KidSmart List of School Industry Talking Points
”Removing Obstacles to Achieving Your Nutrition Goals”
- We cannot afford the changes: the cost is too high and we are not getting any additional re-imbursements from the government!
- The kids won’t eat healthy foods or real food and I cannot afford to replace high participation items on the menu with lower volume healthier alternatives!
- School District Food Services are not really causing the obesity problem; the parents at home are training kids and are responsible!
- Our vendors say it will cost too much to replace the oils and grain with non-processed or modified grains and oils!
- The foods we are servings are already meeting all of the guidelines and we have added our own stronger guidelines.
- This is just a fad how do we know these things are ready bad that is what they said when we switched to grains from fat.
- Whole foods don’t look at as good color, texture, smell, and overall appearance.
- Exercise is the real problem, they removed exercise in the classrooms and we see the obesity epidemic occurring in our children.
- The administration doesn’t have an education program in place or we have one from the dairy board.