I am holding in my hands a memo from our superitendent:

"Most of the food is being wasted. A few schools reported much more waste than before. It is simply too soon to tell whether the program is a failure or not, but it is the law and we must follow it or risk losing about $2 million in school lunch reimubursement."

Also: "You will probably be getting feedback on this issue."

"The future does not belong to those who defame The Prophet of Islam, nor those who ask for a second serving of meat loaf".

"Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and generally more useful."

- Mark  Rippetoe, who knows what the fuck he's talking about.

I ate like a bastard during  football season and in the summer.  My coach was always on me to put on more mass.  How the fuck do you expect kids to  live through a period of weightlifting and then a 2-3 hour practice after school on an 850-calorie lunch?

So fucking  stupid.

The First Lady is now writing the lunch menus for local schools.

We are losing the battle for local control - of everything, but most glaringly, schools. We didnt' say much when W federalized schools under No Child Left Behind, but to think how far Republicans have come from when Reagan wanted to eliminated the Department of Education.

I'm allergic to almost all fruits (yay for bananas), and most vegetables.  I can digest some carb-food and protein (most of the time).  What in the hell would I do, if I were a student there, or a teacher?

I've always loathed this "diet" crap. I consulted a nutritionist who solemnly swore that egg yolks have no nutritional value whatsoever; if they'll lie about that, they'll lie about anything...

I love that video. Awesome.

I am just disappointed that the kids appear to have fallen asleep in chemistry class.

LOL!  Hi, Chemmy!

Restricting growing teenage boys to low protein, low calorie lunches...what could possibly go wrong?

"There's an easy way out of this, of course. They could just permit extra portions to any athletes or anyone whose parents sign a form stating they work in the morning and need extra calories."

This isn't a way out, this is simply creating exceptions to a Federally mandate that imposes a senseless and overbearing authority depriving individuals from the right to exercise their personal choices.

How about, instead of implementing an unworkable mandate and then making exceptions for certain classes of people, we remove the unworkable mandate altogether?

I bet you money that test scores will go down.  It's hard to take a test when you are having hunger pains.  Plus the lack of calories.  Your brain needs fuel, not just your body.

Good video, and its been out for a while. One of the few that I bring up on the big TV to watch. The overly dramatic falling down and crawling must really stick in the dimbocrats crawl.

Protesting the Hunger-Free Act of 2010 - what a fucking Orwellian title to a bill that brings more hunger instead of less. On seeing the bill title I knew it had to be invented by a Dem, and 1 minute of checking found that yes, it was introduced by a dem during her 45 seconds as Senator before being booted roundly by a Aransas Republican. Looks like it was introduced and rushed through during the lame duck congess of 2010. Practically introduced, and signed into law in world record time.

The Prophet of Islam screwed a nine year old girl.

It isn't slander if it is true.  My future is intact

Posted by: Vic at September 25, 2012 11:54 AM (YdQQY)

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They should do that for every program, and have all of the employers in the state send their quarterlies to the state capitol, then decide what percentage will be forwarded to DC.  This was in the planning stages in the eighties, not sure what happened to it.

All the school has to do is forgo federal funds and they can serve what ever they want.

It's a federal mandate to serve lunch. I don't think districts can afford it. They would need to get out from the mandate and then offer lunch to only the truly needy, but they would be buried in lawsuits.

Not that you are not taking the right approach. We need to wrestle control of our locals schools back from the feds.

Serious question here: What the hell is up with peanut allergies? When I was a kid, everybody ate peanut butter. Never saw anyone have a reaction. Where the hell did all this shit come from? Now Billy can't even bring a PBJ to school cuz Mikey might die from the smell?<<<<<

They're not allergic, they're fucking racists. 

Who invented the peanut?  George Washington Carver - A KNOWN  BLACK MAN.  I don't know how clearly it needs to be laid out before people realize what's going on right in front of them.

I don't have any children and don't really expect to have any in the future, and even so the thought of some beaurocrat intentionally denying my hypothetical children the necessary food makes me angry on a pretty viceral level.

I have to say that this is a great civics lesson for kids.  They are learning something firsthand, better than they would if they sat in a government class.  Top down legislating, state control is wrong.  Gubamint trying to "solve problems" always has unintended consequences that harm the people the gubamint is trying to save.  In short, elections have consequences, kiddies! 

