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MIAMI -- First lady Michelle Obama had Miami elementary school students cheering Monday over a typically contentious dinner topic - vegetables. Even the green ones.
The first lady ate some cherry tomatoes and fresh herbs with the students, who were the first in the country to receive a free salad bar as part of her new initiative to get more veggie displays into school cafeterias.
"If you're going to change your habits, you've got to be ready to try some new stuff...trying some vegetables you might not normally eat," Obama told students at Riverside Elementary.
Only about 15 percent of public school cafeterias have salad bars. Dozens of schools want to add them, but can't afford the $2,500 equipment display or the produce to stock it, said Lorelei DiSogra, vice president of nutrition and health for the United Fresh Produce Association. The organization is donating 6,000 salad bars to schools, mostly in low-income neighborhoods, over the next three years as part of Obama's Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative.
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Im glad more kids have an opportunity to select healthy food. Hope they are learning something about the importance of good nutrition in their classes.
Beats the crow handed out by voters to Democrats Nov. 2…
Great for the kids and great for the local farmers!!!!
A salad bar … how wonderful… Id like it if the schools in our district actually had kitchens, instead of getting pre-wrapped food from offsite.
Im glad she is our First Lady.
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I am just proud to have her as our First Lady. Let us put her image in Mount Rushmore if Obama cannot make it for some reason.
I love the idea of this!
My daughter is in the second grade, they only offer whole wheat buns as well as whole wheat pizza cust. I am however saddened that they do not offer veggies each day with the entree. I have started packing her a side salad or veggies with dressing to eat alongside with her purchased lunch on the days that she does purchase.
I love the idea of a salad bar. But am frightened thinking about hundreds of kids getting that food themselves or doing God knows what as a practical joke. I do hope the kids would be telling a cafeteria worker assigned to the salad bar what to get.
SabeWhat: I doubt very much vegetables will be coming from local farmers. It has to be FDA approved before going in to the schools. My Grandchildrens school have been serving adult size, individual salads for several years now. Every time I go have lunch with them, I see many children, on their own, opting for the salads. Dont really need a salad bar per say, a salad like you get at any grocery store is sufficient. It can be made with other lettuce than ice berg. Knowing the government though, ice berg lettuce will be the lettuce of choice in these salad bars.
Wonderful! I love our First Lady! I think it would be great for our children to have these salad bars, what could be more important than our childrens health?