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A new multi-phase school meal assessment process will help implement healthier scratch made meals for the next two years for students in Colorado’s Fort Morgan school district (60.8 % Latino).
Like various other districts across the state, Fort Morgan’s School District plans to partner with LiveWell Colorado’ LiveWell@School Food Initiative, a nonprofit movement funded in part by the Colorado Health Foundation, that helps offer schools a way to serve fresh foods made from scratch.
The main goal of the initiative is to make sure kids have healthier school meals by 2022. The partnership with schools allows the initiative to go into cafeterias and teach culinary training for staff, provide new equipment, and offer tips on healthy recipe planning.
The initiative has already helped over 599,000 students have access to healthier school meals offering foods that help kids eat less sugar, more fruits and vegetables and less overall calories.
All kids deserve to grow up to be a healthy weight. Providing fresh fruits and vegetables in delicious ways helps to ensure Latino kids see the healthy choice as the easy choice.
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