Milkshakes make school fun (Continued from Page B 16) Syrup to make the chocolate and strawberry varieties is whipped into the product as it’s being tapped into cups. Favorite, by a wide margin, is chocolate. That came as no surprise to Trumble and lus staff. Some years ago, they’d introduced chocolate milk to the lunch lines, after repeated checkmg showed some 31) percent waste on white milk. With chocolate, the staff found virtually no waste. So we introduced chocolate as sort of a lesser of two evils ap proach,” relates Trumble "It's better that students consume a full carton of chocolate, than throw away most ot the half-pint of white.” And, when the federal govern ment mandated the use of two percent low-fat milk, chocolate consumption climbed even higher. Before the milkshake program, Washington County schools served about 3 5 million half-pint con tainers of milk annually With shakes, milk consumption is even greater And to Trumble’s delight, the students are drinking their milk, not tossing it away While shakes cost about one third more to make, larger volumes of participation has helped to offset that expense And, skeptics who predicted that lunch participation would drop as the milkshake novelty wore thin, have been proven wrong Washington County schools have regained 12 percent of the -32 percent drop in participation in the lunch program, seen at the beginning of the school year Across the state, participation was down 25 percent, with only a one percent gain in school lunch numbers since last fall. Unleash pasture’s milk potential with UNIPEL Pellet Power! 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Cheese, from the stocks of the Commodity Credit Corporation, is available to schools in almost unlimited quantities Hut the lunch program pays the cost of tran sportation and Trumble must arrange to pick up the lood in Baltimore, almost one-hundred miles away We can also get dry milk by the tons,” he adds Since that surplus product is readily available, the Chvvran • Ortho FERTILIZERS Helping the World Grow Better P. L ROHRER & BRO., INC. SMOKETOWN, PA legulai shake mix is being alleied to include additional dry milk For each bUU gallons of shake mix processed, fifty pounds of dry milk will help further boost the nutritive value of the popular drink And, since the school lunch program gets some credit back on the surplus products it uses, the powder addition wifi help cut the milkshake cost by another half cent each Cafeteria staffers at two high school, chatting over the hubbub and organized chaos of serving hundreds of students in a relatively short tune, share their enthusiasm for the milkshake program Wanda Whipp, manager at Williamsport High School, and her staff, begin filling milkshake cups about an hour before the lunch room doors open to the first student. She likes to have about 250 shakes tapped and ready to go since students haul the drinks away faster than cups can be tilled trays are filled with the prepared shakes, and held in freezers at 28 degrees until needed South Hagerstown High’s food manager Susan Place admits she was leery when first introduced to the milkshake idea Although it took about a week to fine-tune the scheduling of the shakes into the serving, she says no other new program has ever been accepted as well Eight hundred shakes went into the lunch line that first day, and then leveled off somewhat If they don’t eat anything else, they do take a shake,” she notes We’d have a rebellion if we look them away,” smiles Williamsport High’s principal Walter Galbreath, glancing out over the filled cafeteria where a shake cup rested On the tray of nearly every student in the room Teachers show a decided en thusiasm for the shakes, too One * r. at' "■ y**mt PH: 717-299-2571 (acuity membet, shake in hand, grumbles. I’m going to roll out of here at the end of the year” an assessment that the flavorful shakes weren’t doing anything for her waist line Some students say they d probably still eat lunch, even if the shakes were discontinued But, while some admit to tiring of white and chocolate milk, none profess boredom with shakes Washington County’s school lunch program serves a total of 48 schools, plus ten senior-citizen feeding centers Food preparations go on in 25 different locations throughout this largely rural, somewhat mountainous, area A fleet of 18 vehicles, transports lunches each equipped with radio communications to keep them in constant touch with the lunch program’s administrative offices Due to the critical time scheduling involved in feeding students hot lunches, an emergency plan goes into effect if a vehicle is even five minutes late in arriving at its destination Handle milk good quality LANCASTER - You deter mine the keeping quality of milk and dairy products by how you care for them,” says Sid Barnard, Extension dairy specialist Milk and dairy products are nutritious foods, but they are perishable Barnard reminds you proper handling is essential to maintain quality, flavor and nutritional value Dairy farmers, processors and store personnel should follow strict practices to protect milk When Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 5,1982—817 In addition to serving millions of nutntionail>-balanced hut lunches, the Washington Countv school lunch corporation has a side dut} In disaster situations, it is one of the institutions expected to provide feeding programs for public benefit and is prepared to go on emergenc} alert for Civil Defense 24 hours a dav That service was used during the 1972 flooding af termath of Hurricane Agnes bhould a nuclear alert ever go out, Washington Count} is one of the areas that would begin preparations to welcome residents fleeing from central Pennsylvania In fact, the} were pul on alert status at the tune of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant incident As the milkshake program has gone down as one of the most successful innovations of this feeding and public service in stitutions, there has been one what }ou might call minor problem Now the middle schools are clamoring foi milkshakes, too, grins 1 rumble to maintain kept cold and out of the light, milk will keep for at least 10 days after processing Pasteurization of milk assures you of safety and extends shelf life This is done by heal treatment without an> significant loss of nutrients Proper handling of milk includes purchasing it last at the store and going directly home Barnard recommends putting the milk in a box or cover it to keep the sun away When arriving home place refrigerated and frozen foods in storage as soon as possible Milk absorbs the order of fish, onions and smoked meat Keep milk containers closed or covered when stored in your refrigerator Be sure that your refrigerator is set to keep milk at 40*F or below When serving milk, return the unused milk to the refrigerator Don’t let it sit on the table or kit chen shelf The colder the tem perature, the longer that milk and perishable foods will keep Keep milk cold, covered and in the dark This assures you of good quality, flavor and nutrition CAIdS^ 1 )^ the dairy way -d [ f | r", 1 1 ill/’ - . 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