Bill: No snacks for food stamp users

[Dixie]

It depending on how years are you work and how much you make to contribute to SS.

I know some people got more than $1,500 per month in SSDI after many years of working.

The average though is around $900/mo. My friend divulged to me that they receive $890/month, as well as food stamps. She has her bills paid with *some* money left over at the end of the month. She told me that after everything is paid for the month she has a whopping $100 left to spend. That's not a lot of money by modern standards.

 

[Grayma]

Wirelessly posted (droid)

Telling poor people that they shouldn't have soda and chips is so petty. I would be embarassed to say something so petty.

Nobody has told anybody they can't have soda and chips. I would prefer that people not buy those things with my money.

As for 'poor people', I've lived under the poverty line most of my life. Lived above it the last ten years. As far as income goes, we're back below it again, since my husband lost his job.

Me, I would be embarrassed to use food stamps for junk food that most of my taxpaying friends don't buy because they can't afford it.

 

[Reba]

This is really getting out of hand.

NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets
3:12 pm, February 14, 2012, by Ryan Sullivan

RAEFORD, N.C. — A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have enough nutritional value, according to a report by the Carolina Journal.

The West Hoke Elementary School student was in her More at Four classroom when a state agent who was inspecting lunch boxes decided that her packed lunch — which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips — “did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines,” the Journal reports.

The decision was made under consideration of a regulation put in place by the the Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs to meet USDA guidelines.

“When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones,” the Journal reports.

The student’s mother told the Journal she received a note from the school about the incident and was charged $1.25 for the cafeteria tray, from which her daughter only ate three chicken nuggets.

The note explained how students who did not bring “healthy lunches” would be offered the missing portions and that parents could be charged for the cost of the cafeteria food, the Journal reports.

The mother, who was not identified in the report, expressed concern about school officials telling her daughter that she wasn’t “packing her lunch box properly.”

NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets | MyFOX8.com

 

[Cheetah]

This is really getting out of hand.

Sounds like an opportunity for education to take place.

 

[Banjo]

Sounds like an opportunity for education to take place.

Completely in agreement, however I felt that they should have replaced the child's lunch with Louis Jos and a couple packs of Hostess Cupcakes instead.

 

[Cheetah]

Completely in agreement, however I felt that they should have replaced the child's lunch with Louis Jos and a couple packs of Hostess Cupcakes instead.

And twinkies!!! Cause twinkies never go bad!!!

 

[Banjo]

And twinkies!!! Cause twinkies never go bad!!!

Even better, double-fried twinkles.

 

[Cheetah]

Even better, double-fried twinkles.

If I were a teenager still, I would so try that!!!

 

[Grayma]

This is really getting out of hand.

Indeed.
State Inspectors Searching Children

The four year old child's lunch from home includes a turkey sandwich, a banana, applejuice, and some chips.

The Federal Lunch Bag Inspector insisted that she needed vegetable soup, another piece of fruit, milk, and chicken nuggets. Alll that in addition to her lunchbag lunch is way too much for a four year old to eat for a single meal.

Of course, she didn't eat it all. This being a four year old child, naturally, all she ate was the chicken nuggets. So the Federal inspector made her lunch worse, not better.

The mother, who lives in Fayetteville, sent a statement to state Rep. G.L. Pridgen (R-Robeson) detailing her complaint. Pridgen says he was shocked to hear it. Pridgen has since learned this is a nationwide practice based on federal guidelines.

An assistant to Pridgen says the girl’s grandmother was also upset and asked, “This isn’t China, is it?”

The government inspector was from the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised program at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program gives schools a grade based on standards that include USDA meal guidelines enforced by the N.C. Division of Early Childhood Development.

The nutrition standards for pre-K lunch require milk, two servings of fruit or vegetable, bread or grains and a meat or meat alternative. The school didn’t receive a high grade from the January assessment because the home-made lunches didn’t meet those guidelines. The mother points out the only thing on that list her daughter’s home lunch didn’t have was milk, so she doesn’t understand why the girl was given a complete school meal as a supplement.

Her mother says the reason she doesn't put vegetables in the four year old's lunch is because the child won't eat her vegetables unless Mom is watching, and Mom doesn't want her wasting food. So she feeds her child vegetables at home where she can be sure she's actually eating them.

 

[TXgolfer]

This is really getting out of hand.



NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets | MyFOX8.com

Wow, just...........wow. Maybe they are just practicing for when China takes over.

 

[Tousi]

Wow, just...........wow. Maybe they are just practicing for when China takes over.

Yeah.......say, doesn't China now already own about 7 States?

 

[kokonut]

The ultimate form of nannyism.

I agree, not every kid will eat their vegetables for lunch from their lunch bag.

Maybe next time get McDonalds chicken nuggets?

