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NiKKoM said:

Am I like from the only country in the world where we don't have warm school lunches?

we have sandwiches during lunch...  made by mom..



Yup. Even the North Koreans get tasty warm food.



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Kantor said:
richardhutnik said:
Kantor said:
HappySqurriel said:
This is what you get when you have bureaucrats deciding what a "healthy" meal is ...

Someone who actually had a clue what they were doing would have taken kids 10 (or 20) favorite foods and modified them so that they were healthier. It is far easier to get a kid to eat a healthy pizza or taco than it is to get them to eat hummus or bean salad.

That's a fair point.

Some people in this thread want to entrust decisions on healthy eating to the people who declared pizza a vegetable.

You mean Republican congressmen who passed legistlation under the influence of the food industry?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pizza-is-a-vegetable

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/pizza-vegetable-school-lunches-lobbyists_n_1098029.html

I mean Congress.

Have you ever known me to be a Republican, Richard? I'm libertarian, and that means I dislike them as much as I do the Democrats.

What I stated was what had happened.  It was a comment on the situation, in greater detail.  It wasn't in reference to yourself.



WiiBox3 said:
KungKras said:
People are not used to eating vegetables at home? So many people that it actually makes the news, and they can't even eat it if nothing else is availible?

No wonder america has an obesity problem.

How does it work in american schools, do they pay for the food or is it free?


Depends on your families income. If you are a low income family, breakfast and lunch is free. If you don't meet whatever the guideline is for low income your family can pay for school lunches (Not sure about now, but when I was in school in the late80s-90s it was about $2 per lunch, also not sure if it is different from state to state). You could also choose to bring your own lunch instead, which I did until I was in 4th grade.

School lunches sucked until I was in Jr. High. We almost never got fresh veggies. For our fruit/veggie we would usually get one of the following: Dried Figs, canned corn, canned green beans, canned peas, tator tots, mashed potatoes. Then for the main course we would get chicken nuggets, rubbery pizza, cold gross spaghetti, hard grilled cheese sandwiches, a hamburger, weenier wrap, or chefs choice (Usually something that was left over). You didn't get a choice, they had one set a day. Your only choice was your drink which was Milk, Chocolate Milk, Apple Juice, or Orange Juice. The Juices were only meant for the kids that were lactose intolerant.

Later when I got to junior high we had choices for our main course which were much better (tasting not healthier). We also had a vendor in the cafeteria that sold Cinnamon rolls, eclairs, Dominoes Pizza, instant ramen and other junk food. We also had Pepsi vending machines.

There wasn't really a healthy food choice for kids unless they brought it from home. And most school food already tasted bad, I starved myself on Pizza day and spaghetti day because it was so hard to eat, so I just started throwing it away. I am all for there being healthier food served in schools, if parents want to have their kids eat junk food, they can pack a lunch.

Man, that doesn't sound good at all xD

I'm not gonna pretend that the food I got was good either though xD. I think we have a law or something in Sweden that forces schools to serve some kind of vegetable or salad. In my school we usually got shredded carrots, peas, green salad with tomato and cucumber, and the like.

Our food is free for everyone as well.

The main dishes mostly sucked though, we  often got some disgusting version of pasta with meat sauce (that everybody but me seemed to like), bland soups, bland meat, bland meatloaf (rare), fishpudding, bland fish in bland sauce, falukorv (a sausage that is usually eaten in slices or oven baked whole, I'm probably being a traitor to my country, but I fucking hated falukorv). Some things were pretty good though, like when we got Chili con Carne, or Kalops (greek meat stew) or taco beefs. Some of the worse-tasting ones, like fish pudding, I can imagine were actually pretty healthy.

In high school, food was basically the same, except you got two main dishes to choose from (or mix into one, since everything is served like a buffet where I went to school) and there were more salad choices, as well the the choice to go eat in the city if you felt like it.



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KungKras said:
People are not used to eating vegetables at home? So many people that it actually makes the news, and they can't even eat it if nothing else is availible?

No wonder america has an obesity problem.

How does it work in american schools, do they pay for the food or is it free?


In the US things like chips, onion rings, and pizza are what they serve as vegetables. Their country is almost a lost cause when it comes to nutrition.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/11/18/pizza-school.html



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MrBubbles said:
i blame the dairy industry. do any of you actually realize how unhealthy milk is?


Maybe, but it is a good way for you to get calcium.



the2real4mafol said:
JayWood2010 said:
You know what the cause of obesity is in america? Being a lazy ass and over eating. I'm sorry but if you have a disease that causes obesity I understand but most people that are over-weight are just lazy and eat to much. Some people want to make excuses but I work a full--time job, full-time college student, have a social life, play games and sports, yet I can still workout out 3-6 times a week. Plus I eat correctly so in my opinion there is no excuse for being a big blob on a couch.

Yeah I agree with you completely. But because fast food is constantly advertised everywhere and is readily available quickly, no wonder people are fat. If they walked every where, it would not be so bad. As you say, people are just lazy nowadays

Yeah it really is sad.  I live in one of the most obese states and two things that really annoys me.  1 being every morning on my way to work I see a line at mcdonalds that is so long it actually blocks traffic on the road.  2 would be seing people make a salad and then put tons of dressing, bacon, pepperoni, cheese, croutons etc on it.  And they think it's healthy.  Might as well eat a big mac




       

no they shouldn't they're kids they know nothing about healthy food

and i think the schools should provide the healthiest meal for these kids and it has been proven that healthy promotes mental,emotional and physical growth and for the athletic kids who need more food i think they should get the quantity of food they need but that'll be an exception



For what it's worth, the food at my schools was awesome.

Wasn't very healthy though in most cases (Probably i dunno)

We'd get a main course item, Hamburger, Fried chicken, Pizza stuff like that. Then Either a small salad, Fruit juice, Milk or Chocolate Milk and a push pop or shortcake bar for desert.

I'd usually actually trade my desert for one of the fruit juice cups, because at the time i wasn't a fan of the push pops (too messy) or the shortcake bars.



Bring a packed lunch... that's what I do.

And I have noticed that our lunches have gotten crappier and crappier as the years go by.