School Lunch Goes Gourmet
Series: Tipping the Scales: Examining Obesity in New Hampshire
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Next September, school lunch will be transformed. According to new federal rules, schools will have to serve more fresh fruits and vegetables and less processed, high-fat food. But beans and broccoli are the bane of many kids’ existence. So the question looms: how do you get kids to eat the stuff?
As NHPR’s Elaine Grant reports, Souhegan High School in Amherst may have found the answer.
His name is Chef Jim.
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Next September, school lunch will be transformed. According to new federal rules, schools will have to serve more fresh fruits and vegetables and less processed, high-fat food. But beans and broccoli are the bane of many kids’ existence. So the question looms: how do you get kids to eat the stuff?
As NHPR’s Elaine Grant reports, Souhegan High School in Amherst may have found the answer.
His name is Chef Jim.
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Next September, school lunch will be transformed. According to new federal rules, schools will have to serve more fresh fruits and vegetables and less processed, high-fat food.
But beans and broccoli are the bane of many kids’ existence. So the question looms: how do you get kids to eat the stuff?
As NHPR’s Elaine Grant reports, Souhegan High School in Amherst may have found the answer.
His name is Chef Jim.
“There’re potatoes, summer squash, zucchini, peppers, and they’re seasoned with the chef’s curry seasoning, we have brown rice, and then we have our chicken bruschetta…”
Just as chicken bruschetta and curried vegetables aren’t your mother’s school lunch, Danielle Collins is not your mother’s lunch lady. You might say she’s a school nutrition director on steroids.
Since she took charge of the school food in Amherst and Mont Vernon a year ago, she’s made dramatic chan...
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