Their Solution Is “Snacks”

I remember when I was in nursery school we had a graham cracker and a Dixie cup of water for a “snack.” We boys enjoyed making guns out of our crackers and pointing them. Smiley

According to Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the solution to the growing grumbling over re-vamped school lunch menus boils down to a good old fashioned snack.

School lunch trays are a bit lighter this year after Congress-approved calorie limits on school lunches went into effect in August. The new regulations, which were championed by First Lady Michelle Obama as part of her “Let’s Move” campaign to fight childhood obesity, have inspired protests and even a video parody from students who claim the reduced lunches are making them go hungry.

“It’s not surprising that some youngsters will in the middle of the day be hungry,” Vilsack told ABC News, responding to the controversy. “I remember my two boys when they came back from school they were always hungry, we always had snacks prepared for them.”

Vilsack said the Obama Administration is working with school districts to create snack programs and encouraging parents to pack extra food for their active students to munch on before football practice or band rehearsal.

“We understand that change is difficult,” Vilsack said. “Some folks love it, some folks have had questions about it, but that’s to be expected when you’re dealing with 32 million children and you’re dealing with over a hundred thousand school districts.”

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3 Responses to Their Solution Is “Snacks”

  1. noblindersonme says:

    it is not much of a mystery why your memories of nursery school are so vivid to you. you as an adult have not progressed much beyond that emotionally or intellectually.
    longing for your youth where responsibilty was a grown up concern is so much easier than coping with today’s world, aint it!

  2. Avatar of Kevin Kevin says:

    Are you that helpless that you need government to control every aspect of life for you, Ron?
    “Ain’t” isn’t a real word. You must have been out from school sick the day that was explained.

  3. noblindersonme says:

    kev – when I tell you that you continue to base this ‘blog’ on intellectual and emotional immaturity , you just confirm my descripition of you with such juvenile drivel.
    using’ aint’ is what is called poetic license, a colloquilalism used to be, well, be dramatic .
    and that you chose to nit pick that ,well…..
    as a father I recognize that boorish brattiness that so dominates your ‘writing’.
    say you never were a parent were you! probably never married , or divorced . drove your ex crazy didn’t you! You sure show nothing that would approach a grasp of family values in this blog . All you ever have posted were gripes about how the country is screwing poor litle ole you.
    healthy school lunches!
    DAMMIT I want to live in a country where that is given a priority by it’s government.

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