In order to make kids less fat, don't underfeed them but make them run laps instead.  Underfeeding children, unlike adults, is actually a really bad idea as opposed to merely ineffective.   Supergenius wisdom from decades of football coaches.  Also, long walks.     

Serious question here: What the hell is up with peanut allergies? When I was a kid, everybody ate peanut butter. Never saw anyone have a reaction. Where the hell did all this shit come from? Now Billy can't even bring a PBJ to school cuz Mikey might die from the smell?

I don't get it.

Me either.  We were on a plane a few weeks ago.  I ordered a beer and asked for peanuts.  The flight attendant said they couldn't serve any peanuts because someone on the plane had allergies.  So I asked, What about all the peanuts on the floor?  The attendant said I know, but it's our policy.  Fucktards.

Posted by: BigDPhoton at September 25, 2012 11:56 AM (d2QQ4)

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She should have told him to eat it while she stood guard.  I'm sorry, but any school official who believes that they outrank the parent needs to have some teeth knocked out.

You want your kids to eat what you want them to have, send them to school with lunch you prepare. 

The problem is, some of the schools are monitoring what kids are bringing from home.  I remember several stories last year where kids were told the lunches they brought were unhealthy and were tossed.  The kids were then forced to eat school lunches, and their parents were sent a bill.  The schools were actually paying people to to through kids' lunch boxes to make sure they were in compliance with government standards.  It's a crazy, scary world we are living in right now.

When your only tools are a hammer and a sickle, then everybody looks like a Kulak

Good enough reason for a repost:

High school band marches with hammer sickle

http://tinyurl.com/bl448sp

Superindendent:

"If anything is being celebrated it's the music," she said. "It is what it is. I understand people look at something and choose how to interpret that and I'm just very sorry that it wasn't looked at as just a history lesson."

Besides, she explained, "in 2008 we did an entire show on freedom."

After Obama seizes all the farms, because they make a profit, and the Department of Agriculture is in charge of managing farming and food prooduction, people will have to get used to 1500 calories per day.  Arugula will, however, be widely available.

I'm still waiting on Maxine Waters to follow through on her threat to nationalize the oil companies.  I'll be buying Schwinn stocks then...

Posted by: jewells45 says Romney wins in a landslide at September 25, 2012 11:59 AM (l/N7H)

You need to tell her that what they're serving is only 'healthy' in the mind of a gov't. bureaucrat. 

Calorie restriction backfires big time....and PROTEIN AND SALT ARE NOT THE ENEMY!

Posted by: Y-not at September 25, 2012 12:00 PM (5H6zj)

  I've been saying for weeks he should use Mike. He's very popular!

>>Serious question here: What the hell is up with peanut allergies? When I was a kid, everybody ate peanut butter. Never saw anyone have a reaction. Where the hell did all this shit come from? Now Billy can't even bring a PBJ to school cuz Mikey might die from the smell?<<<<<

Weak Jeans.

"Also, long walks."

I like long walks!  (Only in my country, we called them ''marches")...

Posted by: Tami at September 25, 2012 12:02 PM (X6akg)

Too much protein can easily be an enemy.

More like fat and salt is not the enemy! There is NO difference in mortality for those eating salt and restricting salt. None.

Posted by: runningrn at September 25, 2012 12:01 PM (WGmy2)

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Send the school a bill for the lunch they tossed.  This is really pissing me off. 

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 25, 2012 11:46 AM (UZQM

So when is The Magical Negro going to pass out his little books for everyone to read before lunch?

850 calories for a high school kid is insane.

Here's another bit of insanity, putting aside obesity, high school kids are not the same size and have different nutritional needs.  A 13 year old girl is usually smaller than an 18 year old boy.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at September 25, 2012 12:04 PM (xAtAj)

I didn't say 'TOO much protein'. 

Whatever happened to that time honored, favorite, liberal slogan,

MY BODY, MY CHOICE!!!!!ELEVENTY!!!!!

School lunches? And school breakfasts. And summer break meals.

And subsidized meals for ALL family members...legal residents or not.

How the fuck do you expect kids to live through a period of weightlifting and then a 2-3 hour practice after school on an 850-calorie lunch?

I burn 850 calories a day just trying to hide my erections!?

Too much protein can easily be an enemy.

Funny you should say that, I have packed on some lbs. the last 4 years...

