Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with "Cafeteria Nuggets"...

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Article Originally Appeared in Carolina Journal via carolinajournal.com

Written By Sara Burrows

A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.

The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.

The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs — including in-home day care centers — to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.

When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones.

The girl’s mother — who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation — said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a “healthy lunch” would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.

“I don’t feel that I should pay for a cafeteria lunch when I provide lunch for her from home,” the mother wrote in a complaint to her state representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson County.

The girl’s grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite, picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread and is not big on vegetables.

“What got me so mad is, number one, don’t tell my kid I’m not packing her lunch box properly,” the girl’s mother told CJ. “I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn’t really care for vegetables.”

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

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Here's how to add nutrition to liberal lunches.

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http://www.mrconservative.com/2012/...memade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria-nuggets/

Article Originally Appeared in Carolina Journal via carolinajournal.com

Written By Sara Burrows

A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.

The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.

The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs — including in-home day care centers — to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.

When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones.

The girl’s mother — who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation — said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a “healthy lunch” would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.

“I don’t feel that I should pay for a cafeteria lunch when I provide lunch for her from home,” the mother wrote in a complaint to her state representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson County.

The girl’s grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite, picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread and is not big on vegetables.

“What got me so mad is, number one, don’t tell my kid I’m not packing her lunch box properly,” the girl’s mother told CJ. “I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn’t really care for vegetables.”

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

More at link...
Disturbing to see what happens when the wrong First Lady is unleashed on America's children.
 
Let the kid get fat, it's her parents choice and later, her choice, the government can make a healthy choice available that's fine, stupid but fine but this is on part with forcing children to wear sunblock to avoid sunburn. A message to the kiddy care government, go do something useful, i know it's a novel concept.
 
This is a good lesson in unintended consequences. They believed that making this stupid law would make it so that kids ate more nutritious meals, however what it actually does is replace it with something the kid won't eat. They eat less, thus less nutritious meals.

From a turkey/cheese sandwich, chips, fruit, and a drink to three chicken nuggets.

Now, these people are following a law passed by some idiot who had good intentions, but no brain. Clearly somebody who never had children and who believes that parents cannot possibly be the best people to understand their child. They tried a one-size fits all solution based on the lowest common denominator and probably still believe, even with this, that they really have done some good.
 
This is a good lesson in unintended consequences. They believed that making this stupid law would make it so that kids ate more nutritious meals, however what it actually does is replace it with something the kid won't eat. They eat less, thus less nutritious meals.

From a turkey/cheese sandwich, chips, fruit, and a drink to three chicken nuggets.

Now, these people are following a law passed by some idiot who had good intentions, but no brain. Clearly somebody who never had children and who believes that parents cannot possibly be the best people to understand their child. They tried a one-size fits all solution based on the lowest common denominator and probably still believe, even with this, that they really have done some good.


Actually, this is a good lesson in hiring competent people and training them properly. There was nothing wrong with the lunch in the first instance, and, if there was, the lunch should have been supplemented to make it fit the guidelines, and should not have been replaced entirely. Someone fucked up.
 
Actually, this is a good lesson in hiring competent people and training them properly. There was nothing wrong with the lunch in the first instance, and, if there was, the lunch should have been supplemented to make it fit the guidelines, and should not have been replaced entirely. Someone fucked up.

Probably a union contractor.
 
http://www.mrconservative.com/2012/...memade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria-nuggets/

Article Originally Appeared in Carolina Journal via carolinajournal.com

Written By Sara Burrows

A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.

The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.

The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs — including in-home day care centers — to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.

When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones.

The girl’s mother — who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation — said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a “healthy lunch” would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.

“I don’t feel that I should pay for a cafeteria lunch when I provide lunch for her from home,” the mother wrote in a complaint to her state representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson County.

The girl’s grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite, picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread and is not big on vegetables.

“What got me so mad is, number one, don’t tell my kid I’m not packing her lunch box properly,” the girl’s mother told CJ. “I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn’t really care for vegetables.”

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

More at link...

I think the school misunderstands what is contained in paragraph 3. Home provided lunches are not required to do the same, by omission of requirement. What's funny is that the lunch provided did meet the requirement, since two (veg/fruit) servings were included.
 
