In celebration of National School Lunch Week, CUSD Food and Nutrition Services held a Healthy Lunch Recipe Contest, asking students of all grade levels to submit their favorite lunch recipe. Submissions could be no more than five ingredients and needed to include a fruit or vegetable. Students wrote out the ingredients, instructions for preparation and a paragraph describing their dish and why it was important to them.
Of the more than 100 recipe submissions, Food & Nutrition selected the top-four to prepare for a group of judges. Trustees Gila Jones and Judy Bullockus, Superintendent Dr. Chris Brown and other District representatives tasted all of the finalists, and ranked their favorites based on taste, creativity and use of the fruits and vegetables.
FINALISTS
Friendship Fried Rice
Grace Tao, Nitya Koorpati, Claire Segal (Chaparral, 5th Grade)
Fall Sweet Potato Salad
Jade Sonico (Aliso Viejo, 7th Grade)
Avocado Salad
Saanvi Padwal (Aliso Viejo, 6th Grade
WINNER
Sweet Potato and Banana Cinnamon Muffins
Cayden Catching (Aliso Viejo, 6th Grade)
Check out the winning recipes below, and try to make them at home!
