Y'know, I don't know what other baggage Oliver carries, but honestly? If that food shown was what that family ate regularly? It's not about their weight or size. It's about poor nutrition. Ditto the school lunches.

We always had skim milk. 1980-1993.

I added a sauce made of soy sauce, crystalized ginger (one piece finely chopped), mustard and hot sauce.

Ooh, that sounds awesome. I'll remember it for when CSA season comes around (when we eat lots of stirfries!)

It was pretty horrifying to me that a classroom full of kindergarteners couldn't name common fruits and vegetables, though.

I am now regretting my Friday CSA pickup, given how many Fridays I will be out of town. Woes!

It was pretty horrifying to me that a classroom full of kindergarteners couldn't name common fruits and vegetables, though.

Well, the potatoes and tomatoes were pretty bad, but I'm not sure how many kids that age could identify beets. And we didn't see them try apples or bananas or carrots or other things kids more commonly eat.

Ooh, that sounds awesome. I'll remember it for when CSA season comes around (when we eat lots of stirfries!)

It was really good! I'd been looking at that jar of crystalized ginger for a while thinking, "But I don't really want ginger snaps" when it occurred to me that I could use it in a stir fry sauce. I just took one chunk of ginger and chopped it up, though again it was just enough sauce for JZ's meal.

Oh yeah, there was a little honey in there too.

eta: Scrappy, insent.

frozen or canned vegetables, fries and tater tots, instant mashed potatoes, cheese, ground beef, and chicken patties

Too many potatos (and if the gov is regulating too many carbs per lunch that's deffinately bad), probably meat on the fatty side... but that's not sounding mind-bendingly horrible to me if you can add other things.

Then again, Jamie making chicken nuggets didn't sound too bad to me either. The "nasty" parts of meat, if you're going to eat meat, should get eaten too. And they always have, that's why the world has sausage and chitterlings an the like. Of course, there are more and less healthy ways to make unappealing foods appealing. But once its appealing (as long as it was made so in one of your healthier ways) why care if it was once un?

If that food shown was what that family ate regularly? It's not about their weight or size. It's about poor nutrition.

But the "solution" was for Jamie to buy them a week's worth of groceries and leave them a bunch of recipes. No mention of how long the grocery shopping took, whether he had to go to multiple stores or just one, how long the cooking took, or how much everything cost. And then he visited later in the week and told the camera that he's suspicious about whether they're actually following his rules, while the camera zoomed in on fast food soda cups and ominous music played.

Oh yeah, there was a little honey in there too.

Is that still vegan then?

The USDA regulations are treated as some silly rules that he's trying to get around, not as federal rules that the school has to follow or else they don't get food at all.

What, besides the absurd number of carbs per meal, are they requiring?