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Just thinking about today’s Main Dish: News of the Day from the Baltimore Sun about teens coming up with new menu items for the school cafeteria… According to the article, teens need to follow these cost limits in the culinary contest:

Entree: No more than 58 cents 
Fruit: 16 cents 
Vegetable: 16 cents 
Bread: 11 cents 
Milk: 11 cents 
Condiments: 10 cents 

And then, of course, there is the expense for disposable packaging. Looking at it this way, the whole notion of serving individual lunches seems ludicrous. At home, a family of six can eat a very nice lunch for seven bucks. Why do most school systems continue to use this out-of-date and atrociously wasteful and unhealthful method for feeding America’s kids??

In the spirit of generosity encouraged by President Barack Obama, we’re launching the Cookin’ Teens ”Yes We Can Food Drive.”

Nearly one out of every eight Americans struggled to find food last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That figure includes nearly 700,000 children, a 50 percent spike over 2006. Help out if you can by dropping off a coupla cans of food or some PB & J or spaghetti or whatever you can spare at the nearest food bank. It’s quick and easy to find a food bank near you by using the handy locator at http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx

Welcome to Cookin’ Teens, your daily destination for fun, fresh, teen-friendly foods from scratch. We test them, we cook them, we eat them, we write about them. And we do all sorts of interesting things in the process, like videotape them and photograph them and turn them into art. We hope you have as much fun exploring our site as we have creating it!

Tell us what you’d like to see on our cooking and eating site. We’d love to know! And we’d also like to know what you don’t like about our site, so tell us that too.

If you are a teen, we would love to showcase your photos, videos and recipes on our site. They MUST be YOUR ORIGINAL CREATION, and not pilfered, borrowed or lifted from any other blog, cookbook, publication or grandmother without written permission. Drop us a line and we’ll tell you how to do it.

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