Ok, all you Jamie Oliver fans, 'reality' TV is taking another shot at school lunch.
Tomorrow night at 9pm on Bravo, Top Chefs - apparently in DC - will prepare a school lunch while working with Sam Kass, chef at the White House and presumably on board with Michelle Obama's efforts to reduce childhood obesity. Their challenge? Make lunch with just $2.68 per meal -- the amount of the federal reimbursement for a child receiving a free school lunch. And it is a challenge. First of all, at our school, most kids pay just $2.25 with only a $.25 federal reimbursement -- plus commodity foods. Second, the $2.68 has to pay the whole bill for running a school lunch room include all overhead - salaries, health care, equipment, food - everything. In most schools and ours is no exception, you have less than $1 to spend on food. Try making a hot, healthy meal with that.
Read this post at BetterDCSchoolFood for more details:
www.betterdcschoolfood.blogspot.com/2010/06/top-chef-flunks-school-food-math.html
Then, call Congress and tell them to provide more money for school lunch.
Enjoy the show,
Sara
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