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A mother is outraged after school officials told her 4-year-old daughter that
her home-packed lunch was not healthy enough to eat. What was so unhealthy about her lunch?
Trace Gallagher reported that a lunch inspector at the school told the girl she couldn’t eat
her turkey sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice. Instead, providing the girl with a
USDA-approved lunch with the following guidelines: one serving of meat, one serving of grains,
and two servings of fruit or vegetables.

When the girl returned home from school, her unopened lunch contained a note from the school
saying that her lunch didn’t meet the guidelines and a $1.25 bill for the replacement lunch.
The mom was outraged and anonymously wrote to the local newspaper and called a state representative.
The North Carolina representative called the school which apologized, because in fact the lunch
did meet all the USDA requirements.

It was due to budget cuts. The regular lunch inspector job was eliminated. The job is now done by a hobo, whose other responsibilities include smoking the cigarette butts left outside by the students.