 

[TXgolfer]

Yeah.......say, doesn't China now already own about 7 States?

Sure looks that way.

 

[Cheetah]

Indeed.
State Inspectors Searching Children

The four year old child's lunch from home includes a turkey sandwich, a banana, applejuice, and some chips.

The Federal Lunch Bag Inspector insisted that she needed vegetable soup, another piece of fruit, milk, and chicken nuggets. Alll that in addition to her lunchbag lunch is way too much for a four year old to eat for a single meal.

Of course, she didn't eat it all. This being a four year old child, naturally, all she ate was the chicken nuggets. So the Federal inspector made her lunch worse, not better.



Her mother says the reason she doesn't put vegetables in the four year old's lunch is because the child won't eat her vegetables unless Mom is watching, and Mom doesn't want her wasting food. So she feeds her child vegetables at home where she can be sure she's actually eating them.

Sounds like the inspector screwed up! Damn these humans, they are so fallible!

 

[TXgolfer]

Indeed.
State Inspectors Searching Children

The four year old child's lunch from home includes a turkey sandwich, a banana, applejuice, and some chips.

The Federal Lunch Bag Inspector insisted that she needed vegetable soup, another piece of fruit, milk, and chicken nuggets. Alll that in addition to her lunchbag lunch is way too much for a four year old to eat for a single meal.

Of course, she didn't eat it all. This being a four year old child, naturally, all she ate was the chicken nuggets. So the Federal inspector made her lunch worse, not better.



Her mother says the reason she doesn't put vegetables in the four year old's lunch is because the child won't eat her vegetables unless Mom is watching, and Mom doesn't want her wasting food. So she feeds her child vegetables at home where she can be sure she's actually eating them.

I'm in my 40's....I still don't eat my vegetables unless my mom is there watching.

 

[Grayma]

Sounds like the inspector screwed up! Damn these humans, they are so fallible!

Put them in a position of petty power and make them school lunch inspectors, because when herded into bureaucracies they are so much LESS fallible.

 

[Foxrac]

This is really getting out of hand.



NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets | MyFOX8.com

OMG!!! Homemade lunch bags are more healthy than greasy, lousy school lunch...

 

[Foxrac]

OMG!!! Homemade lunch bags are more healthy than greasy, lousy school lunch...

It did happened to me in 1995 when I brought my own lunch that contain chicken sandwich, potato chip, M&M's candies and punch juice so my teacher found my lunch does not meet nutrient value so I was forced to ate lousy, oily school lunch but... I REFUSED to ate and show disrespectful to teacher that lead to meet with my parent. In conference meeting, my parent explained to principal and teacher about situation with school lunch so they agreed to leave me alone.

Other incident happened again in 1997, I REFUSED to ate so I got in huge trouble. I had write 100 sentences - say... I will eat school lunch in the cafeteria. My parent got fed up and called school board to set conference meeting so it is resolved.

 

[UNYTruthHunters]

If you all dont like taxes, vote them out! Get rid of Obama! Get rid of dummycrats! Vote the right party, right people who are against taxes. Think about that. If you do not like it, RUN for political office to get those taxes and regulations repealed. I would do that if I were you. Talking about it does not help. Doing it does! Becoming Occupy does not help either. Besides that Occupy crap does more harm than good. They are socialists and communists who very much love high taxes! They are hypocrites!

 

[webexplorer]

My mother's friend lost her home and moved in my house for a temporary like five months. Now, she works in the kitchen at middle school. She told me that she worked as a cook chief for many years. She loves to do cooking. At first, I believed that she was a good cooker, and it turned out that she cooks some fatty food such homemade cottage cheeses, a lot of homemade pastas, watery chicken pies, etc. I can't believe that she cooks these stuff at school. That is pretty not healthy to me. I tried to talk her out of it to make do the right cooking like fresh vegetables (not from the vegetable cans), and other stuff. I am just a basic cooker and know what is good and bad stuff. She never reads the ingredients on the food packages before she buys them such as high fruit corn syrup, artificial sweeteners (i.e. aspartame, sucralose, etc). I realize that there is no education program in kitchen schools to discuss about the bad ingredients so I guess that the food corporations want the teachers to shut up their mouth and make money in the business.

She volunteered to feed homeless people at a shelter which was nice thing for her to do that. I can't imagine that what they have to say about fatty foods that she made. Maybe, they did not have much choice to eat them.

@ UNYTruthHunters - it has nothing to do with Obama or other presidents. It's us that we pick. Perhaps, we could try to vote for a green party that might makes the difference. By the way, I think that Ron Paul is a great politician because he tells the truth. I believe that we really do not need to believe what the news reporters have to say about how good or bad the politicians are because they are required to lie in order for them to make money in the media news. How about if we find a proof to see their nose grow fast and longer so that we know that he/she is lying? Smile.