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Too much crunch?

Students resist lunch changes

Lunch boxes are becoming a more common sight in Great Bend schools as families react to Healthy, Hunger-free Kids mandates that are changing the look and taste of hot-lunch plates across the nation.

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A school janitor commented to USD 428 Food Service Director Karl Sprague this week that he had to add an extra waste basket in the lunchroom because the volume of waste had increased.  It’s not paper plates, napkins or milk cartons filling the extra space.  Its food.  Colorful, crunchy vegetables and fruits and whole grain breads, and leaner proteins.  

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