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Show School lunch week scheduled the week. The Schools are also being encouraged to enhance the atmosphere of their lunch rooms and cafeterias with creative posters, placements and table decorations that have an Oriental flair, and to plan other similar Oriental dishes for their students, with the help of food service workers. Explained Imogene Hamilton, Specialist in Child Nutrition Programs at the USOE. "Now more than ever, Utahns are concerned about physical Jilness and good nutrition. School lunch provides essential nutrients that enable our children to perform at October 10-16 is 1982 National School Lunch Week, according to the Child Nutrition Section of the Utah State Office of Education (USOE), This year's slogan is "Eat Well, Your Body Can Tell!" along with a new five-year theme, "School Lunch: America's No. 1 Energy Source." This year's special school lunch week menu features nutritious foods from the Orient. It consists of Oriental chicken, stir-fry vegetables, steamed rice, fruit fantasy, milk and a Chinese almond cookie. ' Schools will invite parents to join their children for lunch during their optimum peak. This past year, our school lunch' program has become more cost-efficient cost-efficient but is as high in nutritional quality as ever." Every public school district in Utah participates par-ticipates in the School Lunch Program, as do many private schools, Hamilton reported, During the 1981-1982 school year, 32.123,288 lunches were served. In addition, she said, over 1.1 million lunches were served to youngsters in child care centers, family day care homes, residential child care institutions and summer programs. An average of 3.536 breakfasts are also served each morning to get hungry youngsters off to a good day. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture donated $7 million worth of food commodities to Utah's Child Nutrition Programs, among them frozen gorund beef, frozen cut-up chickens, whole turkeys, cheese, peanut butter, canned fruit and vegetables, flour. butter and vegetable oil. The goal of the Child Nutrition Program is to offer acceptable, high quality, nutritionally well-balanced meals to the children of our state. Said Hamilton. "Recognizing that a properly balanced diet is essential to the physioloical and mental well-being of developing youngsters, it has been our sustained goal to expand Child Nutrition Programs to non-participating non-participating schools and institutions, to increase participation and to maintain and improve the quality of current programs." |