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Argh, can't seem to quote the above.
That is definitely no standard school lunch that I've ever seen. Just going over to my son's school lunch schedule, picking the first entry:
Monday, 4.6.15 (spring break is this coming week):
Crunchy breaded catfish or cheeseburger on a bun
Golden baked French fries
Diced pears, romaine lettuce
Green peas
Green beans
White, chocolate or strawberry milk
If you're ever worried that the youth of today are starving, just drive past your local school and take a look at the kids. I think it will put your fears to rest.
It depends on where you live. The kids in the districts where I taught were starving. The single biggest discipline issue was stealing food (and especially milk because it could be opened later) from the cafeteria. I once had a student get arrested at the local gas station because he asked them for the chicken strips they were about to throw out at the end of the day and they said no. For him (a gang member) asking for charity was a really big deal and he didn't react well when they said no.
Now, where I live now you're absolutely correct. There's a much much lower percentage of people who live in poverty. When I started out though I remember vividly seeing some politician on television saying that we don't have true poverty in America and that there aren't people living in squalor or children not being able to get enough to eat. The contrast between his comments and my experience at the time was striking.1 -
I agree with Acrylics. We are at a great school in a problematic, underfunded, unaccredited district but even a good percentage of our kids were on free and reduced lunch before they decided to make it free for all kids. For kids that may not get meals at home, having the security of meals at school is really important and I have no problem with them feeding kids "unhealthy" choices that are safe bets just so those kids get something in their stomachs. I'd rather those kids have the option for pizza and chicken nuggets every day then only offer and have them turn down steamed fish and vegetables.1
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lemurcat12 wrote: »You know the comments from everyone about how great the kids food tasted when we were kids and how terrible it tastes now does make me think there's something to it when my kids insist they don't like the food I make for dinner, that it's too "spicy" which I think they just say because it has different flavors than the kid food. I always roll my eyes and think they are just being difficult but maybe the sweetness of the chef boyardee ravioli makes it a lot more palatable to them than my ravioli with homemade or even jarred marinara sauce.
There's something to this, I think.
It's funny to remember, but I HATED spicy food as a child. When we went to whatever Americanized Mexican place we went to, I'd order from the kid's menu--a burger, of course. I'm not sure when that changed, but by my teens I prided myself on being a somewhat adventurous eater and liked lots of spicy things (inherited from my parents, probably, as they love telling stories about how they went out to dinner with some Indian/Thai/Korean friend who said Americans would find something or other too spicy, but they loved it). My sister still doesn't care for spicy, though.
But isn't there something science-related behind being born with the ability to enjoy sweet flavors but having to grow into spicy and bitter?
Yup, I remember this from my Evolution of the Human Diet class at uni. Totally a thing. It's part of our defense mechanism as omnivores against poisoning ourselves, bitter is a natural aversion, but we can overcome it, ie learn to eat bitter/spicy foods - we try it, it doesn't make us sick, we continue to eat it. I still remember my professor telling us about this and using cats as an example of an animal, as obligate carnivores, who will not eat spicy. I told her about my spicy food-loving cat (srsly, Indian food, he wanted to clean the plate, and loved hot 'n spicy Pringles). I probably have some reading references for this if anyone wants to know more. It also ties into the reflex to throw up from bad food, and is why if you eat something that makes you sick, or even just stuff when you have a tummy bug that you then throw up, you set yourself up for rejecting that food in the future (gag reflex). I once put myself off apple juice for ages by drinking it when I had a tummy bug
. This is how I know ice cream, chips, pizza, doughnuts etc are not bad food, our bodies would reject them if they were 
(oh I am so pulling that one out on the next 'bad foods' thread!!). I've probably explained all that terribly, still on my first coffee! 1 -
Isn't it a sad thought, that a lunch at school may be he only meal a kid gets? My church does an amazing g thing they call backpack buddies. They pack bags with non perishable foods, hygiene products and whatnot to help the underprivileged children in the school district.
I wish we didnt have to have such problems. The thoughts of kids going hungry makes me want to cry so hard 0 -
hollyrayburn wrote: »Isn't it a sad thought, that a lunch at school may be he only meal a kid gets? My church does an amazing g thing they call backpack buddies. They pack bags with non perishable foods, hygiene products and whatnot to help the underprivileged children in the school district.
