10.10.2012 We have all complained about school meals at some point, proclaims Marlene Schwartz, Deputy Director for the Rudd Center, in a recent Huff blog post. But times are changing for school meals and Food Service Directors need our support more than ever.
Recent complaints about not having enough food to eat at lunch as a result of new nutrition standards for school meals have brought lots of media attention to the school lunch tray. The new nutrition standards are not the problem; rather Schwartz believes that “the luxury of abundant palatable (high fat, sugar and salt), cheap food has turned our children into a pack of picky eaters.”
The new school menu will help reverse this trend. Schwartz urges that parents acknowledge the hard work that Food Service Directors have in changing students’eating habits, and at the same time encourages parents to ask their director how they can work together to create a menu that is healthy but also appealing to students.
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