Broward County Public Colleges are spicing up their cafeteria choices this 12 months—and it’s not simply the cooks calling the photographs. Highschool college students helped hand-pick lots of the gadgets that may seem on breakfast and lunch trays beginning August 11, district officers stated Wednesday.
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Gone are the “boring biscuits,” as college students put it throughout focus teams led by the district’s meals and dietary companies staff. Of their place? Gadgets like Philly cheesesteaks, tortellini, beef and broccoli, and rooster Caesar salad—all aimed toward higher reflecting college students’ tastes and cultural backgrounds.
“They wished extra pasta dishes. They wished extra culturally numerous choices,” stated Elizabeth Seeley, a registered dietitian with the district. “And so they wished meals that they take pleasure in after they’re out at fast-casual eating eating places. So we’re going to present these choices for them.”
New lunch choices this fall embody a taco crisp, a gluten-free rooster enchilada empanada, and the “Broward Bowl”—a comfort-food combo of mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, gravy, and a rooster tender (spicy or common). Vegetarian college students haven’t been neglected both: salads will now characteristic buffalo ranch fava bean crisps as a plant-based topper.
Breakfast choices are additionally getting a refresh, with the addition of bacon, egg, and cheese tacos and guava pastelitos with pandebono bites—sourced from Miami’s Bread and Bread bakery.
A pretzel canine may also be out there at faculties that take part within the district’s after-school supper program.
Importantly, this would be the first menu rollout in Broward that eliminates synthetic dyes, a part of an ongoing effort to make college meals more healthy and extra interesting.
Whereas breakfast will proceed to be free for all college students, the district’s common free lunch program—beforehand funded via federal pandemic-era grants—has ended. Households will now want to use to find out lunch eligibility via MySchoolApps.com.
The revamped menu displays a broader pattern in class vitamin: listening to college students, assembly them the place they’re, and placing actual selection on the tray.
