“Kids will not eat what doesn’t taste good”

It may come as a shock to those who hold Masters degrees in Public Health and want to micromanage our lives, but it is turning out that Michelle Obama’s federal food guidelines are backfiring:

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – New federal school food regulations promoted by First Lady Michelle Obama are becoming a massive headache for many schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program.

And many, like Missouri’s Notre Dame Regional and Saxony Lutheran high schools, are taking matters into their own hands.

Those schools and numerous others across the country are ditching the federal regulations and the funding that comes with them to save their cafeteria programs, which have experienced a nose-dive in sales and skyrocketing waste since the new rules were implemented in 2012.

At Notre Dame, school officials turned to the professionals at My Daddy’s Cheesecake, Papa John’s, Tractors Classic American Grill and Chick-fil-A to bring in nutritious and tasty meals students enjoy for “restaurant Wednesdays,” SEMissourian.com reports.

Notre Dame’s lunch participation had dropped to about half of its 565 students and 65 faculty members under the federal guidelines, but jumped drastically to about 75 percent once officials did away with the tight restrictions on calories, fat, sodium,  whole grains, and numerous other aspects of school meals.

This is all so predictable. It has led parents to opt out any way they can, like sending the kids to school with microwavable meals, or (gasp!) taking the kids to McDonalds:

“We want to make sure we’re serving a well-rounded, healthy, balanced meal,” Saxony principal Mark Ruark told SEMissourian.com. “We don’t think the current federal guidelines give kids enough calories to sustain (them), especially those in extracurricular activities.”

“Kids will not eat what doesn’t taste good,” he said.

That’s the same conclusion parents and school officials in Alabama are coming to.

At Cleburne County Schools, where lunch participation dropped by 29 percent under Michelle O’s rules, Maria Gilbert said her children will no longer eat school food. Her 11th grader says it’s “nasty” and has opted to bring microwave food from home, at least until the school removed the appliance from the cafeteria. Gilbert said she’s often forced to find a quick meal for her famished kids after school, AnnisonStar.com reports.

“The drive-through at McDonald’s is always full after school as Gilbert and other parents stop to feed their hungry children on the way home, she said,” according to the news site.

I’m surprised the school bureaucrats don’t sic CPS on the parents for taking the kids to McDonalds. That’s certainly the way they think. If you have kids, they have authority over them, not you.

And to think that certain conservatives wonder why young men don’t want to “man up” and become fathers. (Too many men have realized that if you have a kid, you are screwed.)

 


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5 responses to ““Kids will not eat what doesn’t taste good””

  1. captain arizona Avatar
    captain arizona

    If you are hungry enough you will be surprised what you will eat!

  2. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    talk about spoiled. That kids would rather go hungry rather than eat healthy foods says more about how they are being raised at home than the quality and character of what is being offered.

  3. c andrew Avatar
    c andrew

    Hi Jeff,

    I’m not sure how healthy Michelle Obama’s food vendetta is. As this writer puts it, the major difference between “My Plate” and the old “Food Pyramid” is that one is round and the other is triangular.

    http://advmuscletherapy.com/?p=257

    c andrew

  4. WTP Avatar
    WTP

    “Kids will not eat what doesn’t taste good”
    …oh, they did in our house. Unless it was eggplant, our only mulligan. Though we did have choice of “buying or taking” school lunch based on what was published in the newspaper every week. Of course Mom packed a healthier lunch than the school cafeteria served in those days.

  5. Chocolatier Avatar
    Chocolatier

    In 2003, PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals) offered to give the public elementary school in Rodeo, California $20,000 worth of tofu and vege burgers if the town would change its name to ‘Animal Unity.’ The town declined the offer. It seems the kids in Rodeo’s school didn’t want vege-tofu burgers, and nobody in the town wanted to change the name anyway. (True story.)