I’ll let you in on a secret: I love a nice glass of chocolate milk from time to time too! 🙂

What to do? I’d say if your local school district is planning a ban, get like-minded people together and make yourself heard!

it’s a bad idea to ban chocolate milk we all need chocolate milk for nurtious vitamin D calcium plain milk is just boring imma do something about it can we stop banning chocolate milk?

Christine, I echo your sentiments. In the last 50 years a lot has changed, some not for the better.

Yeah, but you have to take these things one step at a time. It would be great to stop feeding little kids fried fat covered in sugar by tomorrow, but that isn’t realistic. Most people tend to be adverse to change, even if it is for the good of their children. This year the milk can go, and next year maybe we can cut back on fat content.

Cutting chocolate milk may not be much, but over the course of 170ish schood days times 12 years is a lot.

My sentiments exactly!

If they took chocolate milk out, the large percentage would just quit drinking milk, so the question is, would we rather our kids not drink milk or save 200 calories a day. People don’t get to be a 250lb 8 year old by drinking a glass of chocolate milk a day, they get that way by eating enough food for 3 adults.. or 2 of me.

That is an interesting point: If chocolate milk never was there, would children drink plain milk? On FB I received a comment where a guy said that at his school, there was only plain milk, which he hated and declined to drink, while he would have drunk chocolate milk.

Schmidty, when I first heard about this discussion and saw what importance some people apparently attribute to chocolate milk at schools now, I couldn’t quite believe that the whole subject is taken this seriously.

I think for some students, school lunch may be the healthiest meal they get the entire day, even with some school cafeterias serving less than ideal food. For some children, the chocolate milk may even be the only milk they get.

When health-conscious parents don’t want their children to have flavored milk, I can understand it up to a point. But there are parents who aren’t as considerate and children living under those circumstances have to be taken into account as well.

But I’m disgressing; a positive outcome can only be achieved when all parts of the equation are accounted for. Parents, schools and manufacturers all have to be put to the task.

That is what looks like to me to – targeting one tiny factor of what children consume each day seems a tad shortsighted.

And maybe I misjudge him, but Mr. Oliver’s current wrestling with LA schools seems to me like a publicity stunt.