03.03.10: Nutrition

Today I went to my children's elementary school to have lunch - early, of course - with them. When I went through the line, my kindergartner, aged 5, grabbed this. I quickly corrected him, took the plate and put it back under the window and instructed him to choose something other than dessert.

Then the cafeteria worker let me know that I was out of line and that my son had, in fact, selected a fruit - pineapple - as part of his meal. That I needed to understand that the next shelf up was the dessert row, this was from the fruit and salad shelf.

To my digging, the pineapple puff - aptly named, I might add - might have had some pineapple in there, but the bulk of the 'fruit' was marshmallows and whipped cream. Quite nutritious; I hope the new White House effort, led by First Lady Michelle Obama, places the current school lunch realm in its sites...