I wish we didnt have to have such problems. The thoughts of kids going hungry makes me want to cry so hard
There were programs like that in my district-- for elementary kids. Once the students age out into high school the types of programs like that drop to near zero in my area. Maybe it's better elsewhere.0 -
hollyrayburn wrote: »Isn't it a sad thought, that a lunch at school may be he only meal a kid gets? My church does an amazing g thing they call backpack buddies. They pack bags with non perishable foods, hygiene products and whatnot to help the underprivileged children in the school district.
I wish we didnt have to have such problems. The thoughts of kids going hungry makes me want to cry so hard
Yes. It truly is awful that this can happen.
However, let us face facts. According to the AHA, anyway, if their stats are good, as of 2011 one in three children in the U.S. were overweight, including an obese segment (I don't know what percentage of the overweight children are/were obese).
Poverty is an obvious and very, very hard exception (though it is by no means impossible that an impoverished person be obese), but overwhelmingly, no, our children are not in a national crisis of being chronically underfed at lunch time. I am not trying to sound cavalier - even one underfed child is one child too many, and anyone would have to have no heart at all to think that's okay. But the intimation that school lunches are generally - meaning, as a rule - too small just wouldn't appear to be valid, from an overall perspective.
As far as "healthy" choices, I was pointing out total calories; people make their own choices specifically as far as health is concerned and we all have different definitions of "healthy food" anyway. I'm not about to make a judgment there.
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It's been years since I've had a Cadberry Egg. Can someone tell me what they taste like and if there is a taste difference between the regular egg and the mini eggs? My husband says they're too sweet but I have yet to find a food too sweet for my tastes.0
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This thRead took a serious turn, we need to get back to bunny jokes and MMA training tips!0
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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »The kids in the districts where I taught were starving.
Yeah, that the school breakfasts and lunches are a major part of the nutritional needs for some huge percentage of the students is an issue at CPS, too.0 -
Hah, reason this is my favorite thread: it j chides cage fighting, egg fights, peep dresses, and childhood poverty and obesity. We have it ALL!!0
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hollyrayburn wrote: »Hah, reason this is my favorite thread: it j chides cage fighting, egg fights, peep dresses, and childhood poverty and obesity. We have it ALL!!
It is, for sure, MFP at its finest.
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hollyrayburn wrote: »Hah, reason this is my favorite thread: it j chides cage fighting, egg fights, peep dresses, and childhood poverty and obesity. We have it ALL!!
Man. I need to start proofreading. Gotta love the autocorrect on iPhones. Haha.
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we live in a poor rural area and kids get free breakfast and lunch. its not great, but could be worse. this is mondays choices in the elem. school my son goes to:
breakfast
Cinnamon Bun or Breakfast Pizza
Juice or Milk
lunch
Chicken Rings or Beanie Weenies or Uncrustable PBJ
Yeast Roll or Mashed Potatoes
Seasoned Greens
Tropical Fruit
milk
on the upside, since there are no eggs, all of these children will surely grow to be MMA fighters!1 -
And to stop being a downer, here's some advice on what to do with your hard boiled egg:
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lemurcat12 wrote: »And to stop being a downer, here's some advice on what to do with your hard boiled egg:
Heh, oops, don't know how to fix that. I guess it will remain a mystery to everyone else!2 -
hollyrayburn wrote: »hollyrayburn wrote: »Hah, reason this is my favorite thread: it j chides cage fighting, egg fights, peep dresses, and childhood poverty and obesity. We have it ALL!!
Man. I need to start proofreading. Gotta love the autocorrect on iPhones. Haha.
Oh but Autocorrect delivers its own very special brand of entertainment.
I remember when I was in PM with a male pen pal and I was trying to tell him that I was an "NJ girl." This is insane, but my Kindle kept trying to autocorrect NJ to BJ. I was flustered and kept trying to repeatedly correct this, but I suppose a little too fast, so I was telling this man over and over, "No no, I meant I'm a BJ girl, a BJ girl!"
