[blparent] Lunch lines

[Elizabeth Cooks]

Why is it that the healthier foods are more expensive, anyway.  That's 
ridiculous.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Lunch lines


> And in addition, the kids won't eat the more expensive "yucky" food.  Let 
> them eat what they want.  Something in them is better than nothing. 
> Otherwise you keep having to send sack lunches along.
> But this is off topic as being blindness related.  Sorry.
> Barbara
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> Through the sunny fields of yesterday
> Echo voices of children now grown,
> Their golden peals of laughter
> Ring upon the ivied stone.
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Veronica Smith
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:08 AM
> To: blind parents
> Subject: [blparent] Lunch lines
>
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> By  MARY CLARE JALONICK. Associated Press. WASHINGTON     (AP) -- School
> children would have to hold the fries - and pick up more whole grains,
> fruits and vegetables - on the lunch line under proposed new federal
> standards for school lunches. The new standards from the Agriculture
> Department would be the first major nutritional overhaul of school meals 
> in
> 15 years. They are expected to be announced Thursday. The guidelines would
> require schools to cut sodium in those meals by more than half, use only
> whole grains and serve low fat milk. It also would limit kids to only one
> cup of starchy vegetables a week, so schools couldn't offer french fries
> every day. President Barack Obama recently signed into law a child 
> nutrition
> bill that will help schools pay for the healthier foods, which are often
> more expensive.
>
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