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By: Chef Ann Cooper
After a season of barbeque, farmer’s markets, and freshly-picked summer fruit, it’s hard to get back to thinking about school lunches. Whether your child brings her lunch or hops on the lunch line, soon many changes in school cafeterias will affect what she eats in school. Here are a few things to consider as you pack up the lunchbox and hand over pocket money for snacks.
High schools can only sell sugary sodas and sports drinks up to 60 calories in less than 12-ounce servings. Elementary and middle schools can only sell water, low-fat milk, and 100% vegetable and fruit juices. Since drinks like diet sodas may be allowed based on this criteria, you may want to send your child to school with a better-for-you option like water or unsweetened iced tea.
What You Can Do
Despite USDA standards and district-wide decision-making, you can still help decide what your child eats, and you are the best advocate for what she is served when you are not around.
Here are a few things you can do:
Chef Ann Cooper
Chef Ann Cooper is a celebrated author, chef, educator, and enduring advocate for better food for all children. In a nation where children are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents because of diet-related illness, Ann is a relentless voice of reform by focusing on the links between food, family, farming and children's health and wellness.