Apparently the eating healthy craze is not going over well with schoolchildren in Chicago.  As Monica Eng writes at The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) are having trouble getting kids to eat the new healthier choices.  Eng writes, "CPS has met with all three reactions this school year, when it stopped serving daily nachos, Pop-Tarts and doughnuts and introduced healthier options at breakfast and lunch. But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day."  Seems like the kids are voting with their taste buds.  "If they're going to feed us healthy, they need to feed us something good that's healthy," said Mijoy Roussell, a sixth-grader at Claremont Academy who was skipping lunch in favor of a packet of candy. "This food is disgusting, which is why I'm not eating lunch."

In the 2010-11 school year, CPS "switched to menus featuring more whole-grain products, less sodium and a wider variety of vegetables. Most cereals offered have less than 10 grams of sugar per serving."  Seems the kids prefer "cookies and slushies".  Kate Adamnick who specializes in revamping institutional food operations is blaming it on adults.  "I am baffled and disappointed by the tendency of 21st century adults to give in to children's preferences when it comes to food," Adamick said. "We know that teens prefer pornography magazines over the classics, but we don't give them copies of Playboy in literature class. Adults are present in children's lives to be role models, disciplinarians and caretakers, not to be popular."

She does have a point, adults as role models does seem like a good idea.  Maybe the first lady should think of that the next time she goes on vacation or is hosting a party.