Lunch Lessons : Changing the Way We Feed Our Children : Chef Ann Cooper : Renegade Lunch Lady

Chef Ann Cooper Join me on my mission to change the way our children are eating. Together, we’ll tackle outdated district spending policies, commodity-based food service organizations, political platforms with no mention of school food or child health — and ultimately the USDA — to ensure that kids everywhere have wholesome, nutritious, delicious food at school.

Sign up for “Ann Alerts” or take the “School Food Challenge” to uncover new ideas, strategies, tips and recipes. Your passion and commitment will help us make a difference for future generations. Keep on fighting the good fight.

Chef Ann
Renegade Lunch Lady

Grade your food choices! Using Chef Ann’s Healthy Kids Report Card, kids, their parents and school administrators can use Chef Ann’s good, better, best model to determine whether or not their food choices make the grade.

Chef Ann’s Healthy Kids Meal Wheel is a lunch lesson designed to help kids, their parents and school administrators identify what foods will best meet a child’s nutritional needs during their school and teen years.


View a copy of the Berkeley Unified School District 2008-2009 Elementary or Middle School Menus. See what Chef Ann is serving the children throughout the school year. Also included are notes about the school district food policy and nutrition services. Click images above to get there.

Laptop Lunches are American-style bento boxes designed to help families pack nutritious, environment-friendly lunches for school. Please check out their website!