Current Events > My wife is a teacher. I can't believe school food isn't a bigger issue

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She brought me home the breakfast her 7 year olds eat

Milk

pre packaged jelly sandwich

Fruit cup in syrup

Cookie

Cheese stick

A normal 7 year old needs 1600cal/day to maintain their weight and should not be eating added sugar. This breakfast is 1200 calories and has 50g of added sugar.

Wtf

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She probably teaches at a low income school

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Well you see, Michelle Obama tried to do something about this but Republicans cried about it for no reason.

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Needs more rectangle pizza

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a ... jelly sandwich? Just sugar on bread? Not even peanut butter for (cheap) protein? goodness, that IS awful.

and wtf at cookies for breakfast

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that breakfast is not 1200 calories

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Even if that breakfast was 1200 calories it likely wouldn't be their only meal.

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Well you see, Michelle Obama tried to do something about this but Republicans cried about it for no reason.

They got mad that she wanted to serve kids more veggies. These cretins are the definition of pure malice.

Jelly without the peanut butter is fucking sad.

Yes, I understand why it's omitted but still...
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The Obama administration tried to fix that but people freaked out and thought they were starving the children or w.e.

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They were

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Well you see, Michelle Obama tried to do something about this but Republicans cried about it for no reason.

This

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its one part basing the meal off the assumption that anyone coming to school early enough to eat breakfast is probably not getting fed at home, and one part working with a shoestring budget since they're constantly shafted by republicans upset over diet reforms...

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billcom6 posted...

that breakfast is not 1200 calories

Jelly sandwich: 600
Milk: 200
Cheese stick: 100
Fruit cup: 100
Cookie: 200

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The calories are listed on each one

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Irony posted...

Even if that breakfast was 1200 calories it likely wouldn't be their only meal.

Yes that's my point... Children are eating 3000+ cal/day

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It was how they were approaching it. I remember Jamie Olivers campaign being absolutely slaughtered by schools. They made no effort into showing how stuff could be, rather just focusing on "eat more vegetables", "eat healthier foods". Even I have started eating more salads recently, after learning how good they can taste with the right stuff in them. You can't just hand a kid some celery sticks and expect him to eat it, if all he has known is crap food.

You start small and work your way up. The major issue with these people is that they are going straight for the jugular rather than injecting some good food into the system and building it up slowly.

Jamie Oliver immediately got the UK government to ban Soda and Candy from schools. Do you know what that does to kids who are addicted to that stuff and love that stuff? It makes them go mental and try to get it another way. There was one kid I think he was on the Steve Harvey show, or one of those shows, where he made tens of thousands of dollars selling sweets after his school banned them all.

Start small, introduce a system similar to how Costco introduces new items. Give samples to those coming into the lunch room, or go to their individual classrooms just before lunch to offer samples, and get kids to taste the stuff before it becomes a regular thing. Bend their will before you break their will.

The crazy part is the US spends more on education per student than any other country in the world but the end product is not very good (mediocre food and facilities, test scores well below other developed nations, etc.). At least when they get hosed on the insane costs of healthcare Americans can say the end product is among the best in the world. With education it's just a disaster. At least they learn to worship flags, important life skill.

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Njolk posted...

Jelly sandwich: 600
Milk: 200
Cheese stick: 100
Fruit cup: 100
Cookie: 200

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The calories are listed on each one

The fuck kinda jelly sandwich has 600 calories

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monkeysRfunny posted...

The fuck kinda jelly sandwich has 600 calories

Smuckers uncrustables

I guess it has peanut butter too

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I remember when my school tried being healthier and it made everything taste worse

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Njolk posted...

Smuckers uncrustables

I guess it has peanut butter too

I wish I had Uncrustables at school :<

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what if the kids didn't eat all of it, allowing them to have a healthy amount of total calories?

ssjevot posted...

The crazy part is the US spends more on education per student than any other country in the world but the end product is not very good (mediocre food and facilities, test scores well below other developed nations, etc.). At least when they get hosed on the insane costs of healthcare Americans can say the end product is among the best in the world. With education it's just a disaster. At least they learn to worship flags, important life skill.

It doesn't though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_on_education_(%25_of_GDP)
Also not the best health care either...
https://ceoworld.biz/2021/04/27/revealed-countries-with-the-best-health-care-systems-2021/

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Njolk posted...

Smuckers uncrustables

I guess it has peanut butter too

Lol at 600 calories it would have to. The bread wouldn't be more than 200 for both slices and there's no way there's 400 calories of jelly on there. It'd be like a sloppy joe

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kids get breakfast in school these days?

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thronedfire2 posted...

kids get breakfast in school these days?

underpriveleged kids did 20 years ago

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The only thing that matters is that they don't learn that racism hurts people .

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thronedfire2 posted...

kids get breakfast in school these days?

depends on the school, the ones serving shit neighborhoods try to do it but they're often the ones with the worst funding.

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breakfast? is this like for kids that show up early to school? what about their lunch? if they're getting that for breakfast their lunch is probably pretty unhealthy as well.

indica posted...

It doesn't though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_on_education_(%25_of_GDP)
Also not the best health care either...
https://ceoworld.biz/2021/04/27/revealed-countries-with-the-best-health-care-systems-2021/

That's based on percent of GDP. It spends the most per student in terms of actual amount*. The quality of the actual healthcare product in America is among the best in the world, the system is not. The education in America is bad both in terms of the system and the outcomes, despite spending more.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/238733/expenditure-on-education-by-country/

*Ignoring Luxembourg

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Humble_Novice posted...

They got mad that she wanted to serve kids more veggies. These cretins are the definition of pure malice.

Maybe if they called her fatphobic the left would give them sympathy. Face it, if it hadn't been against her, people would be up in arms about body shaming the fat kids.

OT, a cookie for breakfast and a fairly plain sandwitch with more calories than a 7-11 BLT, seems like someone's trying to be fancy instead of buying, you know, cereal, like most people eat for breakfast.

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my school didn't provide breakfast at all.
i had to eat that at home.

Poor poor kids

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Njolk posted...

Jelly sandwich: 600
Milk: 200
Cheese stick: 100
Fruit cup: 100
Cookie: 200

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The calories are listed on each one

That actually sounds about right, though the milk is kind of high. Is it full fat?

200 calories for bread alone. PB is in average close to 200 calories per serving/tablespoon. Jam can be +200 calories if it's around 100g.


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But Uncrustables are only ~200 calories.

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Cpt_Pineapple posted...

at first I was like I don't remember creating this topic

._.

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Well you see, Michelle Obama tried to do something about this but Republicans cried about it for no reason.

There was some meme pictures going around of that time idiots back home would share.

It would be a school lunch tray with incredibly small portions of nasty looking food. No verification. Just meme pictures saying "This is what Michelle Obama wants to feed your children" and they took it as gospel.

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https://www.smuckersuncrustables.com/products/thaw-and-eat/peanut-butter-and-grape-jelly