Press release
Each year more than 30 million children go through school cafeteria lines every day in the United States and thanks to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which took effect in 2012, they no longer serve homemade rolls, salty French fries and sauced up chicken wings. School meals must now be lower in fat, calories and sodium and contain lean proteins, more fruits and vegetables and whole grains. And kids from coast to coast are wrinkling their noses.
Malakoff ISD Child Nutrition Director Tanya Berry takes a group of students every year to the Region 7 Food Show allowing them to have a voice in the foods they eat. This year she took students from Mr. Perry’s Superintendent’s Student Advisory Committee and MMS APBL Class, and they got the opportunity to try out new food items and recommend some new menu items for the following school year.
Berry has worked with the Cross Roads and Trinidad school districts in assisting them with their school menus this school year. She had the opportunity to meet with some of those students from Cross Roads ISD and they are pleased with the new menus.
The mission of Malakoff ISD Child Nutrition is to provide nutritionally sound meals that support the goal of the effective delivery of academic and/or extra-curricular services to the students of Malakoff. Managers Jennifer Gonzales and Debbie Scarborough also attended the food show with the students.
Students who attended were Tyler Crews, Katelyn Crews, Hector Romero, Fantasia Bryant, Ethan Dunacusky, Allison Holt, Pricila Garcia, Brittany Baker, Judd Driskell, Zymiajah Thomas and Kanicia Sally.