Screw the calorie restrictions, period.  It's ridiculous.  when I was in school back in the 80s and 90s, portion control was restricted to "you can only take one of anything    with your   meal plan.     Any more you    have to pay extra."  That   was about it.       

Hungry kids in school -- even fat kids who    need to go on a diet -- is bad.      Hunger makes it harder to concentrate,   so    have fun taking    that math exam    during last block,     Sally!   

Lack of concentration also leads to being easily distracted.   You're not going to learn much Spanish if you're staring out the window at a bird making its nest on the ledge   instead of listening to the teacher.

Distractedness leads to disruption.   How many times is that Spanish teacher going to have to stop the class to tell kids to pay attention?   How many times is the math teacher going to have to go back and re-cover areas that students did poorly    in on their exams,   because the hungry kids couldn't focus on the test?

And make no mistake -- if kids aren't getting the food they want and/or need in school, they'll get it elsewhere.  They'll smuggle in junk food, or even non-junk food but in bigger portions.  Eating a Twinkie       will be the modern equivalent of smoking in the boy's room.    "I hear plastic wrappers crinkling in here!   Who's got the Little Debbie snack cakes?"  

Kids will be swapping money    on the playground in exchange    for tuna fish sandwiches on rye with    bits of pickle.      A BLT with plenty of bacon and mayo   will fetch a small fortune.

At breakfast, kids will gorge themselves on sugary cereals, pop tarts, bagels, what have you, because they know otherwise they'll be hungry by the end of the day.      Instead of spreading their caloric intake through the day, they'll frontload it.      Then they'll go sit in class all morning,   inactive;   or they'll go to phys ed with a stomach stuffed with crap and end up sick with cramps.

This is just a stupid policy from    top to bottom,   inside and out.

Childhood obesity would be halfway to "solved" if schools simply switched out skim milk for whole milk. The extra calories would do a better job keeping them away from junk food.

You can't fight biology. Hunger will trump nearly everything else.

The bad news: Rowe insists that Romney participate in helping him cleaning local septic tanks and artificially inseminating cows.

That's fine.  I do draw the line at castrating the lambs, though!

Posted by: Nighthawk at September 25, 2012 12:13 PM (RSqz2)

Not to worry.....all the soy products in food today is doing that anyway.  It depresses testosterone production.

Soy....the greatest fraud perpetrated on the American public since.....well, ever.

@127

If a kid is getting too big I think it's the parent who needs to get out and run with the kids.  I'm opposed to "fat runs" around school all day while the other kids point and laugh or something.  Though it worked for offensive linemen trying to shed 20 pounds. 

So according to HHS:

So if you ask me, the whole obesity thing is mostly a problem in the African American community, specifically in the female population.  But pointing this out is probably, I don't know, racist. 

I denounce myself!

Posted by: runninrebel at September 25, 2012 12:00 PM (N/1Dm)

Who's laughing now?

Posted by: phoenixgirl, what did huma abedin know? at September 25, 2012 12:05 PM (Ho2rs)

Everyone needs lipids for proper metabolism.

Fasting will cause your body to store fat.

Yup, your body goes into starvation mode.  Your body is a furnace.  You don't give it fuel, it shuts down.

This is what happens when five dolts in a room in Washington decide what's best for 300 MILLION people.

Up next:  You have too many clothes and everyone gets one television that shows nothing but Lifetime movies.

Posted by: Grey Fox at September 25, 2012 12:01 PM (3XBCj)

If any of these people try that with my boy (or future offspring), there will be some ass-raping going on.  And I am talking rape-rape here. 

Or I might just send him to school with "lunch" and "dinner" clearly marked in two separate bags. Game on, bitches.

Posted by: Vic at September 25, 2012 11:59 AM (YdQQY)

Unfortunately, many states don't give schools the option to opt out.

@227

Los Angeles City Council member Jan Perry rammed through a ban on building new fast food restaurants in South Central Los Angeles a few years ago.  She claimed that it was the fast food restaurants' fault that obesity was all the rage in the Black community.  Um...no.  I'm a black female and my ass isn't fat...never has been.  This is due to the welfare crap.  Easy lifestyle at someone elses expense.  By the way, Jan Perry's ass is the size of Moochelle's.  And now I denounce myself as both racist and an Uncle Tom/ette ten different ways to Sunday.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Posted by: Countrysquire at September 25, 2012 12:25 PM (1hLHC)

Damn, just beat me to it!  That's all I can think of with this.