Actually, this is a good lesson in hiring competent people and training them properly. There was nothing wrong with the lunch in the first instance, and, if there was, the lunch should have been supplemented to make it fit the guidelines, and should not have been replaced entirely. Someone fucked up.

Nothing was replaced...the little girl justy didn't eat the luch her mother packed.

From damo's article:

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her,”
 
Nothing was replaced...the little girl justy didn't eat the luch her mother packed.

From damo's article:

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her,”

No one should have put a lunch 'in front of her' that wasn't ordered by the parent. This isn't USSR or Nazi Germany. We shouldn't be separating parents from their children for the good of the state.
 
No one should have put a lunch 'in front of her' that wasn't ordered by the parent.


Take it up with those in charge of school lunches in North Carolina...


This isn't USSR or Nazi Germany. We shouldn't be separating parents from their children for the good of the state.


You lost me on this one...has someone taken that little girl away from her mother because of this?
 
Nothing was replaced...the little girl justy didn't eat the luch her mother packed.

From damo's article:

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her,”


Apparently, the way it's supposed to work is that the home lunch is supplemented. So if there is no dairy, they give the child a milk. They aren't supposed to give the child a whole 'nother lunch.

If you think things like this are reasonable, and I do, you need to stop people from doing stupid shit that undermines the regulations, like giving a kid a whole new lunch and sending the bill to the parents.
 
Nothing was replaced...the little girl justy didn't eat the luch her mother packed.

From damo's article:

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her,”

Reading comprehension issues. The lunch was replaced with a cafeteria lunch which the child didn't eat but met the "requirements" of this stupid law.
 
Apparently, the way it's supposed to work is that the home lunch is supplemented. So if there is no dairy, they give the child a milk. They aren't supposed to give the child a whole 'nother lunch.

If you think things like this are reasonable, and I do, you need to stop people from doing stupid shit that undermines the regulations, like giving a kid a whole new lunch and sending the bill to the parents.

Or we can assume that the parent understands the child better than the people who wrote the stupid law and allow them to pack a reasonable lunch according to what the child will actually eat rather than overriding parents based on a well intentioned but nonsense feel good law establishing the government as the sole knowledge and nutritional benefactor of the child. The government screwed up in many ways, the first was making the stupid law.

Land of the free my ass.
 
Or we can assume that the parent understands the child better than the people who wrote the stupid law and allow them to pack a reasonable lunch according to what the child will actually eat rather than overriding parents based on a well intentioned but nonsense feel good law establishing the government as the sole knowledge and nutritional benefactor of the child. The government screwed up in many ways, the first was making the stupid law.

Land of the free my ass.


Damo, I'm sure you're a good parent and that you ensure that your kids get proper nutrition by packing such wonderfully nutritious and yummy lunches that your children are the envy of the cafeteria. But not all parents are as wonderful as you. Some are downright shitty. The children of shitty parents shouldn't suffer because the idea of the government ensuring that they get at least one decent meal five days a week offends your fucked up notion of what it means to be "free."
 
Damo, I'm sure you're a good parent and that you ensure that your kids get proper nutrition by packing such wonderfully nutritious and yummy lunches that your children are the envy of the cafeteria. But not all parents are as wonderful as you. Some are downright shitty. The children of shitty parents shouldn't suffer because the idea of the government ensuring that they get at least one decent meal five days a week offends your fucked up notion of what it means to be "free."

As I said, government interference based on the lowest common denominator that unintentionally makes it so children actually eat less nutritiously.... It is well intentioned feel good law based on the lowest common denominator. You must dance in these steps or we will take over and parent your child for you...

If you think that level of minutiae is the proper place for government, then there is no way to reason with you. We are obviously so far apart ideologically that there is no possible way we can find a common ground.

Which doesn't change that this is a flat stupid law with obvious unintended consequences.
 
Damo, I'm sure you're a good parent and that you ensure that your kids get proper nutrition by packing such wonderfully nutritious and yummy lunches that your children are the envy of the cafeteria. But not all parents are as wonderful as you. Some are downright shitty. The children of shitty parents shouldn't suffer because the idea of the government ensuring that they get at least one decent meal five days a week offends your fucked up notion of what it means to be "free."

What is really funny is your precious BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENTS idea of a 'healthy' lunch. Chicken nuggets ARE NOT FUCKING GOOD FOR YOU. Put the McDonalds crap down and step back to the turkey sandwich.
 
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