A colleague from long ago writes:
I just found out that the school my children attend has stopped the student council fundraising event for the Giving Tree. The event is a cookies and cocoa Christmas sale that allows the kids to have fun buying cookies for themselves and for other students, all in the spirit of the season, and all for the spirit of giving to children who may not have a very pleasant Christmas.
The reason? Wait for it…..wait for it…. It doesn’t meet Michelles limits on sugar in school foods.
So, no fundraiser for the elementary school, and pickles for the high school (why pickles, I don’t know. Why not carrots or Bok Choy?)
I’m hoping that some day parents will realize just how much we are being controlled. I remember when school was about reading, writing and arithmetic. Not any more.
Brown Rice is the new Sugar Cookie.
It’s worth noting that most pickles, except for kosher dills, also have a fair amount of sugar in them. Plus a huge amount of salt that our First Nutrition Nag might object to if she knew anything about how foods were made.
I gotta confess, though, that I’m (having been a cook from the tender age of six) something of a food snob, and one of the perils of being such is that you quickly find out that most kids really don’t know what to do with food that doesn’t come from a bag or a box. You can serve them pizza that has about 100x the flavor of Dominos (not a challenge for any decent cook), and they’ll just kind of look at it until someone else dares to try some. Same thing with cookies. They’ll wolf down anything by Keebler, but offer them something with real butter, real sugar, and the like, and they just kinda look at it, no matter how good it smells and looks.
(side note; my mom worked for Keebler, and couldn’t eat any of their cookies to the day she died because she remembered what those cookies had been at the beginning…..it was just too depressing)
(clarification; she worked for Keebler test kitchens, where they systematically removed the good ingredients to make the product stay well on shelves….ugh)
I’ll believe that we have an independent media when someone in the MSM questions MObama’s expertise in any field, much less what kids at public schools have for lunch. Her kids have attended private schools all of their lives.
Laura Bush was a public school librarian and she did some kind of low-key libraries and and reading gig. Why would anyone believe that MObama has any authority in nutrition at all? According to Wikipedia her undergrad degree is in sociology and black studies (of course). MObama was employed as a lawyer. No one has ever mentioned her cooking skills. Frankly she looks like the type who pours hot sauce and melted cheese on everything.
What did she do as lawyer? Did she ever represent a client before a judge? As far as I can tell she wrote reports and attended meetings.
Her expertise in nutrition is aptly shown by “MyPlate”, which basically ignores the fact that most of the foods Americans eat–sandwiches, burritos, pizza, pasta, and the like–do not fit well on it. However, 3000 calorie state dinners do go well there.
Except for the 3000 calorie bit. My mom was a dietician, and I’m still partial to the “4 food groups”. Mayo’s diet pyramid is good, too. MyPlate is garbage, and the FedGov’s food pyramid is second worst.