USDA to ease school meal standards/Making Food Taste Like Food Again

[azmastablasta]

Yikes moochie beez mad. Someone like Mooch wit an azz as big as the broadside of a barn shouldn't be telling kids how to eat anyway.

USDA to ease school meal standards
BY LYDIA WHEELER - 04/28/17 03:46 PM EDT

Newly minted Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is expected to unveil a new rule Monday aimed at giving schools more flexibility in meeting federal nutrition standards for school lunches.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Friday that Perdue and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) will make the announcement at the Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Va., where they are expected to eat lunch with the students.

Republicans have long been trying to dial back the standards that became a pillar of former first lady Michelle Obama’s initiative to curb childhood obesity in the U.S.

Roberts introduced legislation with Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) last year to give schools two more years to meet new reductions on sodium, but the bill never passed.
Renewed efforts to ease the federal standards came as disappointing news to some advocates.

The American Heart Association was quick to push back. In a statement, the group’s CEO, Nancy Brown, said the current standards are already working and that 99 percent of schools are in compliance.

“Improving children’s health should be a top priority for the USDA, and serving more nutritious foods in schools is a clear-cut way to accomplish this goal,” she said.

“Rather than altering the current path forward, we hope the agency focuses more on providing technical assistance that can help schools get across the finish line, if they haven’t done so already.”

http://thehill.com/regulation/healthcare/331148-usda-to-ease-school-meal-standards

 

[sandy hicks]

Finally, our school had real home cooking until mooshell came along.

 

[semo97]

How many kids know what real food tastes like. You give them the choice between a hot dog and a turkey breast sandwich and the hot dog will win. Same with French fries and a baked potato, fries will win. Moms do not cook at home so they do not have a clue what good food is. The kids will still waste 50% of it no matter what it is.

 

[Flesh Eater]

Everyone who reads my son's school menu (he's in first grade) says it looks delicious! Ha-ha! Even my son said the food is great, which is odd, because when his mother cooks a home-cooked meal (which is usually 5-6 nights a week), he won't eat it. But he'll eat a Hebrew National hot dog in a second.

When it comes to food, kids make no sense. At least mine don't make any sense.

 

[Tbone-AZ]

Originally Posted By: semo97How many kids know what real food tastes like. You give them the choice between a hot dog and a turkey breast sandwich and the hot dog will win. Same with French fries and a baked potato, fries will win. Moms do not cook at home so they do not have a clue what good food is. The kids will still waste 50% of it no matter what it is.

Not a lot of Ice cream going to waste in my house. Or other things. My kids eat what is put in front of them or they go hungry.

I have seen the food from the school and lets be honest. Dorris the lunch lady isn't taking the time to make anything that tastes good.

It has to be heated or nuked to be something they can handle, and even then they can mess up that.
WE have a school that dumped the lunch, and outsourced it. Local restaurants bring in healthy food and the kids eat it.

Penne pasta with rotisserie chicken, marinara sauce and broccoli mixed in, Low fat mozzarella sticks, and milk. is on the menu today.

 

[sandy hicks]

Heck TBone that sounds alright for an italian. In our school the lunch room ladies are local moms, aunts, and grand mothers. They used to cook scholl lunch likenthey cooked at home till mooshy got involved. Of course there are only about 200 qkids in the whole school.

 

[Tbone-AZ]

Originally Posted By: sandy hicksHeck TBone that sounds alright for an italian. In our school the lunch room ladies are local moms, aunts, and grand mothers. They used to cook scholl lunch likenthey cooked at home till mooshy got involved. Of course there are only about 200 qkids in the whole school.

Nothing wrong with that.. Sounds like it would be a good thing..

That size, they could make some pans of what i said they were doing at our school, and just vary it up.
These crazy restrictions make it so that the kids are eating nothing, vs. eating the uber healthy that those in power wouldn't eat at all.

There are plenty of chefs in the area if you went to them and said we are looking to update the school lunch with healthy in mind but what kids would eat. This is our budget what would you make?
You might be surprised.

One cook brings in Polish sausage chopped up and heated over mashed potato that has cauliflower mixed in to the taters, They take the portion of the potatoes and califlower and bake them to brown them and then put the pieces of polish sausage in the middle and they put ketchup and offer mustard to those that want it. It's healthier and the kids eat it.

Same for turkey burgers on lettuce with small corn on the cobb.

mini street taco's with mango sauce with cabbage. is another. You just tell them it's taco's and not talk about what's in it.

most of the issues that we were running into was that lunch ladies are anything but cooks. The school boards don't know anything about food, and most of them i feel wouldn't know how to cook at home either. (at least at our school)
What they did figure out was that they didn't need to replace stoves and run the kitchen, didn't need as many staff, and the part time kitchen help would come in and the local restaurants would bring in the food, at the same price per pupil, shovel it out, and then wipe down. simple and less cost to run.
there are no shortage of caterers to take the gig.

Kids are not getting fat eating a hotdog and small hand of potato chips and koolaid.
They are getting fat sitting around like rocks. IMO the kids have no endurance and get very little exercise. If schools really wanted to do something to help the health of the kids, they would have a longer day at school, stop with the non-sense that isn't reading, writing, Stem.
They would start at 8am, and then go to 4pm and have a couple of 20-30 minute breaks. one in the morning, lunch, then afternoon recess and get them out playing games. bring in sports, the same as they have in highschool and start small intermearal teams to play those sports after school at or next to the school. that would help the local high school teams get better, and give the parents help with getting the kids active, and playing sports vs. sitting at home.