Some LCPS Students Trash Healthier Lunches, Others Accept Changes
Students in L'Anse Creuse Public Schools have mixed reactions to school lunch changes caused by new federal school meal guidelines.
New, healthier school lunches are drawing mixed reviews from students in L’Anse Creuse Public Schools. Schools nationwide altered menus for the 2012-13 year to fit federal guidelines aimed at trimming the fat from school meals. While some students are tolerating the lunch changes, some younger LCPS students are throwing their vegetables in the trash, said Teresa Arnold, Sodexo school services general manager. Chesterfield Elementary student Morgan Freshney said she sees unwanted foods, such as baked and refried beans, abandoned in the trash at her school. “They give you vegetables every time you get lunch now," the fifth-grader said. “(Some students say) our cafeteria wastes all the food because no one really eats it.” But High School …
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Stacy Vick
2:15 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Hate to say this but my son throws out the veggies. We don't do as many hot lunches this year. That way I know what I pack will be eaten and less wasted. more ›