Ann Cooper, director of food services for the Boulder Valley School District, said she received dozens of e-mails seeking assurances that the school would not serve beef with a filler called "lean, finely textured beef" more recently dubbed "pink slime" in the wake of reports and social-media camp
Colorados best-known school nutritionist says the complete trans-fat ban is do-able. Ann Cooper, author of the Renegade Lunch Lady blog, is in charge of food service at the Boulder Valley district, thought to be the only public school district in the state that is trans-fat free.
Date: Feb 02, 2012
Category: Health
Source: Google
Processed Food Industry Shows Who's Boss in the School Cafeteria Line
Last I checked, pizza was still being served twice a week in Berkeley schools, and that was after famed school meal reformer Ann Cooper took over. Cooper tried to remove nachos from the menu entirely. But she was forced to reinstate them in a healthier versionmeaning no processed cheese out of a ca
"Chocolate milk is soda in drag," said Ann Cooper, director of nutrition services for the Boulder Valley School District in Louisville, Colo., which has banned flavored milk. "It works as a treat in homes, but it doesn't belong in schools."
Trying to get students to consume calcium by drinking chocolate milk is like getting them to eat apples by serving them apple pie, said Ann Cooper, a leading advocate for healthy school lunches.