This week in some of the Maryland Public Schools, it is Maryland Homegrown School Lunch Week. This means the fruits and vegetables at Nugget's school are locally grown and offered to the children. He will be buying lunch all week, because I really want to support this program, and encourage the eventual expansion of it. The current downside is that the school system has not fully embraced the philosophy (they are still having those pre-packaged square pizzas as the main entree today, for example). However, the fruits and vegetables are a great step in the right direction, even if it is only for a week!
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1 comments:
That sounds like an awesome program! Several of my friends have been lameting the poor quality of school lunches lately, everything in breaded form, it seems.
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