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School lunches 
Mon Feb 01, 2010 at 09:12:17 AM PST
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( - promoted by JayinPortland)
Listed in one Daily News link this morning as School lunches get a big, fat "F" on health today's story Survey: School lunches, full of processed foods, still get failing health;
The health-crazed Bloomberg administration often touts how it has overhauled school lunches and slashed calories - but critics charge the standard cafeteria fare is still far from healthy.
The photo in today's paper that is captioned as looking "more like McDonald's than Whole Foods" actually makes McDonald's look good.
That is actually a New York City school lunch recently served at PS 42.
In a city that once portrayed installing Snapple dispensers as a health conscious move for the children of New York City, there are often stories about Bloomberg improving lunch programs but...
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 22:00:21 PM PDT
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OneTray.org has two new videos promoting healthy school lunches. Click through to watch "Lunch Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Priceless."
The goal is to raise awareness of Farm to School programs for the upcoming reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act by depicting the cafeteria tray as the centerpiece for a reformed school food system that supports healthy children, local farms and smart schools. Learn more.
Everyone's seen those "priceless" MasterCard ads, but how many of you are old enough to remember the Richard Dreyfuss mashed potato scene in Close Encounters?
I'm relieved my first-grader is too picky to want to eat the school lunches (except one or twice a month when they serve pancakes or waffles). I would rather pack a lunch for him anyway.
Iowa should be doing much more to get locally produced foods in school lunches. The Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls has a good pilot program going this year, though.
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Sun Jun 21, 2009 at 08:53:41 AM PDT
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So says a Republican state representative in Missouri who doesn't want to expand a lunch program to feed kids when they're out of school:
Why have meals at home with your loved ones if you can go to the government soup kitchen and get one for free? This could have the effect of breaking apart more families.
Anyone under 18 can be eligible? Can't they get a job during the summer by the time they are 16? Hunger can be a positive motivator. What is wrong with the idea of getting a job so you can get better meals?
Tip: If you work for McDonald's, they will feed you for free during your break.
Families may economize by choosing to not waste hard earned dollars on potato chips, ice cream, or Twinkies. Perhaps some families will buy more beans and chicken and less sweets.
They are using a "crisis" to create an expansion of a government program. Parents naturally love their children and enjoy caring for their children just as much as ever during an economic downturn...Laid off parents could adapt by preparing more home cooked meals rather than going out to eat.
Yeah, nothing says fake "crisis" like rising child hunger during an economic recession. Come on, kids, get a job!
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Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 12:51:34 PM PST
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Malia and Sasha Obama started school on Monday at Sidwell Friends in Washington, and in addition to a lovely Quaker-inflected education, they're going to be enjoying a lunch program that relies on organic foods, with menus that are well planned and highly nutritious. It's all of a piece with Sidewell's excellent program of environmental stewardship, which teaches ethical and green values with concrete things like locally grown veggie stew. Malia and Sasha definitely won't be eating lunch meat purchased from companies with terrible food safety, pollution and ethics problems, but your kids might be, because the USDA just bailed out the top two poultry producers in the US with a $42 million purchase of chicken products, which are going into school lunch programs across the country. The bailed-out poultry companies, unfortunately, both have ridiculously bad track records.
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