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At this middle school
in Beckley, west Virginia,
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the school lunches don't have
the flair they do in Illinois.
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This school does not outsource
their food service,
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but they are on the federal
school lunch program,
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providing USDA reimbursable
meals to the students,
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most of which are reheated,
reconstituted packaged foods.
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Some days the amount of calories
in each meal tops 1,000.
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So, the USDA
sends this food
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for you
to prepare for kids.
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Right. Well, not all of it, now.
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You've got sloppy Joe
bar-b-que sauce with pork.
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From the government.
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Whatever happened to cooks
actually cooking?
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I don't know what happened.
Too many whiny people.
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They don't want
to work hard.
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It's easy to come in here.
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This is the best tool
we got right here --
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box opener.
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That's your chef's tool,
the box cutter.
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Open up a box, serve it,
give it to them.
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Let's look at the things
that are actually cooked.
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Here's a menu.
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Mashed potatoes.
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Ham.
Chili will be homemade.
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The chili
will be homemade.
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What about
the tomato soup?
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Campbells.
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Meatballs?
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Comes in a box.
You heat it up.
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Out of the course
of an entire month,
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6 out of 36.
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You're only cooking
6 out of 36 meals?
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Appleton central
alternative high school
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is filled with students who have
truancy and behavioral problems.
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But they've turned
things around --
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not through discipline,
but through diet.
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We were fortunate
to kind of stumble across
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this healthy program
as a result of some contact
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with natural oven and bakery
of Manitowoc Wisconsin,
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and they believe
in low-fat, low-sugar,
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non-chemically processed foods
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that are free of dyes
and preservatives,
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full of whole grains,
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a lot of fresh fruits
and vegetables.
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We do no beef here at all,
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and then it's the method
of preparation,
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where we don't fry.
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A lot of baking
and then just fresh preparation,
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as opposed to opening cans
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or thawing things out
from the box.
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We got rid of candy machines,
soda machines,