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Parent urges Mill Creek board to overhaul school meals, recommends sugar limits and end to fast-food fundraisers
Summary
A parent representative on the district wellness committee urged the board to remove high-sugar items from breakfasts and lunches, set local sugar limits, stop fast-food partnerships and ban artificial food dyes.
Amanda Austin, a parent representative on the Mill Creek wellness committee and mother of a kindergarten student at Asbury, urged the Mill Creek Township School District Board of Directors on March 24 to make immediate changes to student meals, saying current breakfast and lunch menus include items she called overly sugary and nutritionally poor.
Austin read a list of recent breakfast items that she said “have no nutritional value,” including sprinkle-filled pancakes, cinnamon rolls, Trix French toast, Trix cereal bars,…
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