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DEL.ICIO.USChanges coming for school meals. But when?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s been three years since the federal government issued its most up-to-date nutrition advice. And after a couple of years spent looking at how to work those guidelines into the school meals program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has called in Congress’s independent medical advisers to help.
What that means for children: Another two years before the department is likely to issue official rules to schools about how to change their menus. In the meantime, the department is encouraging schools to start following them, as much as possible, within current rules. (Here’s the memo, with suggested changes.)
Among the thing they’re suggesting: children should be able to pick both a fruit and a vegetable at lunch, choose from milk with a fat content no higher than 1 percent and select foods that are high in whole grains.
What do you think of the nutrition quality of the foods served at your child’s school? Have you seen changes in recent years to make meals more nutritious? How do you think some of these recommendations will go over with children? With school meals administrators?
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February 12, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
He!!, let’s start with edible food. Most school lunch rooms serve mess I wouldn’t feed the dog!!! And once you get to the high school level, the only thing edible is on the cafe line, which means it will cost regardless of whether your child gets free lunch or not! School lunches suck………….and our ignorant government thinks we should pay for this mess!!! I think not!!!!