I arrived at Boulder’s Columbine Elementary School at 7 a.m. sharp and Margaret Trevarton, the school’s “kitchen satellite lead”–formerly known as kitchen manager–was already packing breakfast for the schools’ 408 students. Columbine is one of five schools in Boulder where breakfast is universally free and served in the classroom. Twenty-two blue plastic packing boxes represent all […]
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The White House is set to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide despite uncertainties over how those salad bars might be treated by local health inspectors and U.S. Department of Agriculture rules that could prove a major impediment. Officials in the White House led […]
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Every day U.S. school children throw tons of vegetables in the trash. The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that schools participating in the national school lunch program offer a certain quantity of vegetables each week. But most schools serve primarily re-heated processed foods that arrive frozen. Vegetables typically land on student’s cafeteria trays overcooked and […]
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