American Thinker: The left is going to scream, and former first lady Michelle Obama is going to complain about her ‘legacy’ being dismantled, but President Trump has ended the era of ‘nasty, rotty‘ food, as it has been served up under the best of intentions with federal rules for all school food.
The Associated Press has harrumphed into the kickoff:
The U.S. school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas and other foods made mostly of refined grains.
The Trump administration is scaling back contested school lunch standards implemented under the Obama administration including one that required only whole grains be served. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday only half the grains served will need to be whole grains, a change it said will do away with the current bureaucracy of requiring schools to obtain special waivers to serve select refined grains foods.
Low-fat chocolate milk will also be allowed again. Previously, only fat-free milk could be flavored, although that rule had also been temporarily waived. A final goal for limiting sodium will be scrapped as well, but schools will still be required to meet reduced sodium targets.
Horrors! Bad food. That kids like. Including all that highly recommended carby stuff still sitting there at the bottom of the government’s food pyramid. read more
Chocolate woman bans chocolate milk, MSM rejoices.
Mooch, chocolate is not dark and evil, YOU ARE!
Elementary school I here I learned to lov e mac’n’cheese and creamed veg.
Who wants to eat from a menu designed by a Sasquatch that likes roadkill?
Not me. And not my kids either.
“nasty, rotty food”
That phrase made me laugh.
Get the Federal Government completely out of the education business!
Complete the pirouette Melania and dig up The Moose’s garden. Borrow an Excavator and let the NYT record you for her posterior, uh, posterity.
They need to go all the way. Children need WHOLE milk, and it you’re going to add sugar to it (for chocolate milk), it especially should not be reduced-fat milk.
Rules for thee, but not for ME. -Michelle Obama
“The left is going to scream…”
And when they do, remind them that “fat shaming” is a hate crime and grossly obese women are to be celebrated.
Well maybe the kids will now start facing the afternoon with a full stomach instead being distracted by an empty one because the food served was crap. Damn near every story I read about Mooch’s lunch program ended with the fact that the amount of food tossed by the kids had gone up when the menu changed.
Kids need activity. And good nutrition to support that activity. Responsible parents (like mine) can provide a decent lunchbag that is better than the institutional, lowest-bidder crap provided by the gov’t.
Guess her menu was shovel ready…
I’m curious, We drank whole milk, ate mac and cheese, could salt our food to our delight and a plethora of other foods. So why wasn’t my generation fat? Maybe it was because we got off our asses, played outside, climbed trees, ran around in the cold, swam and never heard of a video game. Our parents didn’t drive us to organized sports. Mothers actually cooked a meal, which you ate or starved that night. Mom, dad and the family sat down to a table to eat. To drink a soda you got on your bike and rode around town finding pop bottles. Then you cashed them in to buy your own freaking pop. The Moose’s lunch program was a typical leftist abysmal failure, resulting it kids throwing away most of it and bringing in bag lunches. Government, quit social engineering our lives!
“Guess her menu was shovel ready” -Cisco Kid
Hehehe. Golden.
And so is she!
As with so many rules that Trump’s administration has overturned this does not change what states can choose to do except to allow them more choice. The program was never mandatory, but tied federal funds (favoritism) to compliant behavior. The states are now free to choose, without penalty. Lefties should try taking the states to task if they think their meals are less than adequate – all the federal government is doing is recognizing their 10th Amendment rights.
Dominoes hates this development… 😛
A bloated, corrupt hog telling everyone else what not to eat.
Yup, that”s a democrat.
How about all moms and dads pay for or make their own kids lunch?
And while we’re at it make all schools local in funding and control.
Michelle Obama is TOO FAT to be telling other people what to eat.
Is she within the recommended government weight range for her age and height? No.
Paula Deen didn’t have her career lynched over saying the n-word.
She had her career kneecapped for telling everyone that Goddamn Amerikkka’s First Lunch Lady ate all her fried chicken not unlike a hypocrite. Or, Hippo Crite as the case may be.
https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/10/cat-fat-fight-michele-obama-vs-paula-deen.html
All it took was her first cafeteria lunch in kindergarten for me to absolutely commit to a first rate sack lunch every day for our kid. And what a lunch! I didn’t know it for some time, but the school principal made a point to check in every day at lunchtime to see what was on the menu. “Lunch” usually took the form of the previous night’s dinner portioned into a divided plate — chicken marsala with fettucine, chicken pot pie, pot roast with potatoes and veggies….
It’s a crime for the gov’t to waste our tax dollars on inedible fruits and veggies (unripe or uncooked) that just get dumped into the garbage. I’m very surprised the Mooch’s lunch program wasn’t thrown there right off the bat.