No wonder he wanted to be my pen pal.1 -
hollyrayburn wrote: »hollyrayburn wrote: »Hah, reason this is my favorite thread: it j chides cage fighting, egg fights, peep dresses, and childhood poverty and obesity. We have it ALL!!
Man. I need to start proofreading. Gotta love the autocorrect on iPhones. Haha.
Oh but Autocorrect delivers its own very special brand of entertainment.
I remember when I was in PM with a male pen pal and I was trying to tell him that I was an "NJ girl." This is insane, but my Kindle kept trying to autocorrect NJ to BJ. I was flustered and kept trying to repeatedly correct this, but I suppose a little too fast, so I was telling this man over and over, "No no, I meant I'm a BJ girl, a BJ girl!"
No wonder he wanted to be my pen pal.
And there was the time I was going to get a pedicure before heading to my best friends house. I informed her "I'll be there soon, just gonna find somewhere to get a pedophile while I'm out and about"
Gotta love it. 0 -
I was at a 4H poultry event today. THERE WILL BE NO CAGEFIGHTERS HERE!
Plus we got ice cream at the state university Ag school shop afterwards. WINNING IN NORTHERN CT.0 -
Here's a new "twist" on a hard boiled egg:
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The thread that won't die (dye?): According to this story, this product called "Easter Egg Cookies" had to be recalled because they do, in fact, contain eggs.0
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LITtlerMeCO wrote: »Here's a new "twist" on a hard boiled egg:
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Video is blocked at work, but... all my hard boiled eggs have the yolk on the inside. Am I doing it wrong?0 -
PeachyPlum wrote: »LITtlerMeCO wrote: »Here's a new "twist" on a hard boiled egg:
foodandwine.com/fwx/food/learn-make-reverse-hard-boiled-eggs-yolks-inside?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_393453&xid=partner_zergnet
Video is blocked at work, but... all my hard boiled eggs have the yolk on the inside. Am I doing it wrong?
No, you're doing it right...with yolks on the inside like God intended.
The person who typed the title of that article, however, is doing it wrong. Very wrong.0 -
5 more days!
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hollyrayburn wrote: »PeachyPlum wrote: »DemoraFairy wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »PeachyPlum wrote: »hollyrayburn wrote: »Keeping it alive!!
Bought A 5 pack of Cadbury eggs today. I'm gonna have one later.
Since it's not a hard boiled egg, I can still become a cage fighter, yeah?
That depends. Are they the caramel eggs, or the crème eggs?
Because the crème eggs are ****ing nasty - if you can eat one of those without gagging, you totally have what it takes to be a cage fighter.
You are dead to me.
Dead. To. Me.
:indifferent:
Dead to me as well. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, she never existed.
Seriously? You should all be kissing my tail in order to receive my cast-off Easter basket rejects.
Amateurs.
I only accept your candy if you try to give it to me from your van. YOUR TERROIST VAN!!
This one?
So, my friend got a vanagon, and this is his personalized plate:
He's driven it across the country for a few trips, so there's a lot of pictures of it popping up on facebook and instagram.0 -
In my neighborhood (well, next town over on the way to my home gym), you never know what you're going to find in an Easter Egg. In this case, a T-Rex!
(Look for "Dug the T-Rex" on Facebook for more great costumes for my favorite yard dinosaur!)
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I grew up in the UK where the Easter Bunny wasn't a thing. Your parents, or someone else who liked you, said "Happy Easter" and handed you a chocolate egg. I got in trouble when we first arrived in Canada and I said, in front of a school friend of my son "Oh we just leave the eggs out for the kids on Easter morning". I got a stern look and a hard foot-nudge and had to quickly back-pedal.This is the first I've heard of leaving something for the Easter bunny (if I'm reading that correctly). Then again, my kids never believed in the Easter bunny. It was always a just-for-fun story for them. They somehow managed to swallow the whole Santa Claus thing, but a human-size rabbit inexplicably carrying eggs around (rabbits don't lay eggs, rabbits don't eat eggs, I mean what the...? At least Santa Claus's excuse was that he liked kids, supposedly) was just a bridge too far for them.
I am English and Easter eggs are on sale from 1st January in every super market. If a child doesn't connect the colourful chocolate eggs sold in the supermarket for the past 4 months with the ones they receive at Easter I would consider them special.1
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