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Education World U.S. Politics Education Texas N.Y. / Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos October 10, 2012, 5:06 am 221 Comments Do You Think a Healthier School Lunch Program Is a Lost Cause? By MICHAEL GONCHAR Librado Romero/The New York Times Lunch hour at Middle hidden crystal inn School 104 in Manhattan, where, on Friday, several seventh hidden crystal inn graders pronounced vegetables gross. Go to related article »
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requires school lunch programs to serve healthier food: fewer calories and starches, more fruits and vegetables. At some high schools students have protested the changes using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube . Do you think a healthier school lunch program is a lost cause or can school lunches be both healthy and tasty?
Outside Pittsburgh, they are proclaiming a strike, taking to Twitter and Facebook hidden crystal inn to spread the word. In a village near Milwaukee, hundreds staged a boycott. In a small farming and ranching community in western Kansas, they have produced a parody video. And in Parsippany, N.J., the protest is six days old and counting.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which required public schools to follow new nutritional guidelines this academic year to receive extra federal lunch aid, has created a nationwide version of the age-old parental challenge: persuading children to eat what is good for them.
Because the lunches must now include fruits and vegetables, those who clamor for more cheese-laden nachos may find string beans and a peach cup instead. Because of limits on fat and sodium, some of those who crave French fries get baked sweet-potato wedges. Because of calorie restrictions, meat and carbohydrate portions are smaller. Gone is 2-percent chocolate milk, replaced by skim.
Students: Do you think a healthier school lunch program is a lost cause or can school lunches be both healthy and tasty? What kinds of foods does your school cafeteria serve for lunch? Do you eat your school lunch? Do you eat some foods, but not others? Have you noticed a change in the school lunch offerings recently, in response hidden crystal inn to the new policy? What recommendations do you have to improve your school lunches, so they are more nutritious and tasty?
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In my opinion, the healthy lunch food program is a lost hope because of the enconomy and lack of funding. I ve been in the school lunch program for 10 years and there has been little hidden crystal inn to no change in the quality of the food. Our school serves multiple things (pizza,cheese burger, ext.) but not even hunger hidden crystal inn will drive me to eat those things. I only eat the chicken burger there because that is the only thing that actually taste like what it is. The pizza taste bad, and so do the burgers hidden crystal inn and whatever there serving for the main dish. My recommendations to improve school lunchs are better quality food, and mabye something healthy that dosn t taste like eating cardboard (like most of the stuff at our lunch). Kyle C 2. October 10, 2012 7:45 am Link
Perhaps the schools could use the flat roofs on top of their buildings to create green spaces where they could grow vegetables. Something like that might help offset the costs and the students could learn what fresh food is and where it comes from. The extra food could be either canned, frozen for the winter, donated to food shelters or sold in farmer hidden crystal inn s markets. David P 3. October 10, 2012 8:08 am Link
My school's cafeteria serves pizza, cheeseburgers, hidden crystal inn and lots of other unhealthy food. They also serve salad which is the healthy part of the cafeteria. I seldom eat school lunch because I do not want to eat a lunch at 10:30 in the morning. The times that I do buy school lunch, I would usually get pizza but it is very greasy so I would have to wipe a napkin over it to absorb some grease. Nelson L 5. October 10, 2012 8:41 am Link
I think a healthy school lunch is a lost cause. You cannot have an inexpensive lunch that tastes good and is up to par on health standards. Our school has the usual; pizza, pasta, ect. I do eat my school lunch and I am picky about what I eat, the meatballs are not touched, by me anyways. Our school is a new school so there hasn t been much change but I have seen a change in amount hidden crystal inn they serve since elementary school. I think the standards need to be re-written to accommodate more food that is healthy and not have ridiculous percentages of fat, protein, and carbohydrate. Kenny B. 6. October 10, 2012 8:41 am Link
