[blparent] Lunch lines

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I don't know exactly why the healthy foods are more expensive, but they are. 
It costs more to give your kids apples and bananas after school than it does 
to give them Oreos.

Jo Elizabeth

"Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that never 
were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy

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From: "Elizabeth Cooks" <elizabethcooks at comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:33 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Lunch lines

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