Boulder school now serves up wholesome food from scratch

A Boulder, Colo., area charter school has ditched the district’s standard cafeteria-style lunch fare for a heaping helping of wholesome food, prepared fresh every morning.

Kids now get to choose from a full-meal hot lunch or a la cart items that are mostly organic and prepared from scratch. Since the new meal plan was instituted for the 2007/2008 school year, participation in the lunch program has gone up from about 40 to about 225 students.

The price has gone up, too, with the district’s standard hot-meal price for processed, frozen preservative-laden food doubling, from $2.50 to $5, for fresh and organic. Children from lower-income families who attend the charter school are still eligible for participation in the federal free-lunch program.

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