[GCFL-discuss] Mickey D

Wed Jun 2 09:05:40 CDT 2004

Yolanda,
  My mom works at our local high school so going through school I had
access to everything that was going out for the day.  It is not what is
on the menu that you have to worry about it is the extra's.  I don't
know what they serve at your school but here there is the Pizza line
where you get the Pizza or calzone, milk, juice, fruit (all on the menu)
but there is also french fries, Mozerella sticks, and a bunch of other
fat fried items.  They also have the Hot lunch line (what ever it is for
the day) and you can get the same fat fried items. There is the salad
line (the only place you can not get the greasy food!) and now they have
a deli line where you can get a fresh made sandwich & soup (also another
healthy line).  As for the fruitopia replacing soda it is equally as bad
for you as soda it just has no carbonation.  It might even have more
sugar than soda.  No matter how hard we try there is alway a way for the
not so healthy foods to be gotten.

Eric
NY

>>> <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> 6/2/2004 9:38:48 AM >>>
Dave, I am sure that if my kids are out and about they will buy sugar
and
junk.  I let my kids get a candy at the checkout on the weekends, but
at
home I have apples and bananas, etc in the house.  Vegetables, we have
a
garden.  I don't deprive them of things they really like such as
sherbert
(they don't know it's not the same as fattening ice cream) and every
now and
then we go out for pizza and a movie.  I do however cook (well my
husband
cooks) a meal every night with vegetables, meat and a side such as
mashed
potatoes or rice.  I do not allow them to drink soda (unless of course
we
are at a birthday party and that is all they are offering).  They get
juice,
milk, or lemonade.  In the schools in my area they have taken the pop
machines out and replaced them with Fruitopia machines, and there
aren't any
vending machines that sell candy.  For the most part we are safe.  I
know
what they serve in the elementary school for breakfast and lunch
because
they send me a menu every month.  I don't mind what my kids eat there. 
I
believe that the high school would probably be different.  When I was
in
High School we had three lines, the regular hot lunch line, the pizza
line
and the salad line.  I don't know what they are serving these days,
though.
:)
Yolanda Cruz
Office Manager/Executive Assistant
Business for Life
7210 East State Street
Rockford, IL  61108
Phone: (815) 391-9241
Fax: (815) 227-5757
www.businessforlife.biz 
www.home.earthlink.net/~vanidosa27 
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From: <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net>
To: "Yolanda" <Yolanda.c at businessforlife.biz>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Mickey D

> Say what you will, I work very close to kids and see what they eat.
Left
to
> their own, most kids will go for sugar and junk food regardless of
were
they
> are on the social ladder or what mom thinks they should be eating...
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net>
> To: "Shirley Heit" <sdmheit at verizon.net>
> Cc: "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List"
<gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Mickey D
>
>
> > I like Yolanda's reply. The resentment factor comes in whenever
anyone
> > tries to deal with any social problem by saying there is one reason
for
> > one problem and one answer. That is not so in any field of human
> > behavior, from how to raise children to why adults eat what they
eat.
> > There are fifty-eleven different kinds of children, raised in
> > fifty-eleven different kinds of families, located in  fifty-eleven
> > different kinds of neighborhoods, attending  fifty-eleven
different
kinds
> > of schools, with  fifty-eleven different kinds of friends, and to
fix a
> > widespread social deficiency or excess requires  fifty-eleven
different
> > kinds of programs applied with flexibility and respect. It doesn't
always
> > take a lot of money, but a lot of approaches.
> >
> > I don't go for expecting McDonald's to serve nutritious foods.
McDonald's
> > serves what they specialize in, and I wouldn't go there for a
nutritious
> > salad. There is nothing wrong with McDonald's food either -- unless
you
> > make it your home away from home instead of an occasional night
out.
> > Actually, I like my own hamburgers I make at home better.
McDonald's was
> > a good deal when I was 16, and they advertised you can get lunch
for a
> > dollar with change back.
> >
> > Siarlys
> >
> >
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