The article is down right disturbing. Food coaches? My daughter had a “food coach”- me. Good luck forcing kids to eat vegetables. One of things studied in my nutrition class was how to hide them or dress them up to get kids to eat them. And good luck with introducing them to new, culturally diverse foods. I can only think that the consultants to this program are affirmation action graduates that learned little about nutrition and children. Making a big issue out of food with kids also has the unintended consequences of producing eating disorders. I wonder if they’re covered under Obamacare.
I didn’t eat vegetables until I was in my twenties and learned to buy them fresh and stir-fry - thank you, Irene Kuo.
Now how do you translate fresh vegetables and stir frying into feeding three hundred kids in twenty minutes, four sittings? You don’t. You use frozen vegetables, and they sit in warming pans for a couple hours.
When my oldest grandson was in grade school, he ate hot dogs and mac and cheese for lunch and dinner 7 days a week for 2 years and then switched to chicken fingers and mac and cheese for the next four years. His fav thing for breakfast cold cheese pizza. Never been sick a day in his life. Now finishing college - 6’2”, weighs 180. Runs track, plays tennis and golf, straight A student, very polite hardworking young man. Still eats hot dogs and mac and cheese every night for dinner, except on Saturday when he has a steak and baked potato and Sunday when he has shrimp and pasta. He will eat beets and broccoli tops and drinks a glass of orange juice daily but no other fruits or vegetables.
If he ever gets married, perhaps his wife can get him to try something new, or not....