school tells mom that childs lunch is unhealthy and send bil

godblessourhome

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/02/14/outrage-after-school-tells-mom-her-child’s-lunch-is-unacceptable/

thoughts on the lunch police?

MB_Positif

yeah...honestly that is ridiculous. I mean, her lunch was just fine. Maybe the potato chips weren't the best selection, but it sounds better than some other things!!!

DeenieWeenie

The school's lunch is hardly delicious. I would of been outraged, If I was the parent I wouldn't of been anonymous. I'd of been loud and clear!

mgmlap

This coming from a place that thinks pizza is a vegetable..I would have been royally pissed aswell...

angraham2

This just makes me angry. The school has no right to do that and bill the parents. I would fight it.

Okieace

It is seriously scary to think schools has something called the "lunch inspector". It isn't anyone's business what parents feed their kids. That parent had sent their kid a pretty healthy meal, probably something far more healthy then what the school fed them.

Hell will freeze over before I send my kids to the sorry excuse of an education system we call public schools.

thirtyandthriving

I like how they broke it down into food groups rather than what the girls school lunch actually consisted of. I am fairly certain that that is because the schools lunch consisted of crap!

thirtyandthriving

This coming from a place that thinks pizza is a vegetable..I would have been royally pissed aswell...

Don't forget that french fries and vegetables

CuteAndCurvy83

This coming from a place that thinks pizza is a vegetable..I would have been royally pissed as well...

Thats exactly what I was thinking!!! The chips aren't the best option but who knows, they may have been baked? We had a little girl at the daycare that had chips in her lunch every day, but she knew she wasn't allowed to have them until she finished her sandwich or other "main" course and her fruit and veggies. And no one ever had to remind her. Most of the time she ate her regular food at lunch with a bottle of water and saved the chips and a juice box for snack time. The only time I felt bad or anything about a childs lunch was when they were sent in with a banquet meal and a can of soda...Which happened quite often.

ki4yxo

Meanwhile today in Wake county this was
on the menu:



http://www.wcpss.net/child-nutrition/February 2012 - ES.pdf


I'm so glad I home shool our son.

MyFeistyEvolution

WOW!!!!!! :noway:

I would've told the school to go get bent.

I worked for a very large school district for a bit and the school lunches were disgusting....a "protein serving" was "chicken fries"....deep fried and gross.

rileysowner

By my count the meal fits those guidelines just fine.

Okieace

Meanwhile today in Wake county this was
on the menu:



http://www.wcpss.net/child-nutrition/February 2012 - ES.pdf


I'm so glad I home shool our son.

Woot! Home schoolers rock! Of course, I'm kind of biased... I was a home schooler. :-)

SithZombie

A SCHOOL is the last place that should be complaining about nutrition, considering what they serve is of a quality less than that served in prisons...

UponThisRock

LOL @ "lunch inspector"

The parents should arrange a protest and all send their kids to school with Twinkies.

Laurelje

Lunch police...boggles the mind! I feel sorry for both the little girl and her mother.

Laurelje

LOL @ "lunch inspector"

The parents should arrange a protest and all send their kids to school with Twinkies.

:laugh: ^THIS!!!^ :laugh:

zahra51

The school's lunch is hardly delicious. I would of been outraged, If I was the parent I wouldn't of been anonymous. I'd of been loud and clear!

You got that right.

Mmmporkrinds

I think it makes sense for schools to be concerned about kid's lunches - it seems sensible for someone to make sure kids eat OK, in cases where food provided by parents is really a problem, and it might as well be the school which deals with it. But I'd have been furious with the school in that case, because that lunch seemed completely fine to me. Especially when what I've heard about the school dinners (we don't have them in these parts) is that it's generally frozen crap. Ooh, I would have been cross...

MaximalLife

I would find out which school employed idiot caused the ruckus and make their life hell.

They'd have to move out of the community.

p0pr0cksnc0ke

HA!! I would hand them my grocery store reciept and ask for them to foot the bill of feeding my child. I spend more than 1.25 on lunch for my kids and they aren't in school yet. I have yet to find a school that has non-processed food for kids. I went through private schools and the food they served was complete CRAP.

acasey0123

Im a student teacher right now and im at a school that deals with poverty and many of the meals are free or reduced but breakfast is free for all and they sometimes serve pizza for breakfast which of course isnt healthy so I wanna know what they serve for lunch at that school because that lunch was pretty healthy for the most part

pucenavel

Does the school have rules regarding lunch?

