Opting out of the Mooch Menu

2013_07 05 Kids cheer NOT having to eat Mooch Food

Source:
http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2013/07/05/kids-cheer-as-school-district-opts-out-of-michelle-obamas-lunch-menu-n1633271

H/t Pistol Pete

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4 responses to “Opting out of the Mooch Menu

  1. GP's avatar GP

    Why do we even have this program? Back in the day, we made our own lunches, or if we were lucky our parents did.
    Turns out PBJ was not all that bad, except of course for the white bread, but even the bread back then was a bit healthier, before all the flour became bromated.
    Schools need to get out of the lunch biz and back to concentrating on the teaching.

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    • I carried my own lunch to school every day, and so did everyone else way back then in the dark ages. Students and their parents decided what was an appropriate diet — not school boards, not the federal government, not some intergalactic department of child nutrition, and sure as hell not the FLOTUS. Interestingly, almost no child was overweight back then; however, that might have had less to do with what we had for lunch and more to do with the fact that school buses were only for kids who lived way out in the country. Most of us lived within fairly easy walking or biking distance of school (back then we had neighborhood schools), and that’s how we got there.

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  2. Noni's avatar Noni

    I got PBJ on whole wheat. 🙂

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