“An effective alternate meal has to do two things: meet federal nutritional standards and flunk child taste tests,” according to this recent LA Times article on schools’ effective -- but tough-minded -- efforts to get parents to pay up on their children’s cafeteria bills. “The cheese sandwich, typically served on untoasted whole wheat bread, apparently qualifies as one perfectly healthy stinker of a meal.”
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