City Bans Homemade Desserts at School Bake Sales

Perhaps nutritional advocates are taking it too far. In terms of eating, I agree with the Jamie Oliver philosophy over the calorie count dogma. That is it's okay to eat anything that is scratched-cooking. If we look at ethnic cooking and how other countries and cultures eat, we don't see the same levels of health-related problems like obesity, hearth disease, and diabetes that exist in the US. I applaud the city for banning the vending machine which contains mostly high fructose corn syrup products but banning bake sales is sending the wrong message to young people. There is nothing wrong with real sugar except that manufacturers choose the cheaper alternative (HFCS) for America.

Low-income kids would be so much better off if they just had more access to real food. And as for the meatless monday, it's a good idea but again I would go with 5 days of real food over this attack on meat.

Gee, you grim Kathleen Grimm: are you trying to be the next MeMe Roth? You control freaks seem to think you're the smartest people on earth, but in reality, you're only the most annoying.

This Food Police thing is really going too far. Besides isn't what kids eat when they're NOT in school more of a problem? Think about the number of Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle and McDonald's all over the city. It's about education and changing habits.

Amazing, you can pump kids with milk from the cafeteria filled with growth hormone, but introduce a cupcake into the mix and suddenly everyone's obese.

Maybe fat kids are fat because of the way they are raised and poor impulse control. Maybe the other 70% of kids who aren't fat should be able to enjoy things like pizza parties and vanilla frosted cake without childless bleeding heart liberals screaming about calorie counts.

Wait til Doritos hears about this. They'll want a cut of the action.

OH YEAH packaged doritos soooo much better than a homebaked muffin because it has a f*kkin number on it. GET A CLUE a** holes in the Guvmnt.

Don't take the bake out of bake sales! Where else in this city can you buy a plate full of homemade brownies for 5-10 bucks?

David Greenblatt, a senior, told City Room. “Soon I’ll be in college, and I won’t have Mommy or Daddy or Chancellor Klein sitting right next to me saying, ‘Hey David, don’t eat that, its too high in calories.’”

yeah but in ten years you'll be asking uncle sam for medicare money for your hypertension, diabetes, high cholestorol and crying about how you couldn't control yourself.

...and calling it "diabeetus". And parking in a handicap spot just because you're fat.

Ridiculous.

This city is starting to lose its concept of reality. Shorter parades, now a bake sale content prohibition along with meatless Mondays. KNOCK IT OFF BLOOMBERG!

Force the fatties to run 10 miles a day before or after school. That way they pay for infringing on other people's personal space.

They might have to now that they've lost their free metrocards. Kidz be losing some weight now.

Doritos. Linden cookies. But nothing without a calorie count. Right.

This just in - kids more than 10 pounds overweight no longer allowed on buses or trains; forced to jog to school.

They are totally missing the point. The processed foods they are offering as alternatives to home baked goods are filled with chemicals, preservatives and tons of sodium. These are the real culprits of childhood obesity as well as the heart disease, diabetes etc etc that plague American society. Let them eat cake god dammit - but teach them how to eat (using moderation and a well-balanced diet).

mmmm...carrot stick sale! How do they expect to raise any money with shit like zuccinis and celery sticks? Maybe parents should take the time to be teaching their kids how not to become a fat ass and other wouldn't have to suffer such a blasphemous "bake sale".

It sucks to be a kid these days, apparently.

Stupid, they will be able to enforce this rule.

You gotta be kidding me with this. No homebaked goods at school bake sales because they don't disclose the calorie content??? That is really stupid. I hope the next mayor overturns this rule on Day 1.

An unintended consequence of this regulation is that kids and parents still dont know what is really going in the foods they eat unless its presented to them in 3pt helvetica on the inside fold of plastic wrapper.

This rule just keeps small, mom and pop bakers from having opportunities to provide fresh, healthy options to the kids. But at least Frito-Lay (Doritos) and Kellogs (Nurti-Grain) get a chance to promote their products.

Exactly. Home baked anything is better than packed crap that's packed with preservitives. Sure there might be more butter in grandma's cookies, but thats why you don't eat more than two. I never buy packaged stuff. If you have to put in the effort to make something from scratch and wait for it to bake, it teaches you that food is something to be savored and appriciated- not just the instant gratification of jamming anything that's filling into your mouth.

Maybe they should see bake sales as an opportunity to teach childen about making their own food that is healthy and the pleasure that can come from cooking and knowing exactly what is going into your body.

It's really sending the wrong message to tell them that everything they eat should be manufactured and sealed in a bag.

Can anyone say WET BLANKET?

Draconian and insane.

What gets outlawed next? Home cooking?

It's not like schools are holding bake sales every day.

It's not like they have bake sales every day! Just because some kids are monster-sized now, everyone gets punished.

How can it be a bake sale if they can't sell anything they BAKED?!?!

Baked Doritos?

I can't imagine processed foods being better for you than homebaked. Calorie count is not the end all be all. I would rather have a cookie with double the amount of calories than have a nutri-grain bar comprised of chemicals, plastic and dye.

Also forcing kids to not eat certain foods will not fight obesity... They will just find somewhere else to get their double chocolate brownie fix. Why not educate them in healthy eating and an active lifestyle.

For the same reasons why sex ed programs never tell you about appropriate condom sizes, easier to brush over the basics than to get into the nitty gritty only for parents to complain.

This is damn silly. The problem with these store bought goodies are that they're filled with preservatives and things even adults can't pronounce. Schools really need to get out of the nutrition business.

Blackberry only?

Strawberry is not going to like that at all, and he's known to go apeshit.

Damn I was really hoping this was going to be drug filled brownies and cookies.