Greasy to gourmet: Seattle chefs help schools trade corn dogs for couscous

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Greasy to gourmet: Seattle chefs help schools trade corn dogs for couscous

Seattle Schools hopes its new menu offerings will make students less skeptical of school lunch. Photo: USDA School lunch in Seattle has come a long way since I was a public school student. In the ‘90s, lunch was only a dollar, and the cafeteria served up square, rubbery pizza, scoops of mushy spaghetti, and Belgian waffles (everyone's favorite!). Fast-forward more than a decade: Elementary school lunch now costs $2.75, and for several years the Seattle School District has inched toward healthier offerings. For most of public-school history, cafeteria food was something to be endured and then forgotten immediately upon graduating. But in recent years, many parents, health advocates, and doctors have targeted school lunch as one of the aspects of our food system most in need of scrutiny and reform. Since then, many of us have come to see bland, processed-food-heavy cafeteria...

Full article: http://www.grist.org/school-lunches/2012-01-04-greasy-to-...

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@PrecisePortions » 12 Jan '12, 1pm
Seattle schools find a challenge in mass producing healthy food - [link]
@healthrevival » 10 Jan '12, 12pm
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@FarmShareOhio » 09 Jan '12, 1pm
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@GreenKellan » 08 Jan '12, 4am
#Seattle school lunches for $2.75 that are healthier & eliminate some stigmas about greasy, cheap cafeteria food [link] #green
@Lifeisamt » 08 Jan '12, 1am
RT @Cocoxochitl Seattle is doing some fantastic work on school food. Check this out: [link] (via @grist) @HealthRanger
@foodmeonce » 07 Jan '12, 6pm
Here's hoping this works for Seattle, and will move to other large school districts: [link]
@ChrisCYVR » 07 Jan '12, 12am
Kudos to Seattle Chefs & schools! Trading corn dogs for couscous: [link] (via @foodee & @grist)
@sparkandco » 06 Jan '12, 9pm
@karenlebillon - see this? Great initiative! Seattle chefs help schools trade corn dogs for couscous. (via @foodee) - [link]
@alanroettinger » 06 Jan '12, 9pm
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@foodee » 06 Jan '12, 9pm
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@DRYSoda » 06 Jan '12, 7pm
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@jenbo1 » 06 Jan '12, 4pm
RT @WK_Kellogg_Fdn: Seattle is doing some fantastic work on school food. Check this out: [link] (via @Grist) #healthykids
@WK_Kellogg_Fdn » 06 Jan '12, 4pm
Seattle is doing some fantastic work on school food. Check this out: [link] (via @Grist) #healthykids
@myungjoo » 05 Jan '12, 11pm
Emerald City shines brighter via @grist: Celeb chef Tom Douglas helps make Seattle school lunches healthier: [link]
@journeymancook » 05 Jan '12, 9pm
We need this to happen at every school! [link]
@EcoEvolution » 05 Jan '12, 7pm
Seattle School Lunches Go Gourmet [link]
@PSFN » 05 Jan '12, 6pm
Check out this article about Seattle's improving school meal programs with CPPW funding: [link] CPPW also funded our F2T proj.
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@manhattanlifeco » 05 Jan '12, 3pm
Seattle thinks "outside the tray" to create healthy school lunches kids will actually eat! [link]
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@kfoodandfitness » 05 Jan '12, 5am
Some good press for Seattle Public Schools! [link]
@CaprianaCondos » 05 Jan '12, 4am
The #lunches you remember from public #schools are slowly changing; did you ever have couscous between classes? [link] @Grist
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@gemmadeetweet » 05 Jan '12, 2am
I'm trying to focus on how positive the change is and not how gross the starting point was. [link]
@jambyjuice » 05 Jan '12, 2am
<3 RT @grist: With a hand from local celebrity chef Tom Douglas, Seattle schools are making school lunches healthier: [link]
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@TeresaOConnor1 » 04 Jan '12, 11pm
Seattle Chefs help raise quality of Seattle's School Food: [link] RT @cocoxochitl: @chefannc: #moms #Seattle
@grist » 04 Jan '12, 11pm
With a hand from local celebrity chef Tom Douglas, Seattle schools are making school lunches healthier: [link]
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