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No Fuss Lunch is a mission for Ridgewood mom

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No Fuss Lunch is a mission for Ridgewood mom

OCTOBER 7, 2014    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY KARA YORIO
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

Amelie Wilday was coming home “weepy, cranky, tired and hungry,” according to her mother, Gaby. It was two years ago, halfway through the first month of first grade, and something was not right with the Ridgewood 6-year-old. Gaby Wilday, who had ordered Amelie’s lunch through the school’s food provider, asked her daughter to bring home what she wasn’t eating.”That’s when I noticed she just wasn’t eating,” said Wilday. Amelie didn’t like the food, and her mother didn’t like the quality. She also noticed the Wildays must not have been alone, as there were many lunches from outside food vendors being dropped off at Ridgewood schools.Already with a commercial kitchen for a sauce business, she decided to see if she could create a better school lunch model. She started with seven lunches, which she gave to a group of families for free in return for feedback. She ended up hearing from many more than those seven.

“By November 1st, I was getting emails from principals, PTO presidents, parents from other schools,” she said.

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Kids Reject Michelle Obama’s “Healthy” School Lunches

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Kids Reject Michelle Obama’s “Healthy” School Lunches
Tiffiny Ruegner
May 24, 2014

Michelle Obama’s new dietary restrictions is so bad that they can’t even GIVE the food away. A million kids have turned away from Obama’s school lunch and schools are feeling the huge hit.

Via The Hill:

More than a million kids confronted by healthier school lunches are turning up their noses, leaving the cafeteria and heading out to get a burger instead.

The difficulty in getting students to eat lower-fat, lower-sodium meals is at the center of a food fight between House Republicans and first lady Michelle Obama that erupted this week.

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, supported by President Obama, requires lunch programs that receive federal dollars to provide healthier meals. The new standards began to go into effect in 2012.  Childhood obesity has spiraled in recent decades, and the first lady has made the fight against it a signature issue. Democrats say stemming the epidemic will cut healthcare costs and keep the armed forces functioning.

But Agriculture Department statistics show the number of school children in the National School Lunch Program dropped from 31.8 million in 2011 to 30.7 million in 2013. School boards are asking Congress to allow schools to opt out. Some schools are raiding their teaching budgets to cover the costs of mounds of wasted fruits and vegetables, Lucy Gettman of the National School Boards Association said.

The dietary restrictions have not actually made the food healthier. They have cut down the amount of food to cut calories which has also cut nutrients to the growing generation. When a body doesn’t have enough nutrients… it craves food more. Give us 10 years and you will see this denying kids food will have exacerbated the obesity problem. What they really needed to do was increase the amount of fresh non packaged food and either increased the food cost or encouraged volunteers over paid employees in the cafeterias for food prep to balance the extra cost for quality food.

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Schools asking Congress to relax expensive and wasteful ‘healthy’ lunch regulations

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Schools asking Congress to relax expensive and wasteful ‘healthy’ lunch regulations
May 6, 2014
VICTOR SKINNER

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – School officials are asking Congress to relax new regulations on school lunches.

New “healthier” lunch standards promoted by First Lady Michelle Obama have been phased in to public schools over the last two years, and the reaction from students has been not so good. Initially, hungry students complained they weren’t receiving enough food, and the USDA in 2012 removed restrictions on maximums for protein and grains, theAssociated Press reports.

School lunch officials across the country have also complained about the increased cost of preparing the new meals, and lost revenue from students who refuse to purchase them. Some schools have even decided they’re better off dropping out of the federal lunch program altogether.

Now, school nutrition directors are urging Congress and the Agriculture Department to take it a step further and repeal some of the requirements that are driving up costs and driving away customers, the AP reports.

https://eagnews.org/schools-asking-congress-to-relax-expensive-and-wasteful-healthy-lunch-regulations/