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Remember back when Gov. Blago asked for a 
junk food ban in elementary and middle schools? Fine & dandy, we say. The Illinois State Board of Education has now proposed some rules that focus on nutritional content of foods rather than broad categories of food. Excellent. But the thing that seems messed up is that the rules would ban whole milk and would allow some chips like Baked Cheetos. Especially when right now all chips are not allowed at all under the board's current definition of junk food.
This is how they figure it: Junk food will be defined as food with calories from fat exceeding 35%, calories from saturated fat exceeding 10% and total calories exceeding 200 for an individual package. Going by those guidelines, whole milk just has too much fat content, but baked chips make it through.
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The introduction of Baked Cheetos to the marketplace is my most favoritest thing that happened in 2005.
This, of course, has nothing to do with your lovely post, CP, but I just can't find fault in anything involving Cheetos, baked or otherwise.
Hail Ye, Fake Orange Cheese Substance, Hail Ye! Considering my very first bout of food poisoning was at the tender age of 7 and came about due to the milk during our milk break--I say run with the Cheetos Blago, run with the Cheetos!
So.. drink reduced-fat or skim milk. What's the deal? Last time I was in a school cafeteria, they were serving 2% (IIRC)
I was going to make a comment, but I keep getting distracted by the MSNBC ad on the right.
BGH is a bitch people.
That's not screwed up. It's sensible. Whole milk isn't good for you. And Baked Cheetos aren't so bad, it turns out.
Yeah, I'm not really sure kids in school should be drinking *whole* milk, either.
And what sucks about that MSNBC Ad is that it just takes you to the MSNBC Page, not the story! :)
Kids at age 2 should be drinking 2% milk. Kids over 3 should be drinking 1% milk. Schhol age kids should be drinking skim milk.
Sounds like the junk food nazis have this one just right.
my baked cheetos diet begins TODAY
no chips are allowed now? my first grader's just collectively wolfed down an ass-load of baked lays last week, courtesy of the school. they get cookies, too, which just isn't good for anybody with all that sugar in that tiny, already uncontrolable body. that would actually be a really useful guideline for determining if something is too unhealthy to serve in school. one of the worst things about over-processed foods is the added sugar, which contributes to obesity, too.