|
State nutrition police arrest N.C. preschooler's lunch
Story Date: 2/16/2012
| |
Source: Jack Duszynski, MEATINGPLACE, 2/15/12
A student enrolled in West Hoke (N.C.) Elementary’s preschool program was recently told her homemade lunch did not meet USDA guidelines. Instead, she was given chicken nuggets, and her mother a bill for $1.25, according to the Carolina Journal.
A North Carolina state employee inspected all student's lunches, and this student’s was one of several lunches that were replaced or amended. Law in North Carolina says that even lunches brought from home must comply with USDA guidelines and include one serving of meat, one serving of dairy, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables. Care providers are required to provide any missing element.
The student’s mother had packed a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice.
This should not have disqualified her lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child Development was quoted as saying.
But according to the student’s mother, whose name was not divulged, the battle over the quality of her daughter’s lunches has been ongoing for some time, the newspaper reported.
At press time, nobody at West Hoke Elementary or the DCD was able to comment to Meatingplace.
For more stories, go to http://www.meatingplace.com/.
|
|
|
|
