Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight

[Veho Nex]

2.25$ for a lunch, thats more than I'd spend in a week on lunch. (Mostly cause I used to go without)

I think this school just wants to make money off its students.

[drone]

2.25$ for a lunch, thats more than I'd spend in a week on lunch. (Mostly cause I used to go without)

I think this school just wants to make money off its students.

[Louis VI the Fat]

$2,25.
In France they charge you that much to look at a lunch menu.

America is dirt cheap, especially food, but still... Nowhere in Europe, not even in countries without much culinary priorities is food that cheap. So little money, for such an improvement in quality of life.

Get your priorities right! Buy a smaller car. These will get your children to school just as fast, and you will have saved enough money on gasoline to spend on a proper lunch for them.

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Dang it, why won't the world listen and live like Frenchmen already, like the entire world is supposed to do, save for a few tribes we'll keep for nostalgia's sake.


They're mad these Americans, they're mad!

Here's what an average school lunch menu looks like, nothing fancy, just the bare necessities that any eight year old is entitled to:

[Shibumi]

Louis, that is not fair, any food sounds good in French.

[Strike For The South]

here is what I was served

and back in my day it cst 1.50

http://www.neisd.net/foodserv/pdf/ElemMenuApr2011.pdf

I <3 pizza thrusday

[Louis VI the Fat]

here is what I was served

and back in my day it cst 1.50

http://www.neisd.net/foodserv/pdf/ElemMenuApr2011.pdf

I <3 pizza thrusday

Pizza! Yummie! That menu looks good.

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that French school menu looks like a Michelin star meal compared to what I ate in school! Maybe it's just the way it's formatted. The only cheese we ever got was American "cheese."

You must teach children to appreciate cheese! How else will they understand the fine things in life if not taught at a young age?


Cheese lesson at school, nothing fancy or elaborate, just a few simple selections for the youngest students:

[Crazed Rabbit]

School lunches are why I ate homemade PB&J for a majority of my school meals for over a decade.

Given how horrible our government is at determining what food is healthy, it's no safe bet that a "healthy" school lunch is actually healthy. Just get rid of the soda and candy machines.

In brief, I agree with ACIN and Beirut. Also, I must further admire Beirut's plan with the note.

Louis - please tell me that picture is of some rare occurrence where some millionaire paid to have a cheese tasting sampled for those kids or something.

CR

[Ice]

School lunches are why I ate homemade PB&J for a majority of my school meals for over a decade.

Given how horrible our government is at determining what food is healthy, it's no safe bet that a "healthy" school lunch is actually healthy. Just get rid of the soda and candy machines.


CR

Yup. Kids are rather ignorant or simply don't care about their health at that age. I remember being stupid and drinking a code red mountain dew every day at 8:30 in the morning after advanced gym simply because everyone did and I didn't know any better. Kind of counter productive, eh?

That being said, schools should focus on what CR said, and removing blatantly unhealthy stuff like fried chicken and pizza from their menu. Telling parents what they can feed their kids for lunch reminds me of something I'd say in North Korea or some other dictatorship.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Yup. Kids are rather ignorant or simply don't care about their health at that age. I remember being stupid and drinking a code red mountain dew every day at 8:30 in the morning after advanced gym simply because everyone did and I didn't know any better. Kind of counter productive, eh?

That being said, schools should focus on what CR said, and removing blatantly unhealthy stuff like fried chicken and pizza from their menu. Telling parents what they can feed their kids for lunch reminds me of something I'd say in North Korea or some other dictatorship.

Yes, and we've all seen documentaries that show the tragic consequences of the failing North Korean dictatorship, such as a generation of children growing up grossly malnutritioned.

[Strike For The South]

School lunches are why I ate homemade PB&J for a majority of my school meals for over a decade.

Given how horrible our government is at determining what food is healthy, it's no safe bet that a "healthy" school lunch is actually healthy. Just get rid of the soda and candy machines.

In brief, I agree with ACIN and Beirut. Also, I must further admire Beirut's plan with the note.

Louis - please tell me that picture is of some rare occurrence where some millionaire paid to have a cheese tasting sampled for those kids or something.

CR

Americans heard that they had to reduce their intake of saturated fat by cutting back on meat and dairy products and replacing them with carbohydrates. Americans dutifully complied. Since then, obesity has increased sharply, and the progress that the country has made against heart disease has largely come from medical breakthroughs like statin drugs, which lower cholesterol, and more effective medications to control blood pressure.

Wait, Who here has said this before

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O wait
It was me