How does YCSD encourage students to try new foods on the menu? That’s where taste testing comes in. Taste testing can help students change their food choices. If students learn where the food comes from, how it is grown, have hands on experiences with it, and use their senses to understand it, they are more likely to taste and accept it.

Various tastings are held for the children to give them the opportunity to explore new foods, connect growing food in gardens to tasting it amongst their peers, and integrate into school meals new, local foods that students will accept.

Through the generosity of our PTA's and grants awarded by the Foundation for Excellence, our district has been able to work with local chefs making the cafeteria to classroom connection.

Please click here to see and try some of these tasty recipes that students kept coming back for more!