{"id":19488,"date":"2013-11-20T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19488"},"modified":"2013-11-21T15:39:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T20:39:01","slug":"big-government-comes-to-little-kids%e2%80%99-lunch-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19488\/big-government-comes-to-little-kids%e2%80%99-lunch-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Government Comes to Little Kids\u2019 Lunch Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Bartkiw thought she provided her two children with wholesome, filling meals when she sent them to daycare with lunch boxes filled with roast beef, potatoes, carrots, oranges and milk. The government, however, didn\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n<p>Bartkiw, who lives in rural Manitoba, Canada, was fined $10 for providing her kids with a lunch that was not a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/mom-gives-kids-homemade-lunch-school-forces-them-to-ea-1466822586\" target=\"_blank\">balanced meal according to the Canadian Food Guide<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Parents packing their children\u2019s lunches are required to include \u201cone milk, one meat, one grain and two fruits\/vegitables.\u201d The lunches Bartkiw packed for her children lacked the appropriate grain component.<\/p>\n<p>Under the outrageous Canadian food guidelines, daycare workers were forced to supplement Bartkiw\u2019s children\u2019s lunch with a grain \u2013 in this case <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/mom-gives-kids-homemade-lunch-school-forces-them-to-ea-1466822586\" target=\"_blank\">Ritz Crackers<\/a> \u2013 to comply with the federal regs.<\/p>\n<p>The daycare that was required to fine Bartkiw and force feed her kids a fistful of crackers finally grew so tired of serving as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegsun.com\/2013\/11\/18\/mom-fined-for-lack-of-grains-in-kids-lunch-kids-given-ritz-crackers-as-supplement\" target=\"_blank\">food police for the Canadian government<\/a>, that it stopped allowing parents to pack lunches for their children. The childcare provider is now saddled with the extra hassle and expense of cooking a hot lunch for every child in the facility.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to encourage child care workers to keep an eye out for instances in which children are not receiving adequate food or proper care. It\u2019s another thing entirely for the government to command childcare workers to fine and harass loving parents for not packing the exact lunch that bureaucrats want children to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Bartkiw thought she provided her two children with wholesome, filling meals when she sent them to daycare with lunch boxes filled with roast beef, potatoes, carrots, oranges and milk. The government, however, didn\u2019t agree. Bartkiw, who lives in rural Manitoba, Canada, was fined $10 for providing her kids with a lunch that was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,2907,4391,4390],"class_list":["post-19488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-canada","tag-food-police","tag-food-regulations","tag-manitoba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19531,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions\/19531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}