Schools try to keep kids from tossing out fruit, veggies

Source: articles.orland Posted By: Ronny F...4229 days ago

At Triangle Elementary School in Mount Dora, students shuffle through the lunch lines loading their plates with pears, plums, pizza slices and fruit slushies.

At the lunch tables, many devour the cheese-and-mushroom pizza, guzzle their milk but leave whole pears, ripened plums and the slushies destined for the garbage.

"Unfortunately, we do force-feed some of it," said Carol Brewer, a school food-service manager, while monitoring the bustling cafeteria. "They've got to have a fruit or a ve

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