Dear Editor,
It’s time to stop and reconsider the actions we use to guide our children!
The Canadian Health and Food Guide is being taken to the far extreme when parents after supplying their children a lunch, which they thought was healthy; but did not exactly comply to the Food Guide, were fined ten dollars by their daycare.
Kristen Bartkiw of Rossburn, Man. sent her two children a lunch of homemade roast beef, potatoes, carrots, an orange and milk. But, according to, “The Little Cub’s Den” Daycare her lunch did not meet the Food Guide. It lacked a grain product and therefore violated the province’s school lunch policy.
She was fined $5 for each of her children and then the Daycare workers had to supplement the needed Ritz crackers before the children were allowed to finish their lunches.
The Daycare workers deemed the original homemade lunch as unbalanced; balanced referring to full compliance to Canada’s enforceable Food Guide, so the lunch was supplemented and this resulted in the fine.
However, if the lunch had contained a microwave Kraft Macaroni Dinner, a hot dog, a package of fruit twists, a cheese string and a juice box, it would have been acceptable.
What’s next, lunch box seizures, detention for non-compliance?
W. Krechuniak
