Speakeasy forum: Remember give a donation to Obama as wedding gift?

Don't forget to make a donation to the Obama Presidential Library.

It could use some more shelves.

The motif is said to help remind one of what Obama has done for America.

It even has a grand dome and light well to give it that special finishing look it needs.

Yes America, you asked for Change, and you got it.
Hope however got up and walked out the back door of the bus.

with my "Food" post in it. It's not even the cost of "food" that's so much but what is spent on specialty items, luxuries, highly processed boxes and packages of high calorie, low nutrition food. Then there's the money wasted on canned and bottle sodas, which is flavored sugar water, some with calcium stripping phosphoric acid in them (colas mostly). Buy koolade powder and add sugar, it was good enough for our generation. Buy tea bags and make a pitcher of tea. Turn on a tap, water is still drinkable. All sorts of bulk items which can be stored and used fairly easy, even in an old freezer or refrigerator that doesn't run anymore to keep "creatures" from messing with it. The problem today is beggars CAN now be choosers and the govt is making the rest of us pay for it.

in my high school. I remember one being right outside the gym. Another was in the lunchroom. If there were others I don't remember them. I know there were times I needed a quick sugar lift after cross country or track practice was over.

I don't mind them cutting back on the fat, or items with high sugar calories, but in that case there's hardly any need to restrict how much they eat of what's available. If a kid had a cup of beans, a slice of cornbread, a 1/4 lb lean hamburger with 2 tbsp milk gravy, and an 8oz carton of whole milk, his total calorie consumption would be about (220+130+170+40+150)=710 calories without adding butter, oil, or other fats to the meal. The BMR for a 17 yr old male, who is 5'10" and weighs 175 pounds is almost 2000 calories needed per day. That's just to meet the standard requirement to maintain body weight for his age. Any activity of an exercise nature adds need for more calorie intake. Here's another BMR calculator, read the note there about it.

If they just have the right kind of food, cutting out the fat and high sugar amounts (like cake with icing) then the kids could eat all the wanted at lunch and it be almost impossible to gain weight.