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Sartell student helps school dish up new lunch ideas

Posted on 15. Dec, 2010 by .

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SARTELL — On Wednesday,December 15, students at Sartell Middle School will get to taste some of the recipes eighth-grade Bryan Sanchez helped create. Sanchez worked with the head cook, a local chef and parent to develop three recipes that will be entered in a national competition intended to introduce more healthful offerings for school lunch. [...]

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Schools work to bring local food to the cafeteria

Posted on 07. Dec, 2010 by .

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Nancy Lebens MN Public Radio — When the Shakopee public schools decided to serve Minnesota-grown pickled beets to some of their 6,500 students, kids needed what food service director Debbie Ross called a little incentive from the school cook. “She bribed the kids with a pencil to take some of the beets,” Ross said. “Some of [...]

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Getting to WOW: Simple Steps to a Great Menu

Posted on 16. Nov, 2010 by .

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Have you registered for the February Great Trays workshop? Are you planning to join the Minnesota School Food Buying Group (MSFBG)? Don’t miss these terrific opportunities to reduce food costs and learn menu planning skills to meet Institute of Medicine (IOM) nutrition recommendations. The first of two Great Trays workshops, called Getting to WOW: Simple [...]

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Farm To Cafeteria Workshops

Posted on 16. Nov, 2010 by .

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Two “Farm to Cafeteria” networking and planning workshops will be held in the Twin Cities metro area in the coming weeks. For both, the morning session will start with an overview of Farm to Cafeteria, followed by an interactive panel with producers, foodservice staff and educators sharing their hands-on experience with locally grown foods and [...]

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Getting to Know the Minneapolis Public Schools Food Service Department

Posted on 13. Nov, 2010 by .

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“Sorry I’m late,” Nicole Barron, Food Services Accounting and Business Services Manager for Minneapolis Public Schools tells me. “There was a baby food recall, and I had to run over to Target to see what they had left and make sure it got over to the schools.” “Baby food?” I ask jokingly, cluelessly. “Is that [...]

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