This month the featured vegetable is baby carrots. High in beta-carotene the district nutritionist offers a recipe to capitalize on their inherent healthiness.
The recipe suggests serving 2 cups of baby carrots with 3 tablespoons of butter, 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of brown sugar and a 1/4 cup of orange juice!
Is this really the best we can strive for when it comes to introducing vegetables and reinforcing a healthy diet for our kids?
I'm left to wonder if all the food that is actually prepared by our cafeteria kitchens are similarly cloaked in sugar?
We can and should do better. Our kid's health and future depends on it.
We seem to be catering to the lowest common denominator in the schools by assuming kids won't eat healthy, life-affirming foods unless it's coated in a simple sugar syrup.