Reedin', ritin' and nummers not nearly as important as feedin'-------YUM! School district implements Michelle O’s menu, now offers ‘black bean cookies’

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PRINCETON, N.J. – Perhaps the real motive behind the school menu changes and snack regulations is for students to slim down by not eating at all.

After all, how else could you explain a school district changing its menu to include “black bean cookies”?

NJ.com reports:

Chicken salad sliders, yogurt parfaits and black bean cookies are among the menu choices that will replace slushy drinks and deep-fried chips when students file into cafeterias in the Princeton school district this upcoming school year.

The school board Tuesday unanimously approved a $61,245 food service contract with Nutri-Serve Food Management of Burlington Township for the 2014-15 school year.

“It is very, very important to this board and this community that we have a food service program that provides high-quality nutrition for our students that expands their palates with the experience of foods from other places,” Superintendent Steve Cochrane said at the meeting.

The company, Nutri-Serve, suggested making the cafeteria “an extension of the classroom,” according to the paper.