{"id":3826,"date":"2010-11-08T20:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T03:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2010-11-12T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:02:15","slug":"grist-remaking-school-meals-in-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=3826","title":{"rendered":"Grist | Remaking school meals in Boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/casey-milk.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3828\" title=\"casey milk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/casey-milk.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lunchtime at Casey Middle School, and kids were jostling in the food  line: giggling, pushing, horsing around as usual as they waited to be  served the day&#8217;s entree &#8212; a choice of hamburger or a plate of either  beef or vegetarian bean nachos.<\/p>\n<p>Some students who&#8217;d already passed the cash register with their food  stood in front of a bank of microwave ovens determined to add a  finishing touch to their plates of corn chips topped with grated cheese.  &#8220;We like to melt the cheese,&#8221; one girl explained.<\/p>\n<p>That would be the first clue that something very different is  happening these days at Casey and the other 47 schools in the Boulder  Valley School District. As recently as two years ago, the cheese on  those nachos would have been the processed liquid kind poured out of  can. But then just about everything in Boulder&#8217;s cafeterias has  radically changed since Ann Cooper, the famed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chefann.com\/\">Renegade Lunch Lady<\/a>,&#8221; took over food service here in fall 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Gone are the chicken nuggets, Bruno&#8217;s pizza, potato chips, Eskimo pies,  and other school lunch staples of the past. Chocolate milk and &#8220;energy  drinks&#8221; also have been scratched from the menu. No more Otis Spunkmeyer  muffins, &#8220;super doughnuts,&#8221; or breaded cheese sticks either.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article in Grist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/food-2010-11-08-remaking-school-meals-in-boulder\">Remaking school meals in Boulder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunchtime at Casey Middle School, and kids were jostling in the food line: giggling, pushing, horsing around as usual as they waited to be served the day&#8217;s entree &#8212; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[190,217,211,215],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-bvsd","tag-nutrition","tag-school-lunch","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}