We’re probably all used to seeing retro-licious lunchbox art decorating the outside of our favorite food carryalls. LunchboxAwesome, however, looks at the artful designs on the inside of lunchboxes. Muppets, cartoon characters, and animated figures are carefully composed out of food, making a colorful and creative display out of your mealtime endeavors.
More Liberal crap obviously originated by Moo-chelle Obama’s food police!
It was once a staple of public school cafeterias that blended the indulgent and the nutritious, satisfying parents and children both. But chocolate milk is uncontroversial no more. Dozens of districts have demanded reformulations. Others have banned it outright.
At the center of these battles are complex public health calculations: Is it better to remove sugary chocolate flavorings at the risk that many students will skip milk altogether, missing out on crucial calcium and Vitamin D? Or should schools instead make tweaks — less fat, different sweeteners, fewer calories — that might salvage the benefits while minimizing the downside?
However schools answer these questions, protest inevitably follows. When Fairfax County and D.C. schools banned chocolate milk last year from elementary lunch lines, officials heard not just from parents and students. They also received letters and petitions from a slew of nutritionists and influential special interest groups.
Most accused the districts of acting rashly, robbing students of a tasty drink and the vitamins and minerals that fuel bone and muscle growth.
“We got 10 to 20 e-mails a day,” said Penny McConnell, director of food and nutrition services for Fairfax. “It was a lot of pressure.”
Previously:
School Bans Lunches From Home
Nothing boils my blood faster than this kind of Liberal crap!
Packing school lunches for kids every day is no doubt a chore. But what if you weren’t allowed to?
One Chicago school has banned lunches brought from home, the Chicago Tribune reports. Administrators at Little Village Academy, a public school, say the policy is all in the name of good health. Principal Elsa Carmona told the Tribune she created the policy after watching students bring “bottles of soda and flaming hot chips” for their lunch.
“It’s about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It’s milk versus a Coke,” Carmona said.
Some kids and parents at the school beg to differ about the food quality, saying it doesn’t taste good, and the Tribune reported that dozens of kids threw food in the garbage, uneaten. We don’t know what’s on the menu at Little Village, but these photos of “an enchilada dish” are less than appealing. And really, when is the last time you sampled delicious fare in a school cafeteria? (I am forever haunted by the glue-like yellowish thing my elementary school called lemon pudding.)
Recipes aside, the policy leaves a bad taste in the mouth for plenty of other reasons.
Unless a student has a medical excuse to bring food from home, the only option other than eating cafeteria food is to eat nothing. (Think those kids will ace a quiz on an empty stomach?) And does something like glucose intolerance merit a medical excuse? What about vegetarianism?
Cost is another matter. What if parents don’t want to spend money on school lunch because they can send less expensive food from home?