Recipe Ideas for Next School Year’s Meal Regs
Summertime is all about planning out menus for next school year. With the new meal regulations coming into play, districts across the country are hard at work reworking their offerings to comply with the new meals. We’ve got six recipes to help spark your menu development.
Confessions of a soda fiend
Last week New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed one of his increasingly common ideas for bans in the form of restricting the size of the sodas, energy drinks, and presweetened teas that can be sold in restaurants, movie theaters and sports arenas to no larger than 16 fluid ounces.
This week HBO began showing a new series, “The Weight of the Nation,” which focuses on the growing obesity problem in this country. As a part of that series, a special kids’ episode was produced called, The Great Cafeteria Takeover. The episode featured a group of remarkable students from New Orleans’ Recovery School District (RSD).