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Amazon.com and bath and beyond found items at the brick and mortar store were 6% cheaper and thats before coupons. and are they not all theyre supposed to be? a teacher in new york put his class to work and oreos to the test. double stuff oreo, 1.86 times the amount of cream and the mega ones had 2.68 times the regular oreos. tomorrow snickers, we work on nugget. >> steve: what can we believe? believe this, nine-year-old tyler weaver just won his public librarys reading contest for the fifth yea...

Test using math equations they compared regular oreos to double and mega stuffed cookies. turns out they dont live up to their name. double stuff only had 1.86 times the amount of cream and mega ones had 2.68 times the amount of regular orios. time now for the good, bad and ugly. first the good. a basketball shot that will make you flip. the amazing move pulled off by a member of the washington state cheer squad. it is now going viral. next is the bad. most animals dont like bath time. this do...

Budget our public schools have. $2.68 per child. thats $134 for all 50 kids. >> of that $134 im going to take $4 away because for the $2.68 that schools have to serve lunch, that includes labor and supplies and anything it takes to get that food to the plate. so $4 is actually a real gift. >> the bananas, despite the fact identify been cooking them for 20 minutes, they taste like white bread. theyre very starchy. i decided to add more sugar and that will hopefully break down the starch. >> did y...

Using the same restrictive budget that our public schools have. $2.68 per child. thats $134 for all 50 kids. >> of that $134. im going to take $4 away for the $268 that the school has to serve lunch, labor and supplies, and anything to get it to the plate, $4 is a gift. >> the bananas, despite the fact that ive been cooking them for 20 minutes, they taste like white bread. theyre very starchy. ill add sugar to break down the starch. >> did you find you had to add more sugar because the bananas w...

And i had young children. so that limited the amount of time that i could work. so i worked predominantly lunches. as im sure you know, lunches arent the most profitable shift. you need to turn your tables over to make money. i was still getting paid on average $2.13 an hour. well, i think was $2.68 back in 1991 when i started. >> plus tips? >> plus tips. if we got a slow lunch, a whole hour would go by, no table, no tip. my paycheck would be eaten up by taxes and social security, there were tim...

What do you think would make the young people healthier and have them fit for military duty? >> we need healthy choices and need these whole grains and fruits and vegetables and increase the amount of money we spend daily on a child. right now its $2.68 per meal. by adding money to the child nutrition act, well be able to increase the quality of the food thats served and push out the junk food and empty calories and result in a more healthy nation and reverse this trend. weve got 39 states now t...

Ii pushed congress to enact the national school lunch program. well, they appear to be victims of their own success because now, according to this new study by mission readinesreadiness, af ex-military people, 27% of people between the ages of 17 and 24 are unfit for military duty because theyre too fat. now, its not exactly a problem at the moment because all of the services are up to the recruiting goals, but go down the road 15, 20 years, maybe to 2030, and it could become, according to missi...

Most. >> what struck me is everything comes out of a deep fat fryer. things like vegetables and whole grains arent there. were spending $2.68 on each individual out there. thats hard, pretty much a challenge for those in the lunch rooms. >> how are you justifying this is a threat to our national security, perhaps. >> the fact when you take 9 million children, ages 17 to 24 and add on those that dont have a high school education and those that have criminal records, that grows to 75% of the young...