Country: USA (Washington DC)
Contents: Cinnamon Toast Crunch, cookie, chocolate milk and orange juice.
Source: Ed B. http://betterdcschoolfood.blogspot.com/2010/04/whats-for-breakfast-sugar-strategies.html
Notes: The Cinnamon Toast Crunch contains 9 grams of sugar, the Goldfish Giant Grahams has 6 grams of sugar, the chocolate milk has 26 grams of sugar, the four-ounce container of orange juice has 13 grams of sugar. That's 54 grams of sugar in total or 13.5 teaspoons.
Shockingly typical.
ReplyDeleteThis is very typical. For some reason, the kids are FORCED to take the Goldfish grahams, along with their regular breakfast, because of there needing to be certain food groups offered at every meal. I don't understand how they can throw something disgusting and sugary out there and expect everyone to go along with it, but the whole country is.
ReplyDeleteApparently there is no protien requirement for school breakfasts. I wonder what the requirements ARE then, if any!
ReplyDeletePrepackaged nastiness.
ReplyDeleteI had to FIGHT to get the school to not give my kids chocolate or strawberry milk. All the milk is low fat - to combat childhood obesity don't you know - but loaded with HFCS and corn syrup. Fortunately, their new school is much better about food allergies.
ReplyDeletePerhaps somebody thinks Giant Grahams Goldfish are protein ?
ReplyDeleteMy grandson is in the first grade and came to stay with me a month while his mother was working out of town. When the school called me and said his lunch account was overdrawn by $23.00 I requested a print out of what he was eating. He was going to daycare in the morning and eating breakfast there which was cereal on Monday, Pop tarts on Tuesday, Waffles on Wednesday, Biscuits on Friday and then he was eating at school too. He was always choosing apple juice instead of milk which contains 39g of sugar and the school breakfast was just as bad as the daycare’s. The only protein offered is in the milk which he never chose. He had on average 84g of sugar before going to class and at lunch he chose fruit juice, cookies and/or ice cream almost every day adding another 75g of sugar on top of the standard lunch. The standard lunch has a form of potato (French fries or mashed) 3 times a week and fruit cups soaked in corn syrup at least twice a week. When added together he was having 150-200g of sugar every single day during school and expected to sit in a chair!!! His behavior isn’t good and he misses his recess most of the week as a result. The school has my daughter convinced he has ADHD instead of a sugar/ triglyceride overdose. I have pointed out to her that we have type 1 and type 2 diabetes on our side of the family and she had a cousin that went into a diabetic coma and died at the age of 12. But both of his parents care more about their jobs than taking care of a child. And it hurts to say that about my own daughter but it’s true. And it's a sad world when elementry schools have turned into buffet lunch rooms where a child of seven years chooses what he gets to eat. BTW blow pops were supposed to be baned... this school still sells them on Friday's.
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