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Kids are indeed willing to eat healthy food
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Despite earlier claims to the contrary, a new study has found that kids are not reluctant to eat healthy food.A University of Minnesota study found recently that school lunch sales don't decline when healthier meals are served, and, better, that those meals don't necessarily cost more to produce.
Pizza, fries and gravy, and chocolate-glazed donuts have been traditionally served in high school cafeterias with a resigned sigh, because "kids just won't eat nutritious food."
Apparently that's wrong, according to the study, and kids will eat what's on the menu: healthy or not. Schools can still serve hotdogs, but when there's the choice of having a turkey hotdog over a traditional, nutritionally-void hotdog, why not serve the former?
This study actually makes a lot of sense to me. Nolan loves salad with fresh tomatoes and grated cheese just as much as he loves Zoodles, but sometimes the Zoodles are just more convenient for me. Hopefully by the time he's in school, chocolate eclairs and grilled cheese and ham will have made hasty exits from the school system.
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11-26-2007 @ 11:13AM
emily said...Thanks for sharing this article. There are so many of us here in MN (and across the country) trying to improve school lunch for kids and often the only press is about the bad stigmas surrounding school lunch.
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11-26-2007 @ 1:44PM
Joy said...I agree with Emily, I happen to be in MN also. School lunches get such a bad rap. Most kids I know "have" to take hot lunch since it's "easier" for the parents. Working in the school district, I saw kids eat lunch and they ate the lunch no matter what it was since it was "lunch" and it was that or nothing. I also feel that what kids eat is a reflection on what their family eats. All three of my grandchildren like "healthy" foods AND junk foods. Just like all of us, we all like a variety. I've seen kids eat what adults would have never thought they would. Our schools had two choices and most kids got in the shorter line no matter what was in the other line. Kids are kids. I also ate the school lunch for 15 years as an adult and they were good. I think people who say they are bad are having some kind of a bad memory of maybe one thing they didn't like as a child.
Kristin...you also made me think of all my Canadian family today with your "fries and gravy." Most Americans don't know you eat that north of the border...thanks...
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