Grits are back. Yum. (and pass the Tortillas)

the NYTimes reports that Trumpieboy has rolled back the Obama school lunch rules:

 Under the new rules, only half of the grain products on the cafeteria’s weekly menu must be whole grain-rich....

The Trump administration asserts in the new rules that administrators have struggled to find food products that meet these standards while also pleasing students. Schools have been able to request exemptions from the rules if they demonstrate financial hardship, and the government has said the most popular requests have been for regional staples like grits in the South and tortillas in the Southwest.

yum! Grits!

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and really yummie: Cheeze grits


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as for Tortillas, my sons were Colombianos, and came from an area where they grew potatoes and did not eat tortilla or TexMex food until they moved to the USA.

However, my son's wife is Mexican American and when I visited, we had tortillas with every meal.


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 actually I was in favor of the healthy food for kids in schools; The problem was that they overdid it.

 When we worked with our diabetics in the IHS, we didn't give them exotic foods: We gave out recipes on how to change the ingredients of commonly eaten food, to make the food lower in fat and simple carbohydrates, to be more healthy.

for example, one favorite food on the "res" was Indian tacos: Made with frybread (dough that is fried in lard. Yum).

FryBread is originally Navajo, but is a favorite all over: Our elders used to sell Indian Tacos using fry bread instead of tortillas once a week to raise money for the Elderly center.




first, you need a recipe on how to make healthier fry bread from NewsOk:

Substituting half the white flour with whole-wheat flour to increase the fiber content, because the fiber in whole grains helps reduce cholesterol in the body. Substituting fat-free milk for the water called for, to add calcium to the nutrition profile and to give extra flavor to the finished product. Using canola oil instead of lard in which to fry the bread. Canola oil is a mono unsaturated fat, while lard is a saturated fat that is not heart healthy.

Here is the "healthy" version of the recipe for the stuffing, using low fat cheese and lots of veggies.