http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1605 Chef Ann Cooper is a renegade lunch lady who works to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms for students - one school lunch at a time. She brings you information to learn about the importance of changing the way America feeds its children. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1605/comment-page-1#comment-216469 Scott Dawson Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:49:44 +0000 http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p=1605#comment-216469 Egregious, indeed! There's so much to improve about the entire system, and this is a prime example. The focus needs to be on the kids and feeding them good, healthy food. How to best do that within the financial constraints placed on schools, I'm not sure. We've chosen to have our kids take lunch 4 days of every week, and they pick the one school lunch each week they'll look most forward to. Gratefully, they don't always pick "reverse day" - they've become acclimated to healthy options through the choices they get at home. Thankfully, there are no soda machines in our elementary school (!) Egregious, indeed! There’s so much to improve about the entire system, and this is a prime example. The focus needs to be on the kids and feeding them good, healthy food. How to best do that within the financial constraints placed on schools, I’m not sure. We’ve chosen to have our kids take lunch 4 days of every week, and they pick the one school lunch each week they’ll look most forward to. Gratefully, they don’t always pick “reverse day” – they’ve become acclimated to healthy options through the choices they get at home. Thankfully, there are no soda machines in our elementary school (!)

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