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Show National School Lunch Week Sixteen miles of hot dogs (if placed end to end) will be served to Utah school children as part of National School Lunch Week. Utah students will be part of more than 25 million youngsters nationally who will participate in National School Lunch Week October 10-16. According to H. H. Winawer, School Food Specialist of the Office of the Utah State Board of Education, this year's theme is the circus. Winawer indicated that the menu served by all schools on Wednesday, October 13, will consist of a "great favorite of youngsters." This Type A lunch will be: Main attraction-Hot dog on a bun, Ring Master's Vegetable Beef Soup, Side Show-Orange Wedges, Happy Clown's Tutti-Frutte Tutti-Frutte Crisp and Midway Milk. Winawer also indicated that along with the 16 miles of hot dogs, it will take 100,000 cups of mixed vegetables, 50,000 oranges, and 12,500 gallons of milk to provide this lunch to the nearly 200,000 Utah students. "In a health-conscious age, these lunches (Type A) offer a balance of needed vitamins and minerals," he said. "It supplies the correct number of calories needed by each age group. With school lunch, the whole is more important than its parts and the standard theme message, 'You Are What You Eat,' graphically illustrates the important nutrition message." The National School Lunch Program, as well as other Child Nutrition Programs, are administered ad-ministered by the School Food Services ' |