School food ingredients, or what are we feeding our kids?

Ingredient list

Ingredient list

Ingredient list courtesy of Oakland School Food Alliance.

Sierra Filucci is a writer, journalist, and multimedia producer. She’s written and produced projects about food, film, and art as well as immigration, agriculture, and crime. She’s interested in textured stories with a strong human element that say something about our common experience. As a longtime Oakland, Calif. resident, Sierra values the variety of experiences the city offers, from taco trucks on International Boulevard to wild turkeys in Redwood Regional Park.

I feel really lucky that I've been able to eat healthier foods in the past few years, but it takes time and planning and some money, too. Wouldn't it be great to change the way schools bought food to make local ingredients and actually cooked food more affordable and the norm in schools?