On the menu this fall at Meadowbrook Middle School are BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, habanero-mango chicken wings and spicy chicken wraps.
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A surge of nearly $15 billion in state and federal funding has allowed California school districts to not only buy fresher local ingredients, but to train staff and remodel kitchens. “We’ve got some equipment that has been out of commission for years but there was no funding to replace it and we’re finally in a position where we can really bring all of those to current state-of-the-art equipment,” said Emily Cena, director of food and nutrition at the Poway Unified School District.
The move to healthier school meals comes on the heels of California’s universal meals program that provides breakfast and lunch to all students regardless of their parent's income. “Compared to pre-pandemic times, we’re now serving twice as many lunches as we did before,” said Cena.“Families really appreciate that extra time in the morning that they are not having to put together the meal. They know that there is a well-balanced meal at school at no cost,” Cena said.“School nutrition today is a very different landscape than it was maybe a generation ago,” Cena said.
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