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Local students get taste of something a bit different
By YVETTE OROZCO
More than 200 Harris County students from more than 30 area school districts got a taste of something different last week at the Harris County Department Education’s Food Expo at the Humble Civic Center.
Vendors from California, New Jersey and Florida brought a new twist to the menu — healthy eating.
The purpose of the Expo is to provide an opportunity for various vendors to pitch food products that encourage healthy eating habits to school children throughout the United States.
Some of the items on the menu included nuts, fruits, whole-grain pizzas, natural ingredient smoothies, sorbets, and while students will had their chicken nuggets and fries, the table also provided a spread of black bean salsa and chips, oriental chicken, tortilla cheese rolls with spicy cheese, Cuban cuisine, sweet potato sticks or empanadas, apricot applesauce and marinara sauce for dipping breaded cheese sticks, turkey sausage bagels.
Students play the role of customers at the Expo as the Gulf Coast Food Co-op solicits bids from vendors who then prepare the more popular items at the most affordable cost.
Gulf Coast Co-op members then buy the products in order to have purchasing power, according to Renee Fleishman, HCDE Co-op manager.
Vendors from California, New Jersey and Florida brought a new twist to the menu — healthy eating.
The purpose of the Expo is to provide an opportunity for various vendors to pitch food products that encourage healthy eating habits to school children throughout the United States.
Some of the items on the menu included nuts, fruits, whole-grain pizzas, natural ingredient smoothies, sorbets, and while students will had their chicken nuggets and fries, the table also provided a spread of black bean salsa and chips, oriental chicken, tortilla cheese rolls with spicy cheese, Cuban cuisine, sweet potato sticks or empanadas, apricot applesauce and marinara sauce for dipping breaded cheese sticks, turkey sausage bagels.
Students play the role of customers at the Expo as the Gulf Coast Food Co-op solicits bids from vendors who then prepare the more popular items at the most affordable cost.
Gulf Coast Co-op members then buy the products in order to have purchasing power, according to Renee Fleishman, HCDE Co-op manager.
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