Title: 'Lunch lady' lobby joins GOP to fight Obama's school lunch rules - Los Angeles Times
Headings: ‘Lunch lady’ lobby joins GOP to fight Obama’s school lunch rules
‘Lunch lady’ lobby joins GOP to fight Obama’s school lunch rules
Evan Halper
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In St. Charles Parish just outside New Orleans, where more than half the public school children qualify for free or reduced-priced school meals, the fluffy biscuit that long enticed them to eat a hot breakfast has been effectively outlawed. The children look at its whole grain replacement with bewilderment, said Teresa Brown, the school’s director of childhood nutrition. “We are struggling to find a biscuit they are happy with,” she said. “ It is grainy. The texture is strange to them.... These kids don’t eat these things at home. We don’t have anything in our cafeteria anymore that is white. They haven’t had time to adapt.” Nutrition advocates say they sympathize, but they point to studies suggesting that after the expected bumpy rollout, schools are figuring out how to make the new menus work. Consumption of healthy food is on the rise, supporters of the program say.