LA County School Lunches To Be Revolutionary

The Revolution is coming! K-12 LAUSD kids, look out! Your lunches are about to get a whole hell of a lot better--and better for you.

This week it was announced that Revolution Foods, a fairly new company out of the Bay Area, is bringing their goodness southbound, and will be launching a pilot program in three local schools to bring them "fresh and healthy meals on a daily basis," according to their press release. The timing is perfect; March is National Nutrition Month, and the LAUSD is in on the action.

With the state of school lunches a dismal array of bland, unhealthy, and possibly questionable (see: Massive Beef Recall), LA's school kids are in desperate need of tasty, healthy options. To add insult to injury, perhaps, kids these days are exercising less and eating more junk food, which is contributing to a nationwide rise in obesity in our youth. Good nutrition could even mean good grades for the future minds of our city and country:

Nutrition has been shown to link directly to academic achievement. Whether a child is undernourished or eats foods high in sugar, sodium and fat, the low energy and lack of focus that come as a result have an impact on a child's ability to perform well in school.

So what's on the menu?