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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Content: But a hotbed of liberal thought is not the first thing that comes to mind.” The new lunch rules are strict. Schools are being told to restock pantries with ingredients alien to many students’ palates. If children pass up the fruit, cafeteria workers in many cases can’t sell them a meal until they take some, leading schools to complain they are paying for produce that ends up in the garbage. There have been other growing pains. The number of meals sold took a steep drop with the introduction of the new rules, according to the Government Accountability Office. Advertisement
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.