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What's
New
in our
Cafeterias
Lunch
Munchers
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"Beary"
Healthy
Lunch***
Bag
Mania
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More
fruits and
vegetables
...Whole Grains
WHY ?
HOW ?
Where *
Welcome back to a wonderful new school year. We are continuing to make
new and exciting changes to our cafeterias as we met the challenge of
implementing the wellness policy guidelines while meeting the
taste preferences of our students.*we've added
more
fresh fruits and vegetables to the lunch lines at all of our schools , cut up
celery , carrots,
cucumbers, broccoli , cauliflower, eggplant,
watermelon, grapes, sliced apples, oranges and pineapples to
name a few
.These choices add color, refreshment
and crunch to your lunch . At
Roxbury High
School we've
added more fresh made garden and fruit & cheese salads, a
tomato surprise with tuna, egg salad,
cottage cheese, fruit & yogurt salad, Humus with vegetables and pita
chip , our 100% juice slushy
machine is still very popular, two new lunch items on the RHS
October menu are Philly Steak & Cheese Wrap with Cheddar Horseradish
sauce and Chicken Cordon Bleu on a Kaiser Roll .These menu
items will be repeated throughout the school year, At Eisenhower Middle School the
students are also enjoying fresh
fruit and salad platters . look for our new 100% fruit juice Slushy
machine The
elementary students are enjoying the
variety of vegetables, fresh fruit
and fruit juices on the lunch line .Look for more
whole grains
on our menu , we now have pizza made with
whole wheat ,
whole wheat breads, bagels, crackers and rolls.
We also are serving more
vegetarian
selections ,as our main menu item , look for our pasta bar and lo mien
on the 06-07 menus at RHS
and our version of lunchables at the elementary schools**
.... Check out the 06-07
menus for a "beary "healthy lunch.
In December we introduced Bag
Mania , a new twist on bag lunches,
this new item debuted to rave reviews from the students. The
February menu at Roxbury High School boasts
two special menus items for super bowl and mardi gras .
DID YOU KNOW ?????
Our Elementary and Middle school kitchens do not have
fryers. Your K-8 child's nuggets,
burgers and fries are all specially formulated to be baked to crispness
in our ovens.
We bake all of our entreé items. At Roxbury High
School kitchen, the only item we fry is french fries, all entreé items
are baked, and our burgers are flame broiled on an open grill. And we
continue to be trans fat free even our fryer fries are trans-fat free!
We use a blend of canola oil that delivers no trans-fat in the frying
process. Our snack offerings are also trans-fat free. You can be assured
that we do our best to choose healthy offerings for our menus and ala
carte items! We're working hard to bring new and exciting menu
items to the cafeterias .... stop in and enjoy one.
** Lunch Munchers made their
debut in our elementary cafeterias on
March 15 .. to rave reviews ...the excitement about our new menu
offering built over the last few weeks and it was well
worth the wait ... the students thoroughly enjoyed this meal , with many
new customers venturing into the cafeterias
Lunch Munchers were such a huge hit , the students were
requesting a repeat performance ... look for them
again on our 06- 07 menus .
Lunch Munchers .. keeping Fun at lunch
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Looking for ways
to help you and your family eat more fruits and vegetables for
good health? Here’s an idea:
Eat the colors of the rainbow.
Research increasingly shows
that foods with color and rich flavor contain more
phytochemicals – plant
compounds that aid in disease prevention and health maintenance.
When planning your meals,
think about the color spectrum:
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Red foods like tomatoes,
watermelon, guava and pink grapefruit contain lycopene, which
may aid in the
prevention of cancer and reduce your risk for heart disease.
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Yellow-orange fruit and
vegetables like apricots, pumpkin, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes,
winter squash,
carrots and oranges contain beta-carotene, which may aid in
the prevention of cancer, slow the aging
process, improve lung function and reduce problems related to
type 2 diabetes.
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Green foods like broccoli,
kale, spinach, collard greens, Romaine lettuce and Brussels
sprouts contain
lutein and zeaxthanin, which contributes to healthy vision and
may aid in the prevention of cancer.
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Blue foods like blueberries,
plums and currants are rich in vitamin C, which helps keep
your capillaries
strong so you won’t bruise easily.
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White foods like onions,
garlic, scallions and leeks can help lower LDL (or bad)
cholesterol, reduce the risk
of certain cancers and help control hypertension.
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The Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourage
people to eat 2 cups of fruit and 2½ cups of vegetables
every day And, don’t forget to be active every day. Be
sure to fit physical activity into your daily routine
along with good food choices for a healthy life. |
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