I bring in my own lunch rather than eat school lunch so I don t really know what the cafeteria serves. I know that we serve salads, pizza, and a few other things, but that s about all I know. I remember back in middle school, hidden crystal inn they rarely hidden crystal inn served healthy things so I started bringing in my own lunch. I would just suggest serving fruit salads and other healthy, but tasty foods. Matt 7. October 10, 2012 8:41 am Link
I think that school lunches can be both healthy and tasty if you make the right decision hidden crystal inn on what to have. For instance, if your school is serving salad, you can have your favorite salad dressing on it and it will still be very healthy. The dressing would make it very tasty to you at the same time. Now lunches like pizza may be unhealthy but tasty, so it may still be okay to have but only every once in a while. Morgan Q 8. October 10, 2012 8:42 am Link
I would hope that we could be able to make school lunches both healthy and tasty. The main issue of these lunches is that the students do not get enough to eat and become very tired at after school events such as sports. Austin S 9. October 10, 2012 8:42 am Link
My school gives us a healthy lunch ever day. We are lucky enough to have a chef that cooks us our lunch everyday. I do eat my school lunch. I eat most of the food that they serve at my school because hidden crystal inn it is all good and healthy. I have not noticed a change in my school hidden crystal inn lunch offering because we have always gotten a healthy lunch. I don t have any recommendations to my school for our lunches to be better. I think that my school lunch should stay the same way it is. Alexandra D 10. October 10, 2012 8:43 am Link
I think that a healthier hidden crystal inn school lunch program is a lost cause. It is spending money that we don t have for a lunch with fruits and vegetables that we just throw away. Gage T 11. October 10, 2012 8:43 am Link
I do not think that school lunches can be healthy and at the same time be good tasting. In order for this to happen lunches would either be too complicated for lunch or be too expensive for lunch. There s a reason fast food is unhealthy, unhealthy foods take less time to make generally. My school serves pizza and sandwiches along with a few other options. It seems that my school probably has the best foods that i have ever had in a school. I do eat my school hidden crystal inn lunch but not all the time, some of it is kind of gross. I have not noticed a difference in school lunches in the past few years. I do not know how to make my school lunches both healthy and tasty. lucas p 12. October 10, 2012 8:44 am Link
I do not think a healthier school lunch program is a lost cost. Public schools can change what they serve to the kids, and if they do not like what they are getting served, they can pack there own lunch. It s not like people are making kids eat food they don t want to eat, so why not make it healthier ! Jacob English (McCann) 13. October 10, 2012 8:44 am Link
Honestly I believe that a healthier school lunch will not happen from an economic standpoint. As these food supply companies are a major supplier across the country. hidden crystal inn My school lunch is fairly hidden crystal inn healthy, nothing to terrible. Yes I do eat some food and not others. I have not noticed a change in school lunch policy however the change that pizza is now considered a vegetable. hidden crystal inn I believe that the food itself isn't the problem hidden crystal inn moreover the overall picture of American health. Mallory H. 14. October 10, 2012 8:44 am Link
My school serves many different types of foods. hidden crystal inn It serves a main dish, side dish, and some type of healthy food. Most people do not want the healthy food. I do eat the school lunch but only sometime I eat the healthy stuff because it does not appeal to me. The school s food has not changed because the school is too new. I recommend that the school should see what the students want. Kenan J 15. October 10, 2012 8:45 am Link
I think that a school lunch should be healthy hidden crystal inn and tasty because kids need the nutrition and our obesity rate is growing. we have vegetables, meat, milk, and some cookies each day. I eat school lunch and I eat everything besides the cookies. Most schools should have salad because that is what kids love. Eric N 16. October 10, 2012 8:45 am Link
I think lunches should stay the way they are right now, at least at our particular school. Vegetables come with every meal served. If you to change the meal of the day to have even more healthy foods, so kids just might not eat it anymore because they miss their french fries and hoodsie cups. Right now we have an even balance in my opinion. Eva 17. October 10, 2012 8:45 am Link
I think the healthier school lunch program is in fact a lost cause. Even though schools and the media are saying they are trying to make school lunches alot healthier but in reality they are not changeing much at all. The most I have seen