US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable

[Jexy]

Kasz216 said:

Jexy said:
I read that. But of course is MSNBC so why tell both sides of a story?

"School districts have said some of the USDA proposals go too far and cost too much when budgets are extremely tight. Schools have long taken broad instructions from the government on what they can serve in the federally subsidized meals that are given free or at reduced price to low-income children. But some schools have balked at government attempts to tell them exactly what foods they can't serve."

It's cheaper to serve them pizza than it is to get all the other vegetables every day. Schools can't afford the healthiest foods (ever go shopping for Kosher or health nut foods? It's twice as expensive to eat healthy) and they certainly can't afford the growing number of poor kids and illegals who are given free food. It's a sign of the times we live in and many other factors including lobbyists.

Besides, kids not exercising is by far and away the biggest reason for getting fat. And yeah, I do agree that it's ridiculous. Also, the pizza schools serve tastes like ass anyway, and I always dreaded Friday's because of it.

http://casualkitchen.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-too-expensive-to-eat-healthy-food.html

All it would take is empowering seasonal buying and some more simple on site cooking and you'd actually end up saving LOTS of money.

I mean shoot, I spend way more when I eat fast food then I do buy healthy food my girlfriend and i make at our house.

I like meat.  Meat is expensive.  I eat a lot during each meal, and about 4,500 calories a day, down far from when I was into athletics every day.  I'm also anosmic.  That means I cannot smell spices, therefore they rarely translate into much taste.  I'm not going to run on vegetables.   My body doesn't work that way.   And you've never eaten Kosher obviously... which means it HAS to have a K on it, which means its already double as expensive.  And even I don't eat Kosher specific anymore.  Just saying...

Also keep in mind, we aren't talking about one person, who if they had all the time in the world to cook and drive everywhere stuff was cheapest, they maybe could spend less.   Nevermind the fact that white bread at the store here is $0.80 a loaf, where as the healthy REAL wheat bread is $3.50 at the least.  We are talking about schools.  They buy in BULK from places that even Costco and Sams club would be considered small beans compared to many times for their meats, vegetables, etc.  On TOP of that, the government subsidizes them to make the costs even cheaper.  Keep in mind, if you're going through all that trouble preparing meals for one person to eat healthy, you'd have to pay the staff at every school to stay on for double the time and actually learn how to cook, as opposed to paying them minimum wage to take food out of a freezer and heat it up.  Not to mention there doesn't exist a place that schools can get the amount they need to feed the students from any regular grocery store and especially not smaller health food stores.  They wouldn't get the delivery either.  We aren't talking fast food cheap, which is actually expensive.  We are talking dirt cheap to free for many students.   Whole meals for $2.00 or less including drinks... not to mention, the child body actually NEEDS more than adult bodies as far as variety on the food table goes. 

I understand where you're coming from so don't worry there, but your option doesn't work for every individual, and it certainly won't work for any schools.  And obviously private schools can afford it because they don't take illegal immigrant children OR poor people since only wealthy people can afford private schools, which means they can pay for more expensive and healthier meals.