Now we all know getting kids to eat more fruits and vegetables and less sugary treats, is a mammoth task. But that's just what this program hopes to do. So instead of pizza or fried chicken and a soft drink for lunch, the cafeterias will be serving garden salad and water.
Emilio Montero, Coordinator for the National Food & Nutrition Security Commission, Ministry of Agriculture
"The project supports purchasing from the farmers and also in designing of the menus and one of the key arrangements was in the project we will not provide salt, sugar nor grease to be use for meal preparations, because that is encouraging unhealthy eating."
"What would be new to them would be garden salad; having carrots with vegetables and lettuce. That's new to them. So you have to find a way for kids to like it. That's one. Their own local chicken, so rice and beans and their own local menus - their caldo that they called it chicken soup, adding chocho into it and yam and so on. Those are some of the ground roots foods. All of that we are doing and they like it."
The 4 schools in the South are already implementing the new healthy menu. The project aims at supporting local farmers as well by buying their fruits and vegetables.
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