"Chicago School Bans Homemade Lunches"

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WTF?!?

For years all I could stand to eat at school were peanut butter sandwiches, when I could stand to eat at all.

What gives them the right to dictate what the students eat? This is unacceptable.

Oh dear, as a fussy eater myself, I always had my own food, and I didn't always eat that!

But, these "WTF" stories are starting to become commonplace, or is that just me paying more attention of late? In any case, there should be the choice.

Unfortunately, yes they are. Remember when San Francisco wanted to ban Happy Meal toys?

I shudder to think what might be next.

That's intrusion into the way parents want to raise their kids. If they feed their kids decent meals and make them turn off the xbox and be active part of the day then they wouldn't have a weight problem. In high school I bought 2 donuts at break from the ongoing fundraiser, then at lunch I had a giant pretzel, usually a rice krispy treat, and a sprite and I burnt it all off because I was in marching band and rode my bike up a local small mountain and back (about 17 miles round trip). I would starve before eating that, and in elementary school I frequently did starve rather than eat a lot of things. If they want kids to be more fit, don't sell soda and ration sweets and organize sports during lunch.

Hey Government, stay the f**k outta this.

It does seem excessive. Especially considering how bad school lunches can be. When I was a kid the lunches were so bad at my school that I would throw them away and I survived on two cartons of milk for every day for lunch. I did lose weight, so maybe that's what the schools are aiming for. If the kids don't each lunch then they won't be obese. <sarcasm>

They should let the kids eat whatever they want and then make the fat kids chase around the teacher who is the fastest runner wearing a flag football belt with twinkies tied to it.

Typical scumbag authoritarian control-freaks. What a child eats for his dinner is a matter for the parent.

QFT

I'm pretty sure what my mother packed was more healthy than the school lunches. I usually got a bologne sandwich, a bag of chips or crackers, bag of cookies, and a juice box, or if I had a thermose, nonfat milk.

The school at the time usually had pizza (far more fat, calories and cholesterol than my bologne sandwich), tater-tots (yes, those fried, frozen and re-baked breaded potatoes), and carrots (so high on the glycemic index that diabetics aren't supposed to eat them). Along with low fat chocolate milk (230 calories and 9 grams of fat).

Sometimes they would replace the carrots with apple sauce or the pizza with spaghetti or nachos.

Personally I think they should just have nutrition classes for the children and parents. I was fortunate enough to come from a nutrition aware family but there are those out there who really have no concept of healthy and not.

It's excessive, but I see the logic behind it. For those of you unfamiliar with Chicago, Little Village is a low income neighborhood on the West side. People who don't have money tend to buy junk food because it's cheaper. There is a massive obesity problem in low income neighborhoods as a result. The intentions were honorable, but if there was a way to make healthy food cheap and junk food expensive, that would be the real solution. I'm all for supporting urban farming and organic markets, but the allure of cheetos and crap like that is strong for kids who were raised on that junk. The obesity problem can also be solved just by educating people, because I see ignorant mothers feeding mountain dew and doritos to their babies.

Basically the smarter way to prevent obesity is through education and encouragement of organic farming. Mandating that kids eat school lunches (who even knows what's in those) is a terrible idea.

what happens if the parent is ignorant? Kids are unhealthy, so something needs to be done because they are essentially the victims. The government is just going about it all wrong.

OH MY GOSH!
You are brilliant!! !! !!
Thank you, sorry, I was seriously pissed off about this, and I just got the idea to post that article to here and you already had it here....thank you, awesome person.

Anyways, this REALLY infuriates me because
*I became vegetarian when I was in elementary school (of my own volition)
*It is unconstitutional, those that can't eat things for religious reasons are having laws made against them
*Picky eaters (like myself) are sometimes autistic, so this is just another way for more of us to get in trouble.

Feel EXACTLY the same way!

If that were to happen to me I would probably sneak food in or just kick them and run (though kick wouldn't solve anything it would be fun).


I mean I don't care if they want to ban certain foods (even though that is stupid), but banning ANY CHOICE!! !! !
That enrages me, I want to go there and eat the head off of whoever thought of this.....and I'm almost vegan!! !! !!


It is a intrusion into parenting, but it is also an intrusion into lifestyle as I already mentioned.


If you look the picture it is
White bread (loaded with artificial crap, little to no nutritional benefits and only there because it is cheap)
Hot dog(the scrap meat, and something a vegetarian would not want to eat, not to mention unhealthy)
Tater Tots (probably fried in animal fat and frozen, so any goodness that was in the potatoes....gone)
Canned peaches (probably laced with additives and stored for so long that the nutrients started to seep out)
Strawberry milk (are you kidding me?! Additives galore, not to mention globs of processed sugar)
....the only saving grace is a carrot, which is healthy, don't get me wrong, but really, that is the only good thing they get every day???? Really?


There is something to be said about this.
I am a runner, I was on cross-country for 4 years, know why I didn't make varsity(the fastest of the runners)?
*seniority rule
*pressure at the wrong times
*too many people (there were 100 kids on our team last year!! !)

Anyone who runs a certain amount of miles should be allowed to eat what they want!
I mean, I'm not the fastest runner, but you wanna challenge me to a half-marathon (I'm training for a full right now) and I'll whip most people around that course!! !
Additionally, anyone who fulfills any type of exercise requirement should be able to choose, like an incentive.

If they want to control everything, they are going to have to factor everything.
I mean it may be but that doesn't mean EVERYONE who lives there acts and spends that way.
And to exert such a force on an entire population, you have to consider ALL the factors!! !

Finally, they better not start applying this to other schools, I don't care if I am college at the time, I just keep thinking: what if that could have been me? And I start becoming angry again!! !

It is getting pretty ridiculous. My sister's a first grader and this year they stopped allowing parents to pack snacks for their children. They have to pay for a school snack instead. I have a few problems with that.

1.) Allergies!
2.) Some kids (like my sister) are picky and will go hungry rather than eat something "weird". My sister only eats fruit for snack. And only certain kinds of fruit. This causes a problem.
3.) For some odd reason...they only have snacks 2 days a week...as if kids only get hungry around that time twice a week.
4.) THE SNACK PROVIDED ISN'T HEALTHY! This is just a way to get MONEY!

Oh, and i forgot to mention what I eat every day, which I think is ALMOST the perfect lunch.

Apple
Serving size of pure raisins.
Fiber one bar (which I know have some preservatives in it, but it is the best way for me to get protein and fiber in at lunch)
Chips (lays, which contains, 150 calories, potatoes, corn oil, sunflower oil, salt....those are the ingredients)

Oh, and I used to eat a sandwich(wheat bread) with nutella (few ingredients), but I stopped eating yeast.

I am not saying that I am perfect, but at least mine fills nutritional needs, satisfies hunger, tastes good, and is something I THOUGHT OF, NOT A STUPID, ret*d, IDIOTIC SCHOOL!! !!

Did I mention I was mad about this issue, but still feel free to reply, I want to see yo come up with a better argument!

See if you can get your parents to hire a lawyer to send them a cease and desist letter.