Trump makes changes to michelle obama's lunch

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I think Michelle Obama meant well, but it’s hard to get kids to eat healthy when they aren’t used to it. I remember dumping the fruit/veg and eating the slop when I was kid.
Part of the problem is that what we’ve assumed is healthy eating for the past couple of decades is actually not that healthy. The diet Michelle Obama wanted to impose was based on science about fat, and salt, and carbohydrates that is being proven wrong.
 
And when the schools are ok with the growing obesity epidemic, and police academies can’t find fit recruits – and our Armed Forces can’t find suitable soldiers because they’re all out of shape – that compromises national security. Courtesy of a president who has no concept whatsoever of exercise and physical fitness – at least Clinton gave up Big Macs, and Obama gave up smoking…what a SHAMEFUL example Trump is setting for our nation’s kids. Absolutely shameful.

I’m pretty sure there’s no obesity epidemic among the Radical Islamic terrorists who want to kill us. Nope, we’re #1 on that list. 😦
You need someone to hold your hand and tell you what to eat? Do they need to tell you to shut off your lap top and get some exercise? Try this little exercise for life, breathe in breathe out and repeat. There ya go, maybe one day you can leave the nest.
 
You need someone to hold your hand and tell you what to eat? Do they need to tell you to shut off your lap top and get some exercise? Try this little exercise for life, breathe in breathe out and repeat. There ya go, maybe one day you can leave the nest.
I’m assuming randomuser is an adult and not a child. Children do need all of the things you mentioned…you know, the population that Michelle Obama’s program was for.
 
I don’t know about you, but i don’t look toward the government to set the example for healthy eating and exercise routines. That responsibility falls squarely on me as the parent. I limit the amount of time in front of tv or tablets, I make my kids go outside and play (actually they do this most of the time themselves) and i choose what food to put in front of them at meal times. None of what i do in this regard has been influenced by unnecessary nanny state regulations. Kids aren’t obese because the president eats a big mac and has cake after meals. They are obese because their parents let them get that way.
👍 I,for one, am fed up with the government inserting itself into every facet of our lives. They are forcing these trivial things on us while we have much bigger problems to solve than what kids will or won’t eat.
 
I’m assuming randomuser is an adult and not a child. Children do need all of the things you mentioned…you know, the population that Michelle Obama’s program was for.
I was trying to be funny, but I’m musician not a comedian
 
In our public schools, and many if not most of the schools across the country, the “cooks” do not cook–they reheat big containers of precooked and frozen entrees.

Chicken nuggets were unheard of and pizza was a treat when school lunches were good. The idea of “little smokies” and a container of BBQ sauce served for lunch would have sent our school nutritionist into a swoon. All school districts had a nutritionist who usually was also the school’s home economics teacher. The cooks she hired could and did cook from scratch and bake too. The only concession she made was instant mashed potatoes, something I can’t eat to this day.
 
I grew up on school lunches and never had a weight problem. They were nutritious and warm lunches and were full meals. I looked forward to lunch everyday.

I think fast food and snack food (chips, soda, etc.) have more to do with our obesity
problem than school lunches! It is what they are eating after school Michelle should be
concentrating on.
You’re probably right.

For a time, and perhaps even now, the Obama lunch was a boon to the schools. They had vending machines in the school containing snack foods, and kids would load up on them.
 
In my area, the vending machines were removed so the kids couldn’t buy junk food.

The kids at Sharon Springs, KS posted a video on YouTube about how they were starving by the time school was out, they didn’t complain that the food was bad, just that it wasn’t enough, especially for athletes who had to practice after school without a snack. My daughter was a senior in '14 and she just packed her own lunch. They tried to inspect it once and I told them that unless they thought she was dealing drugs or running guns they had better things to do than look in her lunch box. Small school, rural town, school board doesn’t have enough money to back a law suit if they pressed it.
 
I grew up on school lunches and never had a weight problem. They were nutritious and warm lunches and were full meals. I looked forward to lunch everyday.

I think fast food and snack food (chips, soda, etc.) have more to do with our obesity
problem than school lunches! It is what they are eating after school Michelle should be
concentrating on.
Fast food and snack food WAS my lunch in grade and high school. I graduated high school before the year 2000.

Comparing to other nations, our lunches are pathetic… this is what our children are being given in the best case scenario, many areas, stones would be an improvement:
huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/school-lunches-around-the-world_n_6746164.html
 
My mom gave me a bologna sandwich to bring to school and I bought a container of milk with my “milk money”.
 
