And what do we think of this:

loveshine1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110411/us_yblog_thelookout/chicago-school-bans-homemade-lunches-the-latest-in-national-food-fight

ReturnOfKuus

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you all to vote Libertarian in all future elections.

AuntFlo

Homeschooling is looking better and better!

**O-Face**

Ha.  So stupid.

zsazsa-stl

This is dumb.  But now I want to know what kids were bringing that was so unhealthy?  There aren't all that many high fat foods that are good at room temperature.  I can't imagine kids bringing in their own french fries and deep-fried burritos.  Maybe they had a few Precious-esque kids bringing buckets of stolen fried chicken?

baconsmom

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_think-of-this-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:eb8637e4-6456-4bd9-a147-a187a7f04b51Post:852d1a85-4472-4cf5-a79d-6d03689aa72f">Re: And what do we think of this:</a>:
[QUOTE]I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you all to vote Libertarian in all future elections.
Posted by ReturnOfKuus[/QUOTE]
<draws picture of me and Kuus at the voting booth, surrounded by hearts /> <div>
</div><div>I'd pull my kid out of that school. Whether that was a "legal" option or not. </div>

MizBiscuit

BS. I would be the parent to send lunch in anyway then make the school provide the lunch for free since my food wasn't good enough for them. Sorry imaginary future kids, I will be an embarassment to you, I am sure.

hmonkey

as will i, and i will throw in a "i'm foreign!  i don't understand" on top of this.  and i don't care that i CAN afford it; i don't want to pay it.

MinM

Well, I want to know what the cafeteria food is going to look like?

Is it going to be like this lady's experience?

http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/

Or the time I went to school to collect data and the lunch was a biscut (carbs), fries (carbs), canned peaches (sugar), chicken nuggets (argueably the best thing about the meal, but they weren't real chicken, it was compressed chicken 'parts') and the option item was corn.

I don't know if this is the answer. I'd like to see better individually accountability for children and what they eat. But I am sure I will be told I am not a parent and I don't understand and I should STFU.

MinM

hmo - you are no more foreign than I am.

baconsmom

What's better accountability than the kid packing their own lunch, Min? Do you mean you want more accountability for shitty cafeteria food? Privatize the schools. Then the customers can demand the accountability they want. 

dharmabunny

But school lunches aren't terribly much better than home food.  It's pretty close to trash too.  I'd probably send or else get a doc's note that the kid's allergic to processed crap.

But then again, when I went to school (private), home lunches were banned too.  Everyone had to eat family style.  Attendance was taken.

baconsmom

Bacon's school lunches are considerably less healthy than what I send her with. It's all burritos and burgers with tots and pizza and nuggets. 

MinM

Accountability on the parent's part - for their own child.

Having been on the free and reduced lunch program, I can tell you that "food" wasn't nutritious. I get the point of the program, but those lunches should be changed if a parent can't feed their child otherwise.

BUT, IF THEY CAN, they should be sending better food than what the school provides. And if it's gotten so bad that the government is saying that they should decide to feed someone's kid - that's sad (and unfair to parents who ARE feeding their children well). I'd be pissed.

baconsmom

Yeah, I don't actually think it's that bad. I just think government likes to pronounce that it's that bad, because they *think* they know better. 

This would quickly turn into another "graham crackers are cookies" clusterfuck IMO. And that wasn't even the gov't bureaucracy pulling that sht - that was just the school bureaucracy. 

I don't feel that I, as a parent, have to be accountable to anyone for what I feed my kid. Well, except my kid. 

MinM

That is what I was talking about, accoutability to you child. You brought that kid here, you should take care of them to the best of your ability. But WTF do I know. I'm probably barren for a reason.

baconsmom

Oh, oh, I see. I thought you meant I should be accountable to someone else for what I feed my kid. 

Then again, I'm quick to assume evil commie intent.  

And FTR, I don't think you need to not have an opinion because you don't have kids. At the moment, you're paying for this crap, too. You get to have opinions about what you buy. 

*Barbie*

i brought my lunch to school about 80% of the time because i didn't like the swill that they tried to pass off as food (please explain the health benefits of a "sloppy joe"), and the stuff that i packed was considerably healthier. (yogurt, fruit, etc)

hmonkey

i would seriously send my kid to school with a coconut and a hammer.

E Squared

Because y'all know I was in high school all of, what, two years ago? 

The high school cafeteria food was a load. of. crap. I can count on my pinky the things I got from the school cafeteria---coffee. That's it.

We would always either eat at the independent food trucks (which usually just bought Taco Bell/McDonald's/Subway and brought it to us) or befriend a junior/senior with a car and risk our lives in Miami traffic to get lunch and haul ass back in time for class. They ended up banning both of those and locking down the school after I graduated. 

I went to a private school for elementary school. The food was way better. Then again, mass-quantity arroz con gandules beats out my public middle school "deep dish pizza" any day of the week. 

/cool story, bro

6fsn

This is wrong on so many levels.  I bet I can feed my kid cheaper and healthier.  AAIf the average parent can do it better why can't the schools? 

Barbie - Haven't you seen the manwich commercial?  It is a veggie!

Side question-  Is there some mandate that lunches be hot?  I don't recall seeing/hearing lunch menus that have a sandwich.

We didn't have a cafeteria in elementary.  Middle school took too long to buy.  High school had great food and pretty healthy options. 

6fsn

Good timing- jamie Oliver is back on tonight.

jojobrn

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_think-of-this-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:eb8637e4-6456-4bd9-a147-a187a7f04b51Post:4f30915a-8937-42da-afb8-05a9f45880ef">Re: And what do we think of this:</a>:
[QUOTE]Barbie - Haven't you seen the manwich commercial?  It is a veggie! 
Posted by 6fsn[/QUOTE]

<div>Urgh, I hate those commercials.  </div><div>I am really bothered by this, considering I remember what lunches were like in elementary school, they haven't changed around here much at all. The schools are going about this the wrong way, and I am worried my niece is getting some of this idiocy at her school, she came home a few weeks ago and told my sister she is afraid of getting fat. The kid has great role modols, eats well for a 6 year old and I swear doesn't have an ounce of fat on her. </div>

ReturnOfKuus

We'd probably cause as massive an economic disaster by teaching kids intuitive eating as happened when slavery was abolished.

GBCK

This I so don't get.
We took lunches to school (instead of buying them) because 1-it was cheaper and 2-it was healthier.

For Cereal, I've dealt w/ these 'nutrition' experts...there may be some good ones but hell if I don't know better what a kid should eat than the ones schools employ

baconsmom

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[QUOTE]Good timing- jamie Oliver is back on tonight.
Posted by 6fsn[/QUOTE]
You know his whole thing is a big fat fail, right? The recipes he made for the last school were all higher in fat and calories than the original stuff. Not to mention the classism and general "I know better than you"-ness of his whole schtick.<div>
</div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/food/146354/how_tv_superchef_jamie_oliver's_'food_revolution'_flunked_out/?page=entire">http://www.alternet.org/food/146354/how_tv_superchef_jamie_oliver's_'food_revolution'_flunked_out/?page=entire</a></div>