Healthy Snacks for All Results

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The Healthy Snacks Campaigned kicked off at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year. The campaign is sponsored by the PTO, who arranged for healthy snacks such as apples, pears, and oranges to be given to students
twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday) just before dismissal. The project has shown that students are responding to healthier options and less and less candy wrappers and soda bottles are showing up in trashcans and recycle bins. Since the majority of Berry students are considered to be economically disadvantaged, this is the first time students are regularly eating fresh fruit as snacks. As a result of this exposure to different types of foods, students are now
requesting more fruit with their breakfasts and reaching for the fruit plates offered during lunch in the cafeteria.