Just a spoon full of salt & sugar helps the school lunch go down...

Sorry Jamie, our House isn’t listening to the sage, pun intended, words of your house. Why are our politicians defending junk food? What is so wrong about labeling school lunches with caloric and nutritional facts? What will our children do with that information? The horror. As most of the world makes a well-deserved ‘blurk’ face at US public school lunches, we were lucky to have a health savvy first lady to lead the US in new (well, renewed I should say) health programs with the core value of eating healthy, local grub. But, it would seem, our House is not in line with the White House. Grist puts a sound article together about the national school lunch attack and the growing potato chip lobby but I am happy to say that Seattle has taken an independent stance on public school lunches including doing business directly with local farmers. If you are interested in learning about our Regional Food Policy and give your voice to the cause, I attend the Puget Sound Regional Council Food Policy Meetings. This advisory council brings representative from all over the Puget Sound Region to “promote health, sustain and strengthen the local and regional food system, and engage and partner with agriculture, business, communities and governments in the four-county region.” Hope to see you there!