Mom Gives Kids Homemade Lunch, School Charges Them for 'Supplemental' Ritz Crackers
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[quote]It's quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Government's Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article incorrectly pointed at the Manitoba Child Care Association as the source of the strangely interpreted policy).
Apparently if a child's lunch is deemed "unbalanced", where "balance" refers to ensuring that a lunch conforms to the proportions of food groups as laid out by Canada's awful Food Guide, then that child's lunch is "supplemented", and their parent is fined.
Blog reader Kristen Bartkiw received just such a fine.
She sent her children to daycare with with lunches containing leftover homemade roast beef and potatoes, carrots, an orange and some milk.
She did not send along any "grains".
As a consequence the school provided her children with, I kid you not, supplemental Ritz Crackers, and her with a $10 fine.
As Kristen writes, had she sent along lunches consisting of, "microwave Kraft Dinner and a hot dog, a package of fruit twists, a Cheestring, and a juice box" those lunches would have sailed right through this idiocy. But her whole food, homemade lunches? They lacked Ritz Crackers.[/quote]
[url]http://www.weightymatters.ca/2013/11/parents-fined-for-not-sending-ritz.html[/url]
School nutrition is bullshit.
Wait wait wait. I thought pasta was considered a grain.
there was a fucking potato which more than supplements wheat
Potatoes are a starch. The douchebags could at least learn their food groups.
and then they fucking charge 5 bucks for ritz like really jesus
holy crap they are being [B]charged[/B] just because they didn't bring a loaf of bread?
Is Canada's school lunch system privatized the way America's is? That might explain bullshit like this.
Wow, Canada sure sounds like it's really anal about snack time.
how is this news other than that they charged her $10, which really isnt a big deal anyway
its just one daycare's nutrition policy and how they interpret the regulation
The way these peoples brains work legitimately scare me.....
wtf kind of school fines you over what you gave your kid for lunch
And of course, it's got to be fucking Manitoba (and if shian decides to post it..).
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Wait look at the date, the picture itself is dated to December 10, 2012...
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;42910635]Funny how students tend to be treated like livestock in schools (actually no it isn't funny at all).
EVERYTHING is regulated and the meals that they provide for them are always stale / borderline rotten shit anyways.
Judging from the picture i'm guessing this was in Canada?[/QUOTE]
manitoba is in canada yes
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;42910635]Judging from the picture i'm guessing this was in Canada?[/QUOTE]
The frozen shithole that just froze over two days ago.
[QUOTE=Loriborn;42910628]how is this news other than that they charged her $10, which really isnt a big deal anyway
its just one daycare's nutrition policy and how they interpret the regulation[/QUOTE]
It shows how embarrassingly incompetent their food and health regulations are as well as how they are enforced. It's a massive joke to me that this even happened in the first place, and that schools have this much power over parents in regards to their childrens nutrition. Last I checked, schools are pretty shit at offering healthy foods, and the fact they burned the parents on salty crackers is just hilarious.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;42910666]It shows how embarrassingly incompetent their food and health regulations are as well as how they are enforced. It's a massive joke to me that this even happened in the first place, and that schools have this much power over parents in regards to their childrens nutrition. Last I checked, schools are pretty shit at offering healthy foods, and the fact they burned the parents on salty crackers is just hilarious.[/QUOTE]
Hell, the schools in Winnipeg I went through literally don't give a shit what you eat (as long as it ain't peanuts, because allergies). Mind you, this particular incident happened in a daycare, and I can't really speak for daycare experiences.
lmfao are you kidding me? You can't bring a homemade lunch unless it's up to par with the school's guidlelines?
I want to reach into my asshole just so the piece of shit can be that much more fresh when I slap whoever came up with that dumb fucking idea in the face with it.
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are these people fucking stupid or what I mean do you really expect a human to consume all of those different fucking food groups at one time?
Evolution has made the human body best at handling things one at a time for maximum efficiency not let's mix every type of food together all in one sitting and sort it back out so we can shit
Zero tolerance policies leave zero tolerance for rationality. That's just the way it goes.
Also, potatoes are probably considered a vegetable, not a grain. I know that's the way it is here in the US.
The food supplier for our school just got in trouble with the health inspector for improper food management as well as not dating foods.
As a matter of fact they still don't date them so I should probably call the county.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;42910995]As a matter of fact they still don't date them so I should probably call the county.[/QUOTE]
Do it.
Refuse to pay, force the school to take legal action on it, drive it to court, show the world how fucking dumb it is.
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42911140]Refuse to pay, force the school to take legal action on it, drive it to court, show the world how fucking dumb it is.[/QUOTE]
I don't eat lunch at school.
The food they give is hilarious though. They can give you whatever the want so long as they adhere to the rules.
So they give us broccoli in a bag with a cheeseburger and some peaches and ranch dressing.
never has a crime against food been so blatant.
If you're going to supplement a lunch that's missing grains then supplement it with whole wheat pasta or rice
Ritz crackers are fucking junk food
[QUOTE=Zeke129;42911170]If you're going to supplement a lunch that's missing grains then supplement it with whole wheat pasta or rice
Ritz crackers are fucking junk food[/QUOTE]
I'm surprised they didn't just give them plain crackers
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;42910718]Hell, the schools in Winnipeg I went through literally don't give a shit what you eat (as long as it ain't peanuts, because allergies). Mind you, this particular incident happened in a daycare, and I can't really speak for daycare experiences.[/QUOTE]
I definitely agree on the allergen ban due to hospital visits due to exposure, etc. When it comes to helping kids with their eating habits, the schools should provide an adequately healthy lunch, and the parents should be responsible enough to provide the nourishment for a meal from home. I don't think many parents send their kids off with only a lunchable and a candy bar.
a lunchable and a candy bar are more healthy then the food they give at schools.
those fucking douchebags
[QUOTE=Kyle902;42911160]I don't eat lunch at school.
The food they give is hilarious though. They can give you whatever the want so long as they adhere to the rules.
So they give us broccoli in a bag with a cheeseburger and some peaches and ranch dressing.
never has a crime against food been so blatant.[/QUOTE]
Lucky you, getting cheese on your burger, it's been 10 years since i last saw cheese on a school burger, not even hyperbole, at least 10. Our school has been taking away important things such as desserts, cheeses and most recently, the bread has been swapped with this awful sawdust based sweet loaf that is absolutely wretch inducing. It wouldn't be below our school's ways to go this far.
You can get all the ice cream you want if you can pay for it though.
[QUOTE=Grimhound;42910592]Potatoes are a starch. The douchebags could at least learn their food groups.[/QUOTE]
nope because potato lobbyists didn't create the food pyramid.
seriously they don't even need a grain.
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