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In New York City public schools, chocolate cake is now contraband. Here’s a sampling of what’s allowed to be sold at bake sales now:
Whole Grain Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts
Doritos Cool Ranch
Reduced Fat chips
Chewy Quaker Oats Peanut Butter/Chocolate Chip granola bar
Frito Lay Baked Cheddar Sour Cream Chips
Linden’s Butter Crunch cookies
All the fruits and veggies you want!
Forget making your famous seven-layer bars or empanadas for your child’s school fundraiser. The city that cut our fat intake, and wants to curb the salt in our food, is monitoring bake sales.
A regulation passed last month bans home-baked goods from public school bake sales. Health and education officials say they’re combating an obesity epidemic. But parents are outraged that prepackaged snack items like Doritos and Pop-Tarts are A-OK.
“This isn’t a natural way to relate to food,” said Courtney McDowell, a mother of two at PS 364 in the East Village. “We’re teaching children to reach for packaged goods instead of to cook. That’s not healthy.”
Single-serving snacks with under 200 calories are the only things allowed at school bake sales.
School officials say they just don’t know how much butter or salt parents put in home-baked goodies.
Bake sales for clubs and teams are more important than ever as schools face tighter budgets. On Thursday, parents, kids and teachers rallied outside City Hall to protest the new rule.
Members of the PTA are allowed to hold a no-holds-barred bake sale — selling whatever they want — once a month, as long as they’re well away from the cafeteria. But school teams and clubs must stick to the packaged stuff at all times.
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In the July MMMpod, Young Veins talk about breaking away from Panic! at the Disco, Keith Lockhart talks about Buckwheat Zydeco throwing the Boston Pops for a loop, Zooey Deschanel talks about how Roy Orbison inspired a She & Him song, Derek Miller of Sleigh Bells talks about how awesome Funkadelic is, and we talk about how awesome Jimmy Cliff is, who in turn talks about Sam Cooke and divine intervention. An explosive show for July! Oh yeah, and we also test your knowledge of America songs in the MMMPod medley.
