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COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 19--It was spaghetti versus chicken nuggets at Wilburn Elementary School's cafeteria, but this food fight proved no contest.
Most students ignored a sign recommending the less salty, lower-fat spaghetti and heaped nuggets on their plastic foam trays. Ten year-old Mia McDougald bucked the trend, but not because she saw the sign.
"The spaghetti is my favorite because of the cheese flavoring of it," said the third-grader at Wilburn, a Raleigh year-round school that last year served more lunches than any other elementary school in Wake County, where more school meals were served than any other Triangle county.
March is National Nutrition Month, when politicians have lunch at local elementary schools and students such as Mia learn the basics of healthy eating. What they don't learn is where the food on their trays comes from -- and how those sources influence the nutritional value of their lunches.
Mia's spaghetti, for instance, contained cheese and ground beef provided by the...
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