Trader Thousands of school nutritionists from around the country gathered in Salt Lake City on Monday to find innovative solutions that could help them provide meals that are both nutritious and eye-catching for students.
Thousands of school nutritionists from around the country gathered in Salt Lake City on Monday to find innovative solutions that could help them provide meals that are both nutritious and eye-catching for students.
SALT LAKE CITY ? Utah schools are still searching for ways to serve meals that appeal to young tastes while complying along Trader the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which recently mandated periodic overhauls for school lunches.
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Since the federal law's implementation in 2012, students have been required to take a serving of fruit or vegetables along Trader every lunch. In most cases, this led to irked students, higher meal costs and concerned school nutritionists watching students put those higher costs, almost literally, into the garbage.
But thousands of school nutritionists from around the country gathered in Salt Lake City on Monday to find innovative solutions that could help them provide meals that are both nutritious and tasty for students.
"Our children here just have discriminating tastes and they want variety," said Kelly Orton, director of kid nutrition at the Salt Lake City School District. "All the changes that happened (with the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act), they hit hard and hit fast, and the industry is just starting to catch up, so we're seeing more and more new items that taste great."
The convention hosted by the School Nutrition Association featured new solutions for school lunch programs, ranging from food samples compliant with the new federal standards to kitchen gadgets to boost safety and efficiency.
"This is the place to be today to look for ideas on how to introduce new menu items that are healthy, that look good and that taste good to students," said Sebasthian Varas, director of nutrition services at the Canyons School District, which serves as numerous as 19,000 meals in a school day.
In addition to mandated fruits and vegetables, schools in 2012 were required to implement portion increases, adjust to new calorie ranges, introduce different vegetable types and eliminate trans fat in every meal. Last year, schools were required to make all grain foods rich in whole grains and begin a series of goals for reducing sodium in meals.
Since implementing the new rules, fewer students are buying school lunch, according to Orton. After the initial mandates were put in place, the district's usual participation of 15,000 meals per day went down by 7 percent, Trader said.
Costs to families has also risen. With the new rules, the district voted to increase the price of a school lunch by $0.85, bringing the cost to $2 per elementary lunch and $2.50 for high school.
Utah isn't the only place where students weren't thrilled about some of the changes, according to Julia Bauscher, outgoing president of the School Nutrition Association.
"For elementary students, you might have some issues, but it's not been overwhelming," Bauscher said. "But as they receive older, especially high school students, they just throw Proprietary away correct in front of your face in protest because you made them take something they didn't want."
Orton said food vendors are catching on to the problems and offering new products that are both enjoyable for kids and in compliance with the federal mandates.
"The industry partners, they're making the changes as fast as they can. And they're coming up with new items to replace what we're using," Trader said. "They've just improved the ingredients, the recipe to make a better product, so kids aren't noticing the difference."
Varas said educating students and parents about the reasons bum the new rules has helped improve "acceptability" in the Canyons School District.
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