"The broccoli is one item that goes fastest."  The Mount Vernon School District has been experimenting with adding more nutritional value to their school breakfasts and lunches for several years.  For the past two years, the joint lunch room for Mount Baker Middle School and Little Mountain Elementary School has had a vegetable and fruit bar for the students.  It has turned out to be quite a hit, allowing students to pick out the fresh produce they most want and try out new items on their own terms.

According to an article in the Skagit Valley Herald, students are eating far more than school officials expected.  But school officials are happy and the School Board is planning to expand the program to all the schools in the district next year, as well as add more freshly baked wheat bread and take processed and high sugary foods off the menu.