@260

My kid's school sent home a single mini Snickers I included in his lunch as contraband.  So not sure how long that solution is viable.  

@258

In Irvine, California the same thing was about to be tried and the parents revolted.  Of course, Irvine is a planned community, but the parents just didn't understand why kids should be getting free lunches.  The natural recipients were of the Latino persuasion.

The teachers themselves have to do the serving. Excellent use of teacher time, don't you think?

When I was in school, right up through middle school, we weren't even allowed in the BUILDING until five minutes before the     bell rang.     That only changed if there was a raging blizzard outside, or if the temps were dangerously low (like, subzero).     The teachers didn't want us underfoot as they got ready for the day, so the doors stayed locked.   It pissed me off then and now, because even as  a kid I knew the teachers were mostly just bitching to each other about the shitty days theyw ere going to have (I had a number of burned out    Union teachers in my day, especially in middle school).      But if that was back in the late 80s/early 90s     in rural NH,     I can only imagine how much LESS the teachers want to deal with kids TODAY.

So you believe in censorship? How about corporal punishment for those who disparage the prophet?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 25, 2012 12:09 PM (2b4yb)

How about corporal punishment for 2 hours and worship the prophet for 14, instead of the other way around.

@280

She is such a pathetic excuse of a person.  And I am sooo tired of our mayor, Anthony (We clean your toilets) VilLaRaza.

Posted by: sydney jane at September 25, 2012 12:25 PM (zYWPO)

He tried but it created such an uproar among farm States like Iowa he had to eat it.

Bastards!  I can't believe they're going to force my hand into voting for Romney.  But I cannot bring myself to vote for someone who is so demonstrably anti-portion.  Woe is me.

Posted by: Young River Tam at September 25, 2012 12:17 PM (4I3Uo) 

Hmmm....  does Bill Ayers (Phd. Edu) have blue-gloved hands?

"Starved people cannot be taught democracy. To talk about the will of the people when you aren't feeding them is perfect hogwash."  - Ancel Keys, reporting the results of his "Great Starvation Experiment", 1950

A fascinating read about experimentation done at the end of WWII to figure out how  to feed a starving Europe without killing her people - researchers 1st had to starve volunteers in order to figure out what would work best.

The starvation experiment garnered amazing (and appalling) discoveries - Keys wanted to stop the experiment because of the toll that it was taking on his healthy subjects.

http://is.gd/r3rJZH

@287

I really hate it here in California, but I have to wait it out.  Shaking my head...

Posted by: Tami at September 25, 2012 12:02 PM (X6akg)

Healthy food, non-healthy food......in either case it's irrelevant. The proper way to examine any government mandate/rule/regulation/law is to decide if it's proper to put a gun to someone's head to enforce it. Because in EVERY case, that's the ultimate enforcement mechanism.

@276

I'm being totally polite until they teach my kid about politics or the concept of "race".  Then I'm going to get pissed.  

Posted by: I Be That Chick at September 25, 2012 12:32 PM (lAMRW)

*making beckoning motions*  Come to New Hampshire.  Cooome to New Haaampshiiire...  

We need more sane people to move here to beat back the loonies from MA and VT.

@301

This 1000 times!  I remember looking forward to recess and gym class in elementary school.  I don't really recall obese classmates either.  I also remember always being outside, especially in the summer.  Nowadays these kids want to stay glued to the tv or video games.  We weren't allowed to do that.

Mountain Dew is OK to sub for the coke, as well.

An MD and a Slim Jim were my breakfast for my senior year of high school.

Posted by: Vic at September 25, 2012 12:37 PM (YdQQY)

How else would they buy their lobster and t-bones?

Want to encourage kids to eat crappy food outside of school?  Limit what they can eat inside of school.  Once again, the laws of unintended consequences cease to exist in Liberal land.

There's an easy way out of this, of course. They could just permit extra portions to any athletes or anyone whose parents sign a form stating they work in the morning and need extra calories.

thats your 'easy' way out of it?? how 'bout the feds stay the fuck out of what local schools put on the menu? much easier huh?

An MD and a Slim Jim were my breakfast for my senior year of high school.

Warmed  up   Honey Bun and a Double Cola here.   Lunch was fast food.  Of course, this was back in the '70's.

