyway, I thought these were federal regulations, but I guess not. If that happened in my state, the school would be in hot isht.
This blows my mind!!
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Ditto this exactly!
This story made me so angry. It's so hypocritical to deny a kid a pretty healthy, tasty and filling lunch and give her processed crap instead. And I had the same remark about the lack of vegetable--I would think if you accept french fries as one, you'd accept potato chips.
To me, this underlines the idiocy of the USDA food pyramid or plate or whatever it is now and removes common sense about what constitutes an appropriate lunch.
As an aside, I think I saw this on PC&E or some other board and several posters were remarking about how "unhealthy" foods are confiscated in their school districts. A common example was anything that included chocolate, even granola bars or trail mix. The whole thing just has my blood boiling--how are schools possibly justifying these types of behaviors when the lunches (and breakfasts--God, some of those pps listed are DISGUSTING) THEY provide are so devoid of wholesomeness?
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