My child went to a school that did. And we followed the rules. That's what rules are.

I seriously doubt this was a public school (the one we went to was private), and the article doesn't specify the school or whether or not it had published rules.

Until I have more facts, I will hold my judgement.

becoming_a_new_me

I saw this and was like WTF!!??? My daughter's school serves things like chicken nuggets, french fries, corn, and applesauce. Like that is better than what this kid got? My daughter takes lunch several days a week because the lunch will be almost 100% carb-based and she would rather have a healthier option.

LaurasClimb

"a lunch inspector at the school told the girl she couldn’t eat her turkey sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice. Instead, providing the girl with a USDA-approved lunch with the following guidelines: one serving of meat, one serving of grains, and two servings of fruit or vegetables."

Ummm...They served her:
1 meat (mom provided Turkey)
1 grains (mom provided bread)
2 fruit an/or vegetables (mom provided a banana and apple juice)

I think I would have to tell the school district exactly where they could stick their bill! Mom provided her daughter with exactly the same food components as the school.

School lunches, in my opinion, are completely lacking when it comes to being healthy! They are loaded with pre-packaged garbage - most schools do not make their own food any more.

Mom0fTwo

OK so schools are complaining about lunches? That is not their responsibility, what they should be more focused on is putting more than 30 mins of gym time per week, I remember having gym 3 times a week as a kids for a minimum of 60 mins, now my son get 30 mins 1 time/week, at the young ages i think it is less about what goes into their mouth and more about establishing a healthy active lifestyle as well

kryptonitekelly

What the flying f***?
REALLY?

That lunch is healthier than what most kids eat for lunches these days. Crisps, yeah maybe unhealthy, but she's a 4 year old girl. She's active and growing. Besides, the rest of the contents weren't bad at all.

Stupid health people. I understand feeding your kids chocolate bars...milkshakes...other fatty varieties of sandwiches, but a turkey sandwich and banana...AND APPLE JUICE!!! What the hell!?

Alej32

I can kinda relate to this mom because at my kids school, (state of Florida), EVERYTHING they give these kids is whole grain and healthy...it has NO flavor...no seasonings, not even a little bit of garlic...no salt...blandest food I have ever tasted...I go up there and eat with them sometimes and the food is so gross that the kids arent even eating it...dont get me wrong, I understand that with childhood obesity school is the one place that kids are guaranteed some kind of nutrition but is it healthier for the kids to starve themselves by not eating it?? I think that is worse than eating a well balanced meal with FLAVOR....my son is 9 years old and has the bone age of a 61/2-7 year old...his hgh levels are pretty low...His pediatrician has him on a high fat high calorie diet...I am suppossed to have him eat as many "bad" things as I can to try and put some weight on him...but unless I send his lunch to school with him everyday, he is not getting the food that he needs to grow....I would show my a** at our school if someone in the lunchroom tried to tell me what my child could or couldnt eat....you need to fight this tooth and nail!!!

Just1forMe

Okay, if the child was being fed Ho Ho's, Twinkies and Fluff Sandwiches every day as her whole lunch, I could see the school taking notice. But her lunch was perfectly acceptable...probably better than what they replaced it with! Just crazy...

foster59803

Here was the breakfast they serve at my kids school this morning:

MOZZARELLA MAX
STICKS
FRUIT AND/OR 100% JUICE
MILK

Here is my kids school lunch menu items for today...

BEAN & CHEESE BURRITO
GARDEN SALAD
FRUIT(CHOICE)
FRESH VEGETABLE
BANANA BREAD
MILK

And the fruit of choice is normally some kind of canned pre-sweetened fruit cup. Maybe an apple or banana. The "garden salad" consists of ice berg lettuce with ranch dressing... My kids never eat school lunch... and I would be furious!

Bentley2718

I have a hard time blaming schools for the low quality of the meals, given the pittance that federal and state governments give them to feed children with, BUT I also think sending kids home with notes about their lunches is out of line, especially given that the kid's lunch wasn't that bad. Not what I would feed my child if I had one, but it's not like the lunch was a twinkie and a can of soda or something.