I don't have a strong position on the whole Paleo-Jihad thing, nor do I find that carbohydrates are the debil.

But I will say that demonizing salt is total BS. There is no solid evidence that salt is bad for you, and a lot of those people with heart disease who gave up salt ended up with no change or becoming worse. It was a total snipe hunt. Completely ficticious health concern. The evil "sodium" is not bad for you.

I loved that study a couple of years back that said  that the majority  of kids went to bed hungry.

Well no  shit Sherlock. Anybody who's ever had a kid knows they do three things very well: eat,  sleep, and play. BBSquared's favorite toy was the fridge.  I don't  think he  got full until he was around 20 years  old.

Remember the firestorm during the Regan years when catsup was classified as a vegetable?

Now were going to intentionally starve kids. I guess its all about good intentions.

That would be very difficult since Barky signed the legislation on Dec 13, 2010 and the GOP didn't take over the House until 2011.

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Wrote by a Senate dem, no co sponsors, passed both dem houses in record time, almost as if they didn't read past the title. During a lame duck session.

you may be in an area where what parents pack in their kids' lunches isn't inspected/rejected...so far so good so no worries, eh?

or you may have younger kids that are scared to come home and complain...

Remember the firestorm during the Regan years when catsup was classified as a vegetable?

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that was reagan?  thought it was the sec under clinton that found himself dead in a helicopter crash (90's kid, here)

Are the teachers going to search each one and throw half the food away?

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shovel ready jobs?

Re peanut allergies increasing in frequency, I've heard that it may be because of pregnant women eating large quantities of peanut butter after being told to eat lots of protein.

(anecdote: only known one kid with a peanut allergy and yep, his mom said she did eat a lot of p.b. while preggers)

If that's the case, hopefully OB's are now warning women not to eat loads of it and the numbers of  kids with that allergy will go back down.

No, it is never reasonable to usurp the parents. If I want to feed my kid HoHos and Coke, it isn't the government's problem or business.

Your problem was feeding your kid. The reason for the scope of the federal school lunch program is that some parents won't feed their kids, but we don't want to stigmatize those kids, so the program is open to all kids, (reduced price), even the ones who don't need it.

The program began as a way to 1. Feed truly need children and 2. subsidize agriculture (this might be #1).

Now it's used to feed children who's parent(s) can't feed them, but can afford cable, DVRs and better cellphones that us.

You Pathetic Load of Communal Horse Cum are experts not only on foreign policy, but on childhood nutrition, too.

Well at least I don't go around telling people how much they ought to weigh. Hows that for regulation? Overweight kids?

I can't wait until they start fining by the pound.

"kids go to bed hungry"

The ones who figured out hunger is a really good way to try to stretch bed time past 9 on a school night.  See, my allergies are the bubonic plague.  

But seriously, I'm in favor of kids being fed and less EBT cards in strip clubs.  

The reason for the scope of the federal school lunch program is that some parents won't feed their kids

That was a red herring. Parents don't feed those overweight kids? "Poor" kids are more likely to be overweight, you know. Must have gotten food somewhere.

Oh, is there some emaciated starving little beggar with a swollen stomach showing up at school? Then WTF is DCFS doing and why haven't we fired them all? Chronically not feeding children is potentially criminal. If mommy doesn't give him but 1 saltine cracker a day, the solution we need is not lunch at school, it's foster care with a competent and non-sadistic caretaker.

I've struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember.  When I had my little man, I was petrified that he was going to have weight issues so I took a proactive approach and didn't offer alternatives to what hubs and I ate for dinner.  He eats just about everything.  He doesn't like salad, raw tomatoes or raw onions.  He ASKS for brussell sprouts and broccoli.

The thing is that while he was my Chunky McChunkster at ages 3-5, over this past summer he sprouted 2 inches and lost all of his chunkiness.  He's thin and lean and eats like there's no tomorrow.  

Who's responsibility is it to see to it that his nutritional needs are being met?  Mine and only mine. 

This is practice for the full bore socialism that`s coming in the second term.  The dead will be the lucky ones. 

I hope the voters recognize this and In November, tell Mr. Obama to tell Mrs. Obama to shove it up her ass.   After all, even stupid people get hungry.

If thats the reason why aren't a lot of kids allergic to ice cream/milk then?

