Preschooler's homemade lunch replaced with nuggets

[Comet]

And in our latest installment from the 'Face-Palm Files.'

A four-year-old girl had her lunch her mother prepared removed and given chicken nuggets instead because the meal was apparently not up to the U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines.

What was this horrible, awful and unhealthy lunch? A turkey sandwich, chips, banana and apple juice.

The meal was discovered when a state agent went around checking the children's' lunches.

Are you kidding me? Schools should not have the authority to dictate what a child eats regarding what they bring from home. That is a major overstep of their authority, in my humble opinion.

Perhaps the schools in this country should spend more time locating and removing pedophile teachers as opposed to worrying about what a mother packs their child for lunch.

If these schools want to be so involved in parenting and wish to make personal decisions regarding our children, let them send checks to help raise them.

Besides, a turkey sandwich, chips, a banana and apple juice seems pretty normal to me. Would rather my child eat that than chicken nuggets.

Schools these days never cease to make me scratch my head.

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.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/1...de-lunch-replaced-with-nuggets/#ixzz1mRZqMvpg

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[DodgeFB]

Food police will soon try to stop fat people from buying fast food. I may be wrong, but I suspect there is a plan being worked on already.

 

[Kingdom]

Food police will soon try to stop fat people from buying fast food. I may be wrong, but I suspect there is a plan being worked on already.

Wouldn't that be the same as discrimination? I hope there's a law against that in the US.

 

[DodgeFB]

Wouldn't that be the same as discrimination? I hope there's a law against that in the US.

Yes there are discrimination laws in the US. But some people that never had a weight problem think overweight=lazy. And since many overweight people have health problems are looked down on as a drain on health care.

In my life I have been overweight and underweight. So I am just a mess.

 

[Kingdom]

Yes there are discrimination laws in the US. But some people that never had a weight problem think overweight=lazy. And since many overweight people have health problems are looked down on as a drain on health care.

In my life I have been overweight and underweight. So I am just a mess.

I think it would be horrendous to demand of people who are overweight to pick out a certain item from the shelf, instead the item they had preferred. I think the consequence is going to be unnecessary bureaucracy and the money the healthcare system would use on treating an overweight patient, you'd probably find that wasted in the bureaucracy to keep overweight people from consuming certain products.

Haha, good way of looking at it