Think back: Can you imagine school
lunch with no chocolate milk?
Not exact matches
Iv» e been doing the 21 day sugar detox so I have been doing a smoothie
with yogurt, almond butter, coconut butter, unsweetened
chocolate,
milk and one banana and it's been keeping me full till
lunch.
Even the latest dietary guidelines for Americans urge people to avoid the full fat, and following this lead, school
lunch programs provide only low - fat
milk and no whole
milk at all, even though they do allow
chocolate skim
milk with its added sugars.
Eliminating
chocolate milk was also associated
with 6.8 % fewer students eating school
lunches, and although other factors were also involved, this is consistent
with the notion of psychological reactance.
Still, a powerful insight, consistent
with reactance theory, is that eliminating
chocolate milk could decrease the number of students ordering
lunches by 6.8 %.
When I let my kids buy school
lunch earlier this year, I reviewed the menu
with them and talked to them about what to choose, but they still ended up buying Tru Moo
chocolate milk and a hot dog.
The only a la carte items in elementary schools are: half - pint
milk (skim unflavored, 1 % unflavored, skim
chocolate)-- purchase to go
with lunch brought from home or purchase second
milk with meal.
A glass of low - fat
chocolate milk with a healthy
lunch is harmless.
I wanted the slop of mac & cheese that other kids bought
with their
lunch cards, the pizza slice they tucked away on special Tuesdays, and above all, that papery container of
chocolate milk.
I see kids eat a fraction of their
lunch day after day, and usually just the Cheetos, fruit by the foot, and
chocolate milk that is sent along
with the sandwich and apple.
While many clearly understand that a
lunch tray piled
with microwaved pizza, fruit in heavy syrup,
chocolate milk, and pretzels is a far cry from a nutritious meal, they have a hard time imagining a suitable — and realistic — alternative.
Let's say a child has the following food in a day: for breakfast, 1 cup of Kellogg's frosted flakes and 1 cup of Nesquick
chocolate milk; for
lunch, a PB&J sandwich
with 2 slices of Arnold's whole grain bread and 2 tablespoons each of Jif peanut butter and Welches grape jelly, along
with three Oreo cookies; for dinner, Panera kids mac & cheese, Greek salad, and a
chocolate chip cookie.
We offer salad, fresh fruit,
chocolate skim
milk and one percent white
milk with every
lunch.
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Here are the top beverages kids want
with their
lunch, from an AOL Kids Online survey of 12,110 kids ages 7 through 12: Soft drink, 44 percent Juice, 21 percent Water, 18 percent
Chocolate milk, 14 percent Milk, 3 per
milk, 14 percent
Milk, 3 per
Milk, 3 percent
WEEKDAY Breakfast: 3/4 cup fruit free muesli
with 1/4 cup low fat Greek yoghurt, 4 strawberries and 125 ml skim
milk Morning tea: Banana and regular skim latte
Lunch: Beef salad
with roasted beetroot, sweet potato, capsicum, beans, baby spinach and avocado, plus carrot, celery, apple, ginger and kale juice Afternoon tea: Mixed nuts
with a piece of fruit Dinner: Grilled salmon
with 3/4 cup of dill risotto served
with steamed broccoli, carrot and green bean, plus 1 large square of dark
chocolate
WEEKEND Breakfast: Oatmeal
with 237 ml of rice
milk, peaches, walnuts,
with stevia and cinnamon sprinkled on top Morning tea: Optimal Cleanse shake
Lunch: Turkey wrap — brown rice tortilla, hummus, arugula, 113 g of ground turkey and avocado slices Afternoon tea: Dark
chocolate Optimal Protein Bar or rice crackers
with home - made garlic and olive hummus Dinner: Grilled halibut
with fresh - squeezed pink grapefruit juice, garlic, cilantro, grape seed oil and vegetable stir - fry
MEAL PLAN Breakfast Oats,
chocolate protein powder, skim
milk Snack Blueberries, organic low - fat natural yoghurt
Lunch Chicken breast, basmati rice and stir fry vegetables Snack Thin rice cakes
with natural peanut butter Dinner Turkey mince and fresh vegetable bolognaise
with Slim Pasta
Workout during
lunch (take 10 grams of branch chain amino acids) 1:00 pm 50 grams of protein powder
with 1 cup almond
milk (or water), 2 cups of Greek yogurt
with chocolate almonds and frozen blueberries, Turkey sandwich 6:00 pm Whatever my wife makes for dinner