Clear Lake High School is one of four school districts to receive a USDA award for efforts to improve the nutritional quality of student meals. Clear Lake has reduced sodium on its menu by using spices, fresher local ingredients, and reduced or reduced-sodium products. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack traveled to the Clear Lake area to deliver the award.
Vilsack said Clear Lake has overcome challenges to improve its menu options.
Vilsack said the USDA has provided billions of dollars in aid over the past few years to help U.S. school districts improve the nutrition of school meals, and USDA’s Healthy Eating Incentive Award has been cleared. He said it’s designed to showcase schools like Lake that have achieved great success. With that support.
Clear Lake Community School District Food Services Director Julie Udelhoven said the school won the Healthy Eating Incentive in August 2023.
Udelhoven said her school lunch team created custom blends of salt-free seasonings to bring out the flavors of different vegetables as one way to reduce students’ sodium intake in the lunchroom. It is said that he did.
