Re: Why The GOP Is Fighting Against Healthy Food For Kids

Kids don't like stuff like quinoa...I happen to love it , but it was an acquired taste.

I don't hate Mrs. Obama...why do you always project like that. Do I think she's a pushy , know it all? Sure. I don't like her , but that doesn't equate to hate. 

I made the point that I would rather if my tax dollars were going to be used that the food be not thrown away because the kids won't eat it. How is that forgetting the poor? They must EAT the food that they are provided by the tax payer. If they don't it's wasteful on all levels. Give some decent choices and if they don't like it bring their own lunch. That is not being hateful with the exception that I hate waste in both food, and my tax money.

HoneyCrisp are the best apples out there. Kids should learn to eat nutritious food at home first and foremost. It's the parents job. Not the schools. If a kid never saw or ate lets say...3 bean salad...they aren't going to try it at school.

 

On Sunday, June 1, 2014 7:56:49 AM UTC-6, Justice wrote:

1) Poor parents rely on school lunch programs as a way to feed their children.  They are a captive audience.  (You ALWAYS forget about the poor.  Why is that?)  Many children eat breakfast and lunch at school.  And they need to LEARN to eat nutritious foods.  The cheapest foods on the market right now are fast foods $1.00 menu.  You cannot purchase a hamburger to make at home that costs a dollar.  Right now with beef around $9.00 a pound, it costs $2.25 to make a hamburger at home.  Of course, you're getting actual meat and not a surprise meat.  But the point is when you don't have money, a $1.00 hamburger can pass for food.

2) Like math and spelling and grammar, food isn't something you skip cause changing from bad to good habits just happens to be hard.  And it's very clear that most americans eat a horrible diet.  That impacts health, job prospects, ability to learn and almost everything that happens later in life when a child is malnurished.  Just Imagine the crime -- starving children for $$$$ either put into the organization or into the pockets of republicans.  Could anything be more disgusting?  Cause that's exactly what is happening here.

3) They are serving whole apples and finding that they are being thrown away.  It may be more difficult (of course I remember the days when food lunch ladies were cooks and not janitors) but they could cut them up and put them in "sweet" salads.  I still have trouble sitting down and eating a whole apple.  It's likely cause red delicious left a very bad taste in my mouth as a kid, and no matter how I switch it up with Jonathan's and Gala and Granny Smith hybrids, It's never been one of the my favorite foods.  But I eat them -- cause I chop them up, mix them with celery and nuts, put a little mayonnaise on the whole thing and eat a salad.  Sometimes I add grapes, sometimes I add strawberries but it's a great way to eat it and I betcha big bucks I can get 90 out of 100 kids to eat an apple prepared my way.  I can also make a very mean Apple Betty with 1/2 whole grain flour.  Get the lunch ladies to start cooking again -- or get the food producers to make a more healthy alternative to the crappola they are now feeding the children.

The lunches I've seen mostly show Grannies.  That's a very sophisticated choice for a young child.  Sure they need to learn to eat bitter, but maybe school isn't the best place for it.  A Gala -- nice hybrid very sweet - or a Honeycrisp or a Fuji would be my choice or them.  They are sweet, and juicy and small.  Grannies last forever so no one has to pick them up fresh once every few day.  But they are too sour for a kid used to eating chocopuffs with sugar for breakfast.

If they did something interesting a couple of times or a month or whatever it takes, you'd find that children would happily eat an apple a day.  A little imagination and some effort is all it takes to begin to eat healthy.  I fed my kids greens from the time they were babies.  I simply wasn't going to take no for an answer.  But I wasn't poor, I didn't want any food fights (and I never had one) and I introduced different foods very early in their lives so they could develop those tastes early.

If Mrs. Obama had not begun this program -- there would be no program.  Kids have been eating crappy food since King Reagan (ketchup is a vegetable was one of his finest hours).  Your hate of her is as obvious as my hatred of all the republicans.  But I didn't hate Pickles cause she went to school to read to children.  As stupid, and downright retarded I believe her to be, I still didn't hate her for trying to do something good for children.

health is not hippy dippy.  It's patriotic and good for america and keeping crap out of the schools helps the entire society in the long run -- kids learn better, they are more alert, and our health care costs go down.  And to denigrate it is just about as ....  well, nevermind.  Think about it before you go off into the wild blue yonder.

On Sunday, June 1, 2014 8:06:34 AM UTC-4, Navybrat wrote:

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