Michelle Obama has her eye on the school food scene in Chapel Hill. Last fall, through Let’s Move and the USDA she challenged food professionals across the country to help make the cafeteria food in our public schools better by submitting innovative, irresistible new recipes through the Recipes for Healthy Kids Challenge.
Out of 340 submissions, 15 semi-finalists were selected, and the team representing Culbreth Middle School is on that short list. Chef Ryan McGuire (Chef-Trainer for Chartwells, the food and nutrition provider for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district), Chef Andrea Reusing (Lantern Restaurant) and a student worked together to develop and document a new recipe to be served in Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools. Their recipe for Stir-Fried green rice, eggs and ham will soon be evaluated by a panel of national experts. To determine with winner, the top three teams will compete in a cook-off, and the winning team will have the opportunity to prepare their recipe with White House Chefs. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $3,000, and the Stir-Fried green rice, eggs and ham recipe could win $1,500 if chosen as the first place winner in its whole grain category or $1,000 if it wins second place.
The winning recipe isn’t just in the the judges hands though–help the team from Culbreth Middle School win $1,500 towards its food service program by voting it as the best recipe in the Popular Choice Awards. Voting ends May 15th, and it only takes about 8 seconds to click through the link to vote for Culbreth Middle School’s recipe for Stir-Fried green rice, eggs and ham. Would you? Could you? Vote for Green Eggs and Ham!!
Who are the other Chapel Hill-Carrboro chefs you would like to see working to create recipes in our public schools? Add your thoughts below on other ways to improve school lunches in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro system.
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