Congress said Pizza is a Veggie to Save Money On School Luches! o

Seems everytime I ask my sons what was for lunch today at school?...it's always Pizza or chicken nuggets....I don't feel they get a well-balanced meal(s)....and the servings are small. High-schoolers eat more...and when my boys come home, they are starving!
 
rockin'robin said:
Seems everytime I ask my sons what was for lunch today at school?...it's always Pizza or chicken nuggets....I don't feel they get a well-balanced meal(s)....and the servings are small. High-schoolers eat more...and when my boys come home, they are starving!
Click to expand...

Perhaps they can start to issue tickets for pizza, similar to rationing from the Depression era. When they use their tickets up, they are out of luck. I suppose this would create a black market for those tickets, but short of asking the school to stop serving pizza, dunno what else they can try. I doubt the school really cares, since pizza is probably a huge money maker for thm. I remember the battles over soda machines.
 
My kids get plenty to eat from school. They do have pizza and chicken nuggets at the alternative line daily, They also have other planned meals.

I do know that schools around here offer higher calories on Monday and Fridays since some kids only get to eat meals at school. Sad indeed.
 
rockin'robin said:
Seems everytime I ask my sons what was for lunch today at school?...it's always Pizza or chicken nuggets....I don't feel they get a well-balanced meal(s)....and the servings are small. High-schoolers eat more...and when my boys come home, they are starving!
Click to expand...

Typical teenagers are always STARVING, believe me they get plenty to eat at school. Go visit the cafeteria.

High Schoolers get a larger serving, than elementary schoolers.
 
My public schools from late 80s and early 90s served pizza, chicken nuggets, and fried meat, but I rarely ate it. My parents refused to give us lunch money, because they thought the lunch menu was so bad. She also told me the lunch menu in 50s and 60s was complete opposite. Everyone drank milk and water. No pizza.

How can they say that tomato is a vegetable when it is a fruit?
 
But tomato is fruit! Imagine, I mashed apple into sauce and replace tomato sauce! Maybe it taste much sweet!
 
What's funny? Prison's meal have actual better nutrients than school's!
 
Good ole GOP. Just change the classification so it makes it look like you support healthy diets for school children. Talk about twisting and turning.:roll:
 
Barbaro said:
My public schools from late 80s and early 90s served pizza, chicken nuggets, and fried meat, but I rarely ate it. My parents refused to give us lunch money, because they thought the lunch menu was so bad. She also told me the lunch menu in 50s and 60s was complete opposite. Everyone drank milk and water. No pizza.

How can they say that tomato is a vegetable when it is a fruit?
Click to expand...

It tells us how ignorant the Congress is. Seriously.
 
Ugh, K-12 schools are no college so I think that government has rights to tell kids about what they should eat or not eat to fight the obesity.

I rather to make own lunch for children than give $$$ for fatty school lunch.
 
Barbaro said:
My public schools from late 80s and early 90s served pizza, chicken nuggets, and fried meat, but I rarely ate it. My parents refused to give us lunch money, because they thought the lunch menu was so bad. She also told me the lunch menu in 50s and 60s was complete opposite. Everyone drank milk and water. No pizza.

How can they say that tomato is a vegetable when it is a fruit?
Click to expand...

Well, tomato is technically a fruit of the tomato plant but it is cooked as a vegetable.
 
Yep, I disagree with the way it was defined. That goes for cucumber,too. Once the seed is removed, and cooked, so it is a vegetable. Not really. My father is an agronomist/ scientist, and said that it is a fruit no matter what. Botanists have said the same thing. However, the court disagree with botanists and scientists that uh, tomato is legally a vegetable, not a fruit.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Tomato sauce on pizza is a vegetable, says Congress; *GOP says healthier school lunches are too expensive* - NY Daily News
Click to expand...

I was watching supersize me last night and in the film, he was saying that there was a school for the more "difficult" teens and their lunch program consists of healthy foods, lots of veggies, all baked, not fried, no pizza, no hamburgers, no fries, etc. And that the teachers had noted students having much better attention span in class, much better grades, much better behaved, hardly any violence, and that the rate of obesity is very very low. Apparently the lunch meals didn't cost any more than what one would pay for the soda/junk food at other schools.

Healthy lunches are affordable, but fast food/soft drink companies make a lot of money from schools so they put a lot of resources in convincing school boards that the revenue they get from selling their products would help pay for better education and that switching to healthy lunch programs would mean less educational resources. It's messed up.
 
DeafCaroline said:
I was watching supersize me last night and in the film, he was saying that there was a school for the more "difficult" teens and their lunch program consists of healthy foods, lots of veggies, all baked, not fried, no pizza, no hamburgers, no fries, etc. And that the teachers had noted students having much better attention span in class, much better grades, much better behaved, hardly any violence, and that the rate of obesity is very very low. Apparently the lunch meals didn't cost any more than what one would pay for the soda/junk food at other schools.

Healthy lunches are affordable, but fast food/soft drink companies make a lot of money from schools so they put a lot of resources in convincing school boards that the revenue they get from selling their products would help pay for better education and that switching to healthy lunch programs would mean less educational resources. It's messed up.
Click to expand...

Supersize Me is an eye opener.
 
PowerON said:
But tomato is fruit! Imagine, I mashed apple into sauce and replace tomato sauce! Maybe it taste much sweet!
Click to expand...

That is right! tomatoes are fruit! Ronald Regan wanted to use ketchup as a veggies for kids lunches but it did not pass. I wonder want Mrs. Obama think about pizza being called a veggie as she is trying to get kids to lose weight.
 
Babyblue said:
Typical teenagers are always STARVING, believe me they get plenty to eat at school. Go visit the cafeteria.

High Schoolers get a larger serving, than elementary schoolers.
Click to expand...

When I was in high school the students went on a protest and refused to buy the school lunches as they where getting the same food all the time. It helped we got better lunches .
 
Back
Top