👍 I,for one, am fed up with the government inserting itself into every facet of our lives. They are forcing these trivial things on us while we have much bigger problems to solve than what kids will or won’t eat.
Respectfully, I see nothing “trivial” about maintaining our law enforcement agencies and our Armed Forces with only the most fit, most healthy, Americans. How is this not a national security issue? It’s kinda sorta important having healthy cops and healthy soldiers, no? 🤷
 
Respectfully, I see nothing “trivial” about maintaining our law enforcement agencies and our Armed Forces with only the most fit, most healthy, Americans. How is this not a national security issue? It’s kinda sorta important having healthy cops and healthy soldiers, no? 🤷
That’s quite a stretch.
 
Fast food and snack food WAS my lunch in grade and high school. I graduated high school before the year 2000.

Comparing to other nations, our lunches are pathetic… this is what our children are being given in the best case scenario, many areas, stones would be an improvement:
huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/school-lunches-around-the-world_n_6746164.html
I notice they didn’t show Mexico or Kenya, but it does look like some other countries are serving better lunches. But that was only one picture.
 
Respectfully, I see nothing “trivial” about maintaining our law enforcement agencies and our Armed Forces with only the most fit, most healthy, Americans. How is this not a national security issue? It’s kinda sorta important having healthy cops and healthy soldiers, no? 🤷
Where is the evidence the “Michelle Obama’s lunch” is a key component in “maintaining our law enforcement agencies and our Armed Forces with only the most fit, most healthy, Americans”? For that matter, what’s the evidence that Michelle Obama’s dietary advice is the basis for a healthy diet?
 
And when the schools are ok with the growing obesity epidemic, and police academies can’t find fit recruits – and our Armed Forces can’t find suitable soldiers because they’re all out of shape – that compromises national security. Courtesy of a president who has no concept whatsoever of exercise and physical fitness – at least Clinton gave up Big Macs, and Obama gave up smoking…what a SHAMEFUL example Trump is setting for our nation’s kids. Absolutely shameful.

I’m pretty sure there’s no obesity epidemic among the Radical Islamic terrorists who want to kill us. Nope, we’re #1 on that list. 😦
I worked in a school lunch program and the kids JUST DON"T eat it. So what good does it do !! They would rather go hungary. Can’t force it down them. And later they eat what they want. There has to be a better solution.
We need to start with parents, meals and companies that push junk food. God Bless, Memaw
 
My mom gave me a bologna sandwich to bring to school and I bought a container of milk with my “milk money”.
This is how my sister and I did it. Mom put chips in there and a Little Debbie snack too! Thank God for moms! I bought chocolate milk!
 
If the kids won’t eat healthy foods served by the schools, maybe the schools should stop offering lunches, especially in high schools.

And get rid of vending machines instead of using them as a profit maker.
 
My mom gave me a bologna sandwich to bring to school and I bought a container of milk with my “milk money”.
Similar experience at Catholic grade school with no cafeteria. Worst days were peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on Fridays (no meat in those days). I rooted for tuna. PB and Js were fine when FRESH … in the four hours between being made, wrapped and left to science while languishing in a brown bag in the cloakroom … the PBJ congealed and sucked the air out of the Wonder Bread … and the Jelly was no longer wet enough to suppress the occasional gag reflex.

A good Catholic would have “offered it up” … I just moaned and endured. 😉 But I was a CHOCOLATE milk kid. And in the official social structure that made all the difference. Privately we CMKids considered Milk only parents … bad (“It’s good for you”) power mad control freaks (though our vocab wasn’t so developed to put it that way). 😃

As a substitute teacher … one minitragedy I witnessed often was that vast parts of uneaten school lunches … even UNWRAPPED bags of nuts, trail mix etc. … got thrown out and wasted. Probably not Mrs. Obama’s intent at all – but kids are not force fed … and for some reason SCHOOL LUNCH/SNACK FOODS are not always recycled … or even ALLOWED to be!

Into the trash with assigned but uneaten fruit. Good for the most persistently active seagulls unafraid to raid the trashcans … but quite a waste IMO.

Reselling the unused, untouched portions to the 99 cent store would have been better on all accouts IMO. Or donating the same to homeless shelters. :confused:

Will read the article now and may comment upon IT soon. 😊
 
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