Why would anyone want to eat lukewarm cooked spinach, green beans, or carrots? When adults remember their most disliked school cafeteria meals, those sides rank right after mystery meat. In fact, does any adult have fond memories of public school lunches? If so, we'd like to hear about them.
So it is a relief to hear that "Over the summer, Nutrition Services Officer Jeremy Tunstill helped set up test kitchens at North Charleston Creative Arts Elementary and Charleston County School of the Arts. During summer camps at the two schools, cafeteria staff brought small groups of students into the kitchen to rate a bevy of choices from US Foods and Limehouse Produce, which supplies fresh fruits and vegetables."
"'We reduced the hot vegetables,' Tunstill said. 'We found that they get thrown in the trash.'"
The Charleston County School District budgets nearly $30 million a year on food. That must make it one of the largest meal providers in the state. Of course, most of that comes from the feds, with a small portion paid by those few remaining students who actually pay their own way.
My youngest would have gone with the peanut butter and jelly sandwich everyday regardless.😄
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I have some good memories of public school lunches in Georgetown County in the 60s/early 70s. The beef vegetable soup and cornbread is among the best I've ever eaten (I'm 64.) The chicken pilau was excellent, as were the fried chicken/fried fish. A lot of the food was not actually bad, it was just too bland - always a problem when you're feeding people with very different tastes.
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