What is being done to make school lunches healthier?
Food Services has made a concerted effort toward making our menu items healthier long before wellness policies were required. However, it has been a “covert ongoing operation for years to improve the nutritional content of our lunches”. Elementary and middle school students generally do not want to know what the healthy food ingredients are in their lunch and typically they only eat foods they like. See our Healthy School Lunch Initiatives. • How do you introduce new foods to children? Here are some pointers to remember when introducing new foods: • Keep a relaxed attitude. • Never insist that a child try a new food. Do not punish a child who refuses. • Serve a new food several times so the children can become familiar with it. • Start small. Serve a small portion of the new food. • Serve a new food with a familiar food. Remember the balance between familiarity and variety. • Eat the new food with them. Children will often eat foods they see familiar adults eating. • Rather than ask if
