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CHICAGO – Hummus is too fatty, pretzels are too salty. Even hard-boiled eggs and yogurt don’t make the cut.

Those restrictions and others imposed on schools through the revamped “healthier” National School Lunch Program convinced officials in Illinois’ second largest school district to forfeit nearly $1 million in federal lunch aid to serve students food they want to eat, rather than what the government tells them to, CBS reports.

“So far so good. The meals, as you’ve seen, look fantastic, and there’s a lot of excitement,” District 214 Associate Superintendent Cathy Johnson told the news station as officials recently unveiled their new menu.

The federal “healthier” school lunch overhaul, championed by First Lady Michelle Obama, has been a boondoggle for public schools across the country. The tightened restrictions, intended to combat childhood obesity, have driven more than 1 million students away from school lunches and created over $1 billion per year in food waste since they were implemented in 2012.

The drastic drop-off in lunch sales is prompting an increasing number of school districts to ditch the regulations and attached federal funding to save their floundering cafeteria programs. Just this week, two other New York school districts dropped out.

District 214 administrators told CBS the unreasonable restrictions on protein, sodium and fat made preparing meals students would buy nearly impossible, while the district-inspired menu “would be far simpler,” according to Johnson.

Crispy falafel with flatbread and rice pilaf, and pasta primavera with roasted vegetables and olive oil – two new menu items in District 214’s lineup – would have violated the federal regulations because of low protein content, for example.

 

 

“What would happen is the sales simply wouldn’t be there, and the offerings that we would currently have wouldn’t be available,” Johnson told CBS.

 

http://eagnews.org/illinois-2n...is-deemed-too-fatty/

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Originally Posted by seeweed:

Here is an example of what other countries feed their kids at school:

 

http://www.naturalcuresnotmedi...VA11qd-b5GQ.facebook

 

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So much of the healthy french attitude comes from the home first. Many parents here allow kids to dictate their diet or are not properly educated in healthy nutrition it the first place. Kids are brought up eating processed rubbish and fast foods which results int hem craving more. On the European continent however the attitude is the complete reverse.
We need to teach by example, educate our children on real food.

 

This is so true. It is why we do not feed our kids any processed crap or soft drinks at home. Also, if they do not like what is being served that night then they have the choice of not eating it, but nothing else will be served. I can't tell you how many of our friends' kids will only eat chicken nuggets and other junk. 

Originally Posted by seeweed:

Here is an example of what other countries feed their kids at school:

 

http://www.naturalcuresnotmedi...VA11qd-b5GQ.facebook

 

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France still serves some excellent food. However, Mcds is very popular.

 

I suggest this link for better info

http://karenlebillon.com/french-school-lunch-menus/

 

However, most of the cheeses would be banned under Michelle's program as too fatty. Plus, the baguettes taste like cardboard, unless the baker is from the country or Vietnamese.

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