*Schools Pulling Healthy Lunches Because Students Won’t Eat Them*****

August 28, 2013 by UPI - United Press International,
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WASHINGTON, (UPI) –  School systems across the United States say students
aren’t eating the federally funded lunches served under a program touted by
first lady Michelle Obama.****

Saying they are losing money throwing out uneaten food, a number of school
districts are revising the menus designed to fight childhood obesity, CBS
News reported Wednesday.****

The program requires that lunches include fresh fruit, vegetable and whole
grains. Calories must be limited to 850 for high school students, 700 for
middle school and 650 for elementary.****

The healthy food choices have drawn complaints by school districts from
California to New York. One official in Kentucky said students told him the
food tasted like “vomit.”****

About 100,000 school districts signed up for the program, fewer than
expected.****

The Laguna Beach, Calif., school district says it’s not dropping out of the
program, as others have done. Instead, it has instituted monthly taste
tests and will sell sandwiches.****

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, said it
didn’t expect a widespread defection from the lunch plan because most
school districts already met the program’s guidelines.****


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