Well, baby mammals are meant to be fed dairy. Older children and adults often become lactose intolerant.

Most of the people I know who are lactose intolerant consume epic amounts of lactose anyway, which might have something to do with it. I've always said I don't think anyone is lactose intolerant in Somalia. Sola dosis facit venenum.

I don't drink much milk really, except a bit of cream in coffee. If I have 8 ounces, I'm fine. If I drink 18 ounces, I think I'm lactose intolerant. I think that's just what milk does if you drink way too much of it.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 25, 2012 12:07 PM (SY2Kh)

"And at the end of that crazy day, the Governor called me up to ask how things were going.

"Hectic", I said. "The workers were delayed, and now it's getting late and the septic tank's still backed up and none of the cows are pregnant"

"I'll get the boys" Romney promised."

303And if you do bring lunch from home the next step will be to divvy it up between the 'less fortunate' kiddies.

Oh Jimmy, you brought Oreos? Little Billy only has those shitty Hydrox. Give 'em up junior!

Made me think of my daughter's first day at kindergarten over 20 years ago.  We had packed her a wonderful lunch in her new Skipper lunchbox, which she was so proud of. 

A couple hours later I get a call at work from the school: someone took her lunchbox and she had no lunch.  Brought her a new lunch and spoke to the teacher.  They were "looking into" who took her lunchbox. 

The principal called us that night; they were pretty sure who had taken it, and they would be talking to the child first thing in the morning when she got there. 

I went early to the school with my daughter the next day.  The principal was waiting for the thief's bus; and brought the little girl into the office. 

She readily admitted she took the lunchbox, but only because my daughter had such a nice one, and she had an ugly one, and her parents couldn't afford to buy her a nice one like that.  Then she started crying.

The principal started patting her on the back and told her, "Oh, it's okay, honey." 

I said very loudly, "NO, it's NOT okay.  That's how life is.  We don't take what's not ours just because we don't like what we have.  Doesn't anyone actually care that my daughter got traumatized her first day of school, or that stealing is wrong?"

A little socialist, and her enabler.  Nothing was done about it, other than she got a talking to and some sympathy for her home situation.  As far as I know, her parents weren't even called. 

My first experience with public school.  And my last.  It was a good lesson for my daughter. 

She had been on a waiting list for a Catholic school.  I called the next day and didn't let up until she got admitted. 

But before my daughter left the public school, the little thief pushed the bathroom door into her face, and my daughter came home with a big bruise on her cheek.  The brat called it an accident, and the teacher accepted it. 

Yes, the the thief was a minority, and yes, she got away with it all. 

If mommy doesn't give him but 1 saltine cracker a day, the solution we need is not lunch at school, it's foster care with a competent and non-sadistic caretaker.Posted by: entropy at September 25, 2012 01:12 PM (TULs6)

Mommy's just splitting parental duties with Daddy - which is you and me.

Posted by: CJ at September 25, 2012 01:05 PM (9KqcB)

Don't know if you know this, but now the government will buy them the cell phone, too (at least in WA).  Check out assurance wireless free cell phone, eligible if you are on SNAP or other public assistance. I was blown away.

I realize I'm getting in on this late but, you know, job.  Anyhoo,

Low calorie school lunches won't fix most fat kids.  Wanna know why?  Go to the local grocery store and take a look at their momma's shopping carts.  Pop, pizza, pre-prepared foods, chips, Little Debbie-type snacks, etc.  Yeah, I know some of it's genetics.  But funny that most families that are genetically fat, have lousy eating habits.

Looks like insurance companies are getting on the bandwagon, as well:

"Humana announced a new partnership with Wal-Mart on Wednesday that will give the more than 1 million members of its wellness program, HumanaVitality, a 5 percent discount on healthy groceries."

link: http://tinyurl.com/8oabhxv

They then put it all in a box and it is divided up equally so that the ones who did not bring any will not be "embarrassed".

Now, that just ticks me off.  You wanna know how I could afford to buy supplies for 3 children on nothing but a preacher's salary?  I got the list asap then I bought a little bit each time I went shopping.  I'm equally enraged by enablers and the enabled.

At my daughter's school, you are required to take a fruit or vegetable even if you don't eat them.  We told our daughter to give hers to one of her classmates that eats them.  There's a  rule that you can't share food with your classmates.  (she's skinny as a rail).