Wow...I didn't know my comment would spark such conversation! Unfortunately, this one parent has made things difficult. For two years we gave the kids lemon drops to suck on during STAR testing. This year that had to go. Other schools in the district still sell candy bars for camp, our school can't. Maybe if we did include some bagels and fruit along with the donuts we could make it work. I'll have to check policy though since we serve breakfast at school every morning. I think we'd have to feed everyone through that program instead which would put all of the work on our cafeteria staff. I'll check into it. Thanks for your input.
Critter - our policy gets stepped up every year for 3 years and it gets more stringent, but outside of school hours, we can still sell cotton candy from day one of the policy start.
PLUS this is the important thing: who is going to police what you serve, approve it, submit the nutrition facts from DD or other sources without labels, before you buy. they dont post them on thier boxes as do retail donuts.
i am sure there are store varieities that dont exceed the required 30% fat your state requires, you could alwasy buy those if you have a policy police in place (and its enforced).
good luck to all the label readers , will be quite an education for all these new guideleines!!
Well you got me curious...the proposed legislation for Michigan would ban among other things, food with mroe than 30% of their calories from fat. According to the Dunkin Donuts web site, a standard glazed donut has 38.8% of its calories from fat. I'm hoping that reasonableness prevails in the end and if this legislation ever gets out of committee, it is rewritten to allow things like DWD and other PTO food functions.
Critter, many states new policies for better foods do NOT prohibit donuts by any means...it may vary by state, but it is other things they are trying to abolish or reduce, but not pastries. they are more focuesd on the hi sugar drinks and foods of NO value, like hard candies /cotton candy, candy bars and stuff like that. but agian, you have to see your own states's woridng, and more importatnlty, what your district adopts.
i know we could still run DWD with no problems,,,,,,AND we have loopholes one is : the policy applies to funciotns DURING SCHOOL HOURS, so if your policiy forbids DWD, host it pre or post official school hours, or on a sat morning, and there you go! a solution to make everyone happy, Dads and policy enforcers alike!
"Why don't you present the idea as "Get Fat with Father" day where you have a buffet of deep fried high fat foods.
Then, you can negotiate down to donuts. :-P
The food is not the focus. Having Dads hang out at school is. You could just call it Dad's Days or something. "
and since when does food service have any say over PTO affairs? it really is just the one vote of the parent who happens to also be in food svc.
whats all the fuss? just do it/vote on it. see what happens.
getting dads involved is more important than getting a few extra calories into the kids. probably theyll be so excited to have dads at school that their metabolism will rise up to get rid of the extra calories!! DWD DontWaitDoit
Originally posted by <speechmom>: I would LOVE to try this idea. Unfortunately, our district's Director of Child Nutrition Services is a parent at our school so it would never get approved.
I din't see where the Food Services Director being a parent makes a difference.
If it's against policy, you couldn't do it anyway.
If s/he is just a nutritional fascist, s/he still only gets one PTO vote, right?
Why don't you present the idea as "Get Fat with Father" day where you have a buffet of deep fried high fat foods.
Then, you can negotiate down to donuts. :-P
The food is not the focus. Having Dads hang out at school is. You could just call it Dad's Days or something.
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