North Carolina School Bans Preschoolers Homemade Lunch
02/15/2012 | 11:36 AM
A food and lunch inspector at West Hoke Elementary school in North Carolina has apparently banned a preschoolers homemade lunch because it did not meet federal food and health standards, according to various news reports.
The homemade lunch the 4 year old brought to West Hoke Elementary consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips and apple juice.
All lunches served to pre-kindgarten children according to federal rules must follow USDA guidlines. Those guidelines are Lunches must have one serving of meat, on serving of milke (dairy), one serving og graing, and two servings of frutis and vegetables.
The Carolina Journal spoke to the preschoolers mother who has complained to her local congressman that not only did her daughter come home with an uneaten lunch, but a bill to for $1.25 for the cafeteria lunch she was served.
"What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly," the girl's mother told CJ. "I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn't really care for vegetables."
When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste."
It is unclear what exactly triggered the homemade lunch ban but the Principal of West Hope Elementary says she is looking into the matter.
The story has created a bit of a firestorm online, picked up by the right wing website The Drudge Report and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Limbaough has blammed Michelle Obamaand her campaign to get kids to eat healthy . During his radio program on Tuesday Rush Lmbaugh said "Do you believe this? I do! The food Nazis — and, by the way, this is Michelle (My Belle)’s program: No Child’s Behind Left Alone. Folks, what is going on here? What is wrong with a turkey sandwich and a banana?”
The homemade lunch the 4 year old brought to West Hoke Elementary consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips and apple juice.
All lunches served to pre-kindgarten children according to federal rules must follow USDA guidlines. Those guidelines are Lunches must have one serving of meat, on serving of milke (dairy), one serving og graing, and two servings of frutis and vegetables.
The Carolina Journal spoke to the preschoolers mother who has complained to her local congressman that not only did her daughter come home with an uneaten lunch, but a bill to for $1.25 for the cafeteria lunch she was served.
"What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly," the girl's mother told CJ. "I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn't really care for vegetables."
When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste."
It is unclear what exactly triggered the homemade lunch ban but the Principal of West Hope Elementary says she is looking into the matter.
The story has created a bit of a firestorm online, picked up by the right wing website The Drudge Report and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Limbaough has blammed Michelle Obamaand her campaign to get kids to eat healthy . During his radio program on Tuesday Rush Lmbaugh said "Do you believe this? I do! The food Nazis — and, by the way, this is Michelle (My Belle)’s program: No Child’s Behind Left Alone. Folks, what is going on here? What is wrong with a turkey sandwich and a banana?”
