cindy jones. i'm especially happy to introduce to the committee ms. jones who serves as the business management coordinator for food service in kansas. she has worked for the olathe public school ss food programs for 20 years. starting at 17 as i recall. she serves as the public policy and legislation committee chair in the school nutrition association of kansas and has served as vice president and president. dr. sandra hassink. i hope i have that right. hassink. who is president of the american academy of pediatrics. currently serves as president, hailed from wilmington delaware. the doctor has focused her career on preventing and treating obesity in children. she is a pediatrician at a hospital for children where she founded the weight management program in 1988 serves as the director of a pediatric obesity initiative. the doctor began her medical career at the vanderbilt school of medicine as one of only 12 women in her graduating class. thank you for being here today. i look forward to all of your testimony. we will start with you sir. >> thank yo

miss cindy jones of the unified school district 233. i'm especially happy to introduce to the committee ms. jones who serves as the business management coordinator for food service at the public schools in kansas. she has worked for oletha public schools food service for over 20 years. started at 17 as i recall. she serves as the public policy and legislation committee that anywhere the school nutrition association of kansas and has served as vice president and president. i look forward to cindy's testimony. dr. sandra hasink i hope i have that right. . she currently serves as president and hails from wilmington, delaware. the dr. has focused her career on preventing and treating obesity in children. she is a pediatrician at dupont hospital for children where she founded the weight management program in 1988, serve as the director of the pediatric obesity nushive the. the doctor began her medical career at the haven'ter built school of medicine as one of only 12 women in her graduateing class. i look forward to your testimony. we will s

i'm not an expert, but cindy jones is we were at a lot of points of error. if you could point that out for me, please. >> absolutely. and it sounds like you have had a chance to visit school meal programs which is great. i hope if the rest of you haven't had an opportunity that you will take that soon. there's nothing like seeing it firsthand. >> you can lose a little weight there, too. >> but let me describe a typical scenario, there's a lot of variation. you might have a cafeteria with a 30 minute lunch period dozens if not hundreds of students coming through a line, sometimes there's kois about what they take, not always and when they have their meal on their tray they go to a cashier at the end of the line. that cashier needs to check the meal to make sure it's meeting nutrition standards and figure out who the child is to make sure that that meal is marked down in the right meal category free reduced or paid. now, that's a process that has to happen very quickly when you've got lots of students waiting in line and it's only when they get through that pr

i'm not an expert but cindy jones is and we were at a lot of points there. such a point that out for me please. >> it sounds like a chance to the school meal programs which is great. i hope the rest of you will take us in because there's nothing like seeing it firsthand. let me describe a typical scenario, a lot of variation so you might have a cafeteria with a 30 met lunch period, dozens if not hundreds of students coming to a like a sometimes this choice about what they take, not always, and when they have been on the tribeca to a cashier at the end of the line. that cashier needs to check in to make sure its meeting nutrition standards and figure out who the child is to make sure that meal this market and the right meal category them free, reduced or paid. that's a process that has to happen to quickly when you got lots of students waiting in line and it's only when make it through the process they finally get to be. this is not a sophisticated interaction. talking maybe seven or eight year old and has to happen really fast. that us great opportunities fo

i am not an expert, but cindy jones is and we are at a lot of points of error.ance to visit school not programs which is great. at the rest of you have to have an opportunity, take acid because there's nothing like seeing it firsthand. [inaudible] [laughter] let me describe a typical scenario. he might have a cafeteria with a 30 minute lunch. i'm a dozens if not hundreds of students coming through a line. sometimes this choice about what they take. not always. when they had to kneel on the trade they go to the cashier at the end of the line. the cashier needs to check the mail to make sure it meets nutrition standards and figure out who the child is to make sure the child has food right category. that is a process that has to happen quickly when you've got lots of students waiting in line and only when they get to the process do they finally get to me. this is not a sophisticated interaction. we are talking about a seven or 8-year-old and a cashier and that has to happen fast. that creates opportunity for error. also more models are being tried now to make it ea

reauthorization process i am also appreciative of the witnesses here today a special thanks to miss cindy jonesn our shotgun rider, if that's the proper term. who has traveled from oletha, kansas to be on our secretary sekd pam. i look forward to hearing from witnesses and i thank them so much for their testimony before the committee in taking their valuable time to come here. i turn to my colleague, the chairperson emeritus of the committee, senator stabenow for any opening remarks she may have. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i look forward to working with you. on this important issue, we have been talking and looking for ways that we can move forward together, and i look forward to working with you on this. as well as the entire committee. as we continue the work we began last year to strengthen child nutrition programs, i want to thank the witnesses as well for testifying today. you bring very important perspectives from all sides of the issue, there are a lot of important pieces to this legislation. it's important we hear from you. and work together to move forward. as we all know, o

jones cindy thank you for your help.r traversing kansas and enjoying school lunches and school breakfast. if you provided with some that word again, flexibly, what changes would you make? >> i would allow us to go back to the 50% whole grains so we are able to add some of those items back with -- back at the kids enjoy, such as whole-grain biscuits do not have much flavor. i don't know if any of you have tried them. crackers, they taste like sawdust. just some of the simple items just like our children, they love chicken nuggets. all kids love chicken nuggets. now the coding of the chicken nuggets, they no longer like the flavor. just simple things we we could do with that. i would go back to encouraging kids to take fruit and vegetables, which is what we want to do in our district if we keep hearing about, it's just a half a cup. but we have 29,000 students in our district. that's a lot of half of cups. if two-thirds of those kids eat the fruits and vegetables that still 10,000 half of cups that we throw away and overdu

miss jones cindy, thank you for your help in our traversing kansas and enjoying the school.u were provided with some flexibility what changes would you make it back. >> i would allow i would allow us to go back to the 50 percent whole-grain so that we are able to add some of those items back at the kids enjoy such as whole-grain biscuits do not have much flavor i don't know if any of you have tried them. crackers they taste like sawdust, some simple items come our children like chicken nuggets now with the coding on the chicken nuggets they no longer like the flavor just simple, little things that we could do. i would go back to encouraging kids to take fruits and vegetables. we keep hearing about it is just a half a cup but we have 29,000 students in our district. that is a lot of half a cup. if two thirds of those kids eat fruits and vegetables that is still 10000 that we throw away. over a year that is 1.7 million. in our in our district we want the kids to eat the fruits and vegetables. we have unlimited fruits of a investable's. we go into schools all the time encouragi