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• Center for Ecoliteracy: Rethinking School Lunch - Includes program background, downloadable PDF guides containing tools to help improve school lunch programs, and essays.
• Healthy Meals Resource System - Program established by the United States Department of Agriculture to help implement the School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children. Offers recipe and meal planning resources, reports, food safety information, discussion groups, and a directory of chefs willing to volunteer at schools.
• Lunch Lessons - Features chef Ann Cooper's weblog, audio and video clips, photos, recipes, and support resources for parents and lunch providers.
• Model School Wellness Policies - Federal site offering guidance and advice for local school districts on the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004. Offering model policies and other resources.
• The School Lunch News - Newsletter offering links to articles about school lunches.
• Two Angry Moms - Companion site for documentary by filmmaker Amy Kalafa about fellow mom Susan Rubin's year-long crusade to improve school lunches. Includes their biographies, information about donating, movie clips, articles and press releases, and resources.

Random Indian Recipes:-

• Stuffed Bangda
  First clean the bangda.remove eyes and tail. Give cuts on stomach both the side. Apply lemon juice and little salt.keep aside for 10 min. In a bowl take red chilly powder,turmeric,ginger paste,tamarind pulp and salt. Mix well and apply this chutney to bangda. fill chutney also in stomach. Keep aside for 20 min. Dip bangda in rice flour and fry in hot oil on mid. flame. Stuffed bangda is ready.
  
  
• Vanila Ice Cream
  Take 2 3/4 cup of milk in a pan add sugar and keep boiling. Add chinagrass and cornflour in cold 1/4 cup of milk and mix well. Add in hot milk stir and cook on low flame (cook untill thick). Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Add vanila essence and fresh cream.mix in mixture. Pour the mixture in aluminium tin and keep to set in refrigerator. When it will half set again mix in mixture and keep in refrigerator to set.
  
  
• Potato Burfi
  Boil potato and mash finely. Grate coconut. In a thick bottom pan mix mashed potato,coconut and sugar. Allow to cook on a low flame (appx. 45-50 min). When the mixture bacame thick remove from the gas. Add elaichi powder and mix well. Pour the mixture on greased platform. Roll out the mixture with roll pin to make 1 cm thick. Cut the pieces as shape as you want. Allow to cool.
  
  
• Mango Milk Shake
  Remove the skin of mango and collect the pulp. In pulp add sugar and 1 cup of milk. Mix above ingredients in mixer to make fine pulp. Now add remaining milk and elaichi powder. Mix well and keep in refrigerator to cool. While serving you may add mango pieces to decorate.
  
  
• Sambar Masala Powder
  Fry mustard seeds and asafoetida in little oil. Fry other remaining ingredients one by one. Mix all and make a fine powder. Store in a air tight container. Sambar masala powder is ready to use for dosa and idli.
  
  
• Pineapple Jam
  Remove skin and eyes of pineapple and grate it. Add sugar and saffron in pineapple pulp. Put on low flame to boil for 10 min. Lastly add elaichi powder and mix well. Pineapple jam is ready.
  
  
• Undhiyo
  Mix all above muthia ingredients in a bowl and knead dough without using water. Make small balls and deep fry in oil till golden and keep aside. Make pieces of all vegetables. Mix all masala ingredient and apply to chopped vegetables. In a cooker heat one bowl oil and fry whole red chilly.ajwain and hing. Now pour all vegetables in tadka and fry again for 2-3 min. Add 1-2 cup of water and cover the cooker. Allow to cook on low flame for 30-40 min. Allow cooker to cool. Now add fried muthias and mix well. Undhiyo is ready.
  
  
• Balushai
  Make the syrup of 2 string consistency and add rose essence and lemon juice. In a plate sieve flour and baking soda together and keep aside. In a big plate take curd,2 tsp sugar and 1&1/2 cup ghee and beat finely for 4-5 min. Now add maida and soda. Knead the dough smoothly. Use curd if necessary.(no water) Make small balls off the whole dough and press them a bit. Make thumb impression in center. Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for 10 min. Heat ghee in a pan and fry balushai on a ...
  
  
• Kadai Paneer
  Cut paneer and capsicum in long pieces. Make fine paste of onion, tomato, ginger and salt. Heat butter in a pan. Add bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon. Then add ground paste,red chilly powder and orange colour. Allow to cook on medium flame till oil seperates. Add paneer and capsicum pieces. Cook again for 4-5 min on low flame. When the capsicum are done remove from the flame. Kadai paneer is ready. Serve hot with naan or roti.
  
  
• Puranpoli
  In a big bowl take maida,oil,salt and turmeric powder. Mix well and add enough water to make soft dough. Keep aside for 30 min. In a pan boil dal till soft. Remove extra water and add ...