I'm already on Boxer and Feinsteins (and most of Sacramento politicians) blocked email list (since about '95) -- good thing I have $10 unlimited long distance

Cali legislation is almost as ridiculous as the stuff FatBoy (Kennedy) brings up

Equal opportunity consumer -- I knew I liked U

there is no irony in my name.
i am an equal opportunity food consumer.
state board of eds gave suggestions to school boards (based on the law wording) and some districts followed those suggestions blindly, without (better) interpreting the law themeselves...add to that the prinicpals that further misinterpreted the board policy and tossed the baby with the bathwater to make for no more birthday parties cupcakes at school. how unAmerican. all imo.
kind of like the talking heads in sacramento, what are they trying to do shawn , i heard someting to the effect of "no trans fats in the brownies" bill. have fun with that vote, since your in cali!

if anyone wants to read the letter of the law the wellness policies are supposedly based upon, search these boards under wellness policy and you will find links to the 'food law'.

hehe -- I like the overall 'Wellness/ Health Law/Policy -- its the overboard policies that are Nazish.

“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.”
~Barry Goldwater


That's what I'm afraid of is the extremism by some schools, etc (and govt) on how I raise my children and live my life -- we eat healthy I dont need someone (or thing) telling me when and what I can cant eat or provide for my childs social settings (ie unhealthy snack s in moderation for parties)

I didn't realize the irony in your user name until now

if you read the federal law that the districts based their newfangled food policies on, you will see they dont ban donuts with dads and muffin with mom type food, but some districts went way overboard in their interpretation of the law, and wrote up a policy that stinks.
if you dont like yuor school food policy, go talk to the school board who wrote it up (with prinicpals and parent input, by the way) dont blame the 'food' law, the law has the right ideas and is not at all Nazish, imo, and is very flexible and leaves a lot open to interpretation. i think a lot of districts just didnt 'get it' when they drfted their policies, from all the policiies i have seen.

JHB;134065 wrote: "if you are going to serve that, let's have at least one healthy alternative - a chicken sandwhich or a salad, maybe. And let's think about portion size."

I can get behind that. But, I'm also in agreement with Shawn that banning any "party food" like sweets, etc. is going too far.