Michelle's Diet Tossed Into The Trash

It should come as no surprise to any parent that fruits and vegetables for young kids end up in the trash

Federal micromanagement of the federal school lunch program wasting a lot of taxpayer cash

Michelle Obama has been in the forefront of healthy eating to extol

Fruits, vegetables, low fat meats and grains whole

But if the kids will not eat what the feds demand the schools serve

Here is an idea that might our tax dollars conserve

The feds have absolutely no business enforcing menus for kids

Especially when the selections from the trays the children quickly rid

A better way would be to give parents the cash and let them buy what goes into their kids’ lunch sacks

From memories of school days at lunch I could hardly wait to it unpack

Sometimes very rarely my mother would select something from a taste standpoint did not belong

But there was always a great chance to trade the item to make the lunch right by trading the wrong

But if the feds insists on being the overreaching diet big brother

And parents’ rights in food choices completely smother

Do what my parents watching their budget used to me always state

“Eat your vegetables in you want to see some meat and desert on your plate

Food is too precious you my son to never, ever waste

Think of the starving kids in India who do not have enough food to even taste!”

© August 28, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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