Stumbled about this thread and couldn't resist to express my disbelief what Americans consider to be edible.
I saw the pictures of the public school "menues".....well guys, I lived about 4 years in India, pretty remote area, and as project manager I donated 1000 plates and cutlery to a local village school (of course with our engraved logo.), stainless Gujarati thali plates. I participated two times unannounced in their lunch to check if the kids actually got to use what I paid for, and I must say the dumbest public Indian village school has a three star restaurant compared to the shit I saw on this pictures.
Unbelievable.
Oh good, another full of shit dumb **** joins the thread.
Not only is your story a giant lie, you are also stupid.
Yall know ANYTHING bout cooking? The new regs do not outlaw good food you idiots, they mandate better ingredients.
Anyone who knows how to cook should be able make BETTER food with better ingredients than they previously cooked.
Now herein lies the rub, before these regs , school cafeteria workers weren't cooking, they were warming shit up. So , when the new regs took affect suddenly many schools were caught with kitchen workers who didn't know how to cook and thus they were trying to learn on the job and the results were some pretty awful food.
Don't let Stephanie fool you, she didn't quit because she objected to the new program, she either quit because she knew she couldn't cook, or she was fired for not being able to.
Let's take two versions of the same dish. One is premade , all you do is warm it up , the other is homemade.
First the pre made
Bertolli Chicken Alfredo Penne
Now the homemade version
http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/chickenalfredo-cc.pdf
Oh, it looks like this proves oh so many things that idiots believe wrong.
Serving size for both, 1 cup.
First let's talk calories
One idiot in particular on this board went on a rail about how schools couldn't serve cheesy sauce recipes to kids, well obviously this homemade recipe came right from the government's own website, meaning it meets ALL requirements, and in fact the homemade recipe has more calories per serving (345) than does the premade (255)
The difference is of course that in the case of the pre made , most of those calories are fat calories. 27 grams of fat for the premade 8.16 grams of fat for the homemade.
What about protein though, some of those kids need their protein.
Home made 29.71 grams of protein. Pre made. 24 grams. Oops, kids actually get more protein from the homemade.
What about sodium? Homemade 571.55 mgrams of sodium. That's quite a bit of sodium for one dish. Premade? 940 mgrams of sodium. Jesus 39% of the recommended daily intake for a person who eats 2000 calories a day.
I could, of course, go on right down the list and in EVERY case the homemade is more nutritious.
Does anyone here argue that it costs more to make something from scratch than it does to buy premade? Do I need to break it down?
Of course cooking it yourself is cheaper so onto taste
Which would YOU rather eat?
Go ahead, go look at the two items I compared and tell me which one you'd rather have on your dinner table.