Hearing Notice SR27 Healthy Meals In Schools

[Office of Sen. Ruderman]

THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair
Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice Chair

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Senator Josh Green, Chair
Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Vice Chair

NOTICE OF HEARING
DATE: Friday, March 22, 2013
TIME: 1:45 PM
PLACE: Auditorium
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A
SR 27

Status & Testimony
ENCOURAGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO DEVELOP NUTRITIONALLY-SOUND PUBLIC SCHOOL MEAL PLANS THAT GIVE STUDENTS THE OPTION OF A VEGETARIAN ENTRÉE AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. EDU/HTH, WAM

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

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[unknownjulie]

Just my two cents but the meals here are far healthier in the schools than on the mainland. I have a very picky eater who would manage to drink gatorade and all kinds of other nasty stuff at school in Texas and cannot get his hands on it at all here! Too expensive. He has grown 3 inches in the last year at least. Also, the teachers at my other son's preschool actually make him eat veggies and drink milk- which would never happen in Texas. IN fact, I said, "oh he'll drink extra milk at home" (chocolate milk) and his teacher refused to stop forcing him to drink it at school. So, then I had the choice of having him switch schools because of this, but I thought that was pretty stupid, so I just supported the teacher and told him "you're almost in kindergarten so just deal". The main point I am making is that the people here actually care! They are not lackadasical about food here! Notice there are very few overweight kids here! Food is too expensive to be taken for granted.

[dayna]

I actually also like the school lunch food served here. There is a vegetarian option at keaau high, which my daughter uses all the time. She gets fruit every day and they don't "make" her take a milk like they did in Alaska. We don't "do" milk in our home.

I've seen far worse school lunches. I'm sure it can ALWAYS be better but we are very happy with the options here.

Dayna

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