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thelunchbox.org provides free practical, professional tools + recipes for U.S. schools to create healthier lunches. they've already transformed the school lunch experience for tens of thousands of nutritionally challenged children across America by helping their schools switch from processed foods to fresh, natural ingredients + scratch-made meals. now they can help 200 more schools since they partnered with whole foods, to raise $1.4 million so far. so please nominate your school at great american salad bar project before 11/12/10 :) "renegade lunch lady" Chef Ann Cooper, has a vision to ensure that all children have access to healthy food at school to grow their bodies, minds + future. so she started a school lunch revolution last year, when she created a nonprofit to change the u.s. school food system to an ecologically sound model that empowers schools, families, farms + food producers to operate sustainably. it enables schools to serve nutritious whole food. it educates through training programs, direct services, + thelunchbox.org to provide tools for all schools, parents, advocates, students, administrators, teachers + food service staff to progress from serving highly processed, unhealthy food to serving fresh, healthy, scratch-cooked food. over 66% of public schools serve lunches made of highly processed foods that exceed recommended limits for fat, sugar + sodium content. over 33% of u.s. kids are overweight, yet undernourished + predicted will develop preventable diabetes. by ~mod*mom~ at 5.11.10 © 6 Comments:
Oh how fabulous. Now that my daughter is in school I am floored looking at the lunch menu. And no doubt ours is better than many. By Mom101, at 11/07/2010 5:22 PM
hi mom101 :) By mod*mom, at 11/07/2010 7:15 PM yay i read in the newspaper today that the government is restricting sugar, sodium + fat in school lunches , at
this is so great. I used to work in an inner city school in boston, and the free lunch and breakfast that they served (that almost all the kids relied on for nutrition, everyday) was so gross. Squeezable "tacos" in plastic tubes that you squeezed into your mouth, grey meat, nary a veggie in sight. By sweet cricket design, at 1/25/2011 6:19 PM
Yahooooo! By mod*mom, at 6/22/2011 5:03 PM A very useful information,thanks for sharing...:) By sindhuja, at 11/06/2011 11:33 PM |