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College Transforms Football Field into Farm

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

They take their football seriously in Texas, which seems to make it all the more amazing that the folks at Paul Quinn College in Dallas ripped up the gridiron and turned it an organic farm. Sure, the uprights are still there, but the school’s president, Michael J. Sorrell, is more into doing right at the school, which is located smack dab in the middle of a food desert. They haven’t forsaken football altogether, though. Customers of the college students, nicknamed “The Fighting Okra” include the nearby Dallas Cowboys football team.

Paul Quinn College's former football field is now home to the school's Food for Good Farm. (Photo via CIVIL EATS)

Paul Quinn College's former football field is now home to the school's Food for Good Farm. (Photo via CIVIL EATS)

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A student rototilling a section of Food for Good Farm at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, TX. (Photo via PAUL QUINN COLLEGE)

A student rototills a section of the Food for Good Farm at Paul Quinn College in Dallas. (Photo via PAUL QUINN COLLEGE)

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Teens Create Healthy Kids’ Snacks

Monday, January 31st, 2011

High school culinary students in Richardson, Texas, were issued a challenge: Create healthy snack recipes for fourth graders that the kids would actually want to eat. Together with their teacher’s challenge, though, came very specific nutrition guidelines from Dallas’ Medical City Hospital, which commissioned the project. Each snack couldn’t exceed 200 calories, seven grams of fat, two grams of saturated fat or 15 grams of sugar. Oh, and the teens needed to include at least two grams of fiber and a serving of fruits or vegetables.

Sounds impossible? Not so. In fact, the teens’ recipes proved so appealing that the hospital published a cookbook, with graphics and layout by who else – the teens.

Richardson High School culinary student Lindsey Mauldin (left) created a Turkeytastic Roll-Up as a healthy kid's snack. (Photo by REX C. CURRY, for The Dallas Morning News)

Richardson High School culinary student Lindsey Mauldin (left) created a Turkeytastic Roll-Up as a healthy kid's snack. (Photo by REX C. CURRY, for The Dallas Morning News)

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Interns Taste What’s New on School Lunch Line

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Teen Interns Taste What’s New in School Lunch

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Many teens look forward to the summer as a break from their less-than-appetizing cafeteria food, but not these three teens. They spent the past couple of days taste-testing at the School Nutrition Association’s 64th annual national conference in Dallas.

Kristy Gudmundsson, Becca Ryan and Daniela Bermea, all Dallas Morning News interns this summer, will be high school seniors this fall.  They accompanied reporter Jacquielynn Floyd on her coverage of the convention, spending most of their time sampling the various offerings from the hundreds of vendors at the show, and providing feedback.   Some of it was good, some not so good.  “It tastes like kids’ Tylenol,” one of them said after trying some fruit juice.   Read all their ratings in the full story.

Teen interns tasting offerings at School Nutritionists' convention.

Teen interns tasting offerings at School Nutritionists' convention in Dallas, TX.

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