Title: The Problem with Your Child's School Lunch and What To Do About It | Parents
Headings: The Problem with Your Child's School Lunch
The Problem with Your Child's School Lunch
Is your child's cafeteria failing to provide healthy, nutritious food?
Meals Gone Bad -- and Good
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Moms Make a Move
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Is your child's cafeteria failing to provide healthy, nutritious food? By Elizabeth Foy Larsen
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Credit: Paula Hible
Deep-fried popcorn chicken, tiny taters, bread, barbecue sauce, ketchup, milk. That high-fat, high-sodium, low-fiber menu is a typical lunch at a typical American elementary school. We know about it because Mrs. Q., a grade-school teacher, decided to eat her school's lunch every day for an entire school year and report anonymously to the world on her blog, "Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project" (fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com). What she discovered about our kids' midday meals is sobering if not surprising: Menu mainstays routinely feature fatty items such as pizza, french fries, hot dogs, and a mystery pork product called "ribicue." She's eaten beef with fake grill marks and lots of sweetened fruit cups. Mrs. Q. didn't know when she started documenting each meal that she would become a prominent voice on a hot-button issue that has galvanized not only high-profile chefs such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray but also First Lady Michelle Obama. "