Blame it on the nuggets. If the preschool child in North Carolina had been offered almost anything else to supplement her supposedly nutritionally deficient lunch, the outrage would have been considerably less. But chicken nuggets? Most of the grandparents that I know are appalled at our grandchildren's predilection for those chunks of fat and sodium, although most of us have been guilty of buying or serving them.
In case you missed the report out of North Carolina, a worker in a preschool program supposedly checked a child's home-packed lunch, deemed it unacceptable and sent the tot through the lunch line instead. The preschooler subsequently told her mom that she had had three chicken nuggets for lunch. The latest statement from the school district involved, as reported on NBC, is that the dust-up was due to "miscommunication between a staff member and the child." Nonetheless, the story has caused quite a ruckus in the blogosphere, pushing all sorts of hot buttons about government intervention in family affairs. Many commentators linked the kerfuffle to First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign for more healthful foods for kids, although the rule invoked was of state, not federal origin.
Personally, I think the North Carolina incident was probably a misunderstanding, and I applaud most efforts to promote good foods for our kids. We're working on getting pink slime out of our burgers, and Chick-fil-A now offers grilled chicken nuggets with only 20 calories a pop. Now that's a chicken nugget that even a grandparent could love.
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Source: http://grandparents.about.com/b/2012/02/17/nuggets-not-a-nutritious-lunch.htm
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