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SARTELL, Minn. – There’s a sign in the lunchroom of Minnesota’s Sartell High School: Students can choose two packets of barbecue sauce, or three ketchup packets, or two ketchups and a mustard, or just one packet of mayonnaise.

 

The new condiment quotas are the product of new federal regulations that strictly limit calories, fat, sodium, sugar and most other nutritional elements of school snacks and lunch foods.

The rules, championed by First Lady Michelle "Mooche" Obama as a means to combat childhood obesity, are part of the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The measure, implemented in phases since 2012, overhauled the National School Lunch Program to force schools that receive federal lunch funding to offer “healthier” meals and school snacks for students.

But the overbearing regulations have thus far convinced a record number of students to bring their lunches from home. Lunchrooms across the country are experiencing significant revenue loss, and increasing waste due to a requirement that all students take a fruit or vegetable, whether they eat it or not.

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UPDATE!

 

"Death of the Mini Corn dog"...

 

The sales loss is troubling, she said, because the new whole-grain rich foods are more expensive to begin with.

“The students enjoy mini corn dogs. We won’t be able to serve those every day,”  Braulick said.

 

 

“All juices must be 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice, or diluted with water but no added sweeteners,” she said.

Elementary students are now limited to 8-ounce servings of milk or juice, and middleschoolers are limited to 12 ounces, SCTimes.com reports.

Snacks are now limited to 200 calories, while full lunches cannot exceed 850.

“Any condiments or accompaniments must also be included in that nutritional profile,” said Braulick, adding that the district is lobbying for exemptions, such as eliminating the mandatory fruit or vegetable requirement.

“To tell them they have to take it does not get them to consume it,” she said.

Meanwhile, at Minnesota’s largest high school, officials have already determined that the nonsensical federal lunch edicts are more trouble than they’re worth.

Not disputing anything, but most older folks talk about how good school lunches were. The cooks were home makers and all the food was good old home cooked foods, according to them. Anyway, what people eat is NOT the governments business. It can suggest, as has been done for years, it can teach, as has been done for years, what eating healthy is all about, but it is NOT their place to force people to eat the way they think they should.

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