There was a sneak peak of this show on last night & I watched it & was completely disgusted by the food that kids are eating at school. I was already fully aware of the pure disgusting shit that people eat every day but at school...the kind of crap these little kids were eating wasn't available to us until Jr. High School. I totally agreed with Jamie when he asked the lunch ladies if they were grossed out by the ingredients in some of the foods & Alice (the tough cookie) grabbed the burger box & said "first ingredient, ground beef" but she didn't notice the next 3 ingredients were all some form of salt/sodium! Don't these people realize that a frozen beef patty should have one ingredient "beef" not a list a mile long of other nasty shit that's in there.
I was shocked first to find out that kids are being served breakfast at school, why the eff do kids need breakfast at school? Can their parents not pour a bowl of cereal? So the kid goes to school & gets breakfast pizza that wasn't your typical breakfast pizza with eggs & what not or worse they grab a container of sugary cereal & then pour chocolate milk over it & eat it. Really?
When I was in elementary school I brought my lunch every day except chicken nugget day & I knew the nuggets weren't healthy but one day a week is fine, however if those mashed potatoes also came from pellets I'm pretty grossed out right now! We didn't get flavored milk, once in a while there would be a straggling one in the crate but I had white milk daily. We had ice cream on Wednesdays only, cheese & crackers daily & that was it...we didn't have pizza, breakfast, junk food, chips...nothing extra was offered so if you wanted junk you had to bring it from home. I also went home every night to a meat & potatoes meal with veggies & salad & while it probably wasn't all that healthy it was a Lean Cuisine compared to the shit these kids are eating at school.
What is wrong with parents to not at least make sure their kids have a healthy meal for dinner? So many kids said they had chicken nuggets or pizza for dinner the night before & they were eating the same thing for lunch the next day! Why not pack a lunch for your kid? Why not make sure they get breakfast before they go off to school? Why not care about your kids enough to find out what they are eating & stop the bad behavior before they have an obese teenager & all of those medical bills to worry about? I'll tell you why...it's because parents are too busy to set the time aside to make a nice dinner, or it's just easier to stop & grab something after picking the kids up from soccer & that might be true but healthy choices can be made when it comes to quick meals. Take the kids to Subway instead of McDonald's, get them a salad instead of a burger, shit, making a grilled cheese at home is more healthy than what they eat at school but until you introduce healthy foods to the kids they won't want to eat it. I'm not a parent (and never plan to be) but I am a very picky eater & it can take a long time to get used to eating certain foods so why not start early with the kids? Give them veggies more than meat, always include a salad, give them a lot of lean chicken fish and turkey, and for God sakes if they say they are full don't make them finish what's on the plate because overeating will only make them fat. Most important is to keep an eye on the candy & junk...I would only allow it on the weekends & in small amounts & make sure they get exercise on a daily basis.
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