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Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) called on the U.S. Senate yesterday to pass the stalled renewal of the National School Lunch Program known as the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. Time is running out for the bill, with precious few working Senate days left before the election.
School lunch reform still alive—but in critical condition
Seeded on Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:05 PM EDT
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'School food remains alive but in critical condition. Now might be a good time to call your representative and urge him or her to act on the bill.'
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#1 - Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:19 PM EDTI think getting the individual schools and school boards to actually hire someone that knows how to cook for large groups vs opening cans and find the right balance on the menu's would also work..I do have to say the food has improved from when I went to school back in the day....
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#2 - Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:22 PM EDTNutrition is schools is SO important. We should see a dramatic decline in emotional, mental, and physical disorders saving billions in health care costs now and in the future. And who doesn't want a bright, healthy kid?
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yeahhh on account of some "moms" only know how to open cans, packages and fix hot dogs or hamburgers...sighhhhh don't even get me started on lunch meat...peanut butter and jelly sandwiches would be way better...
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#3 - Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:19 PM EDTI got an email from senator Lincoln on this subject and I told her exactly what I thought we need here in AR high schools - fresh fruit, maybe a salad bar as an option for lunch? I haven't seen any results there. They have however changed out all the sodas in the vending machines for diet sodas (still no juice or milk or other options)? My kid doesn't drink diet sodas and I wouldn't give one to most kids. But I see the direction they are going and it's not that good.
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#4 - Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:17 PM EDTsighhh the thing with salad bars are how do you keep the grubby hands out of stuff? and one time a foster child said she wouldn't eat it that day because one of the boys spit in the lettuce...ewww..anyway, if they could have individual salads to pick from that would work and did...after several moms mentioned the boys being icky which they are at that age anything to make get the girls to go yuck...(middle school) then it was brought up of course about the cost of the fresh individual salads...it all worked out in the end..the boys had to think of something else yucky to do to the girls sighhhh
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#5 - Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:59 PM EDTI wouldn't do it any younger than high school, but I know when I was a kid (70s and 80s) it was very popular. When I brought it up to my daughters friends they thought it was great.
It sounds like they were having a little bit of a discipline issue if kids are spitting in the food like that.
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naw, it was boys, they got in trouble but it did bring up the issue of a big bowl of lettuce being in the open so the individual ones got made ...worked it out they did
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