Posted on 10/21/2013 2:43:49 PM PDT by Zakeet
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extolled a local elementary school in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. for making its students try broccoli gratin, Tuscan kale, and beet hummus, as an example of the departments efforts to fight obesity.
Clinton Elementary School held a taste test to preview food that will soon appear on the lunch menu, and was highlighted by USDA for its healthy eating efforts.
The Poughkeepsie City school district received a $100,000 grant from the USDA for its farm to school project, which it is using to add items such as butternut squash puree to school menus. The funding was authorized by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which was championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Kane said kids enjoy the healthy eating tests much more than learning math.
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Or sauteed in bacon drippings with a splash of hot sauce.
(kale and bacon is divine!!)
Here’s a way kids will eat kale:
Kale Chips
1 bunch kale
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
Directions
Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a non insulated cookie sheet with parchment paper.
With a knife or kitchen shears carefully remove the leaves from the thick stems and tear into bite size pieces. Wash and thoroughly dry kale with a salad spinner. Drizzle kale with olive oil and sprinkle with seasoning salt.
Bake until the edges brown but are not burnt, 10 to 15 minutes.
Fresh tomatoes, avocado & ripe mango sliced with a bit of salt and olive oil. My lunch today!!
Heck - fresh tomatoes, in any format, are wonderful! Almost out of fresh tomatoes till next year. :-(
Still have one Brandywine ripening. 7” in diameter and almost 1-1/2 lbs!! Can’t wait to slice that baby up.
Add powdered garlic and parmesan cheese and they’ll be licking the bowl.
The school hosted parents and students for an open house, where they sampled food that will soon appear on the school menu, including broccoli gratin, roasted root vegetables, carrot and butternut squash puree, Tuscan kale and white bean ragout, and beet hummus.
The headline is more than a little hyperbolic.
That said, "free" school lunches should be limited to a pb&j or cheese sandwich, an apple, and milk or water. Economical and 95% of kids will eat it.
I forget what a great movie that was...really captures the nitty gritty NYC in the 70's
When, oh, when, are you people going to understand the difference between "loose" and "lose"? This is something you should have picked up in elementary school.
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