์ฐธ์ฌ ํ๊ต ์ ์ฒด์์ ํ๋ ๋ ์ด ํฌ์ด ํ์ฌ์ ํ๋ ๋ ์ด ๋์ฅ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ 4์จ์ค ํฌ์ด ์ปต 11,800๊ฐ ์ด์(์ฝ 3,000ํ์ด๋์ ํฌ์ด์ ํด๋น)์ด ์ ๊ณต๋ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค.
To help increase local menu offerings in school lunches, three dozen public schools on Hawaiโi Island, Maui, Kauaโi, and Molokaโi will be offering fresh local poi as an accompanying lunch menu item to students and staff this month in honor of May Day.ย
์ฐธ์ฌ ํ๊ต ์ ์ฒด์์ ํ๋ ๋ ์ด ํฌ์ด ํ์ฌ์ ํ๋ ๋ ์ด ๋์ฅ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ 4์จ์ค ํฌ์ด ์ปต 11,800๊ฐ ์ด์(์ฝ 3,000ํ์ด๋์ ํฌ์ด์ ํด๋น)์ด ์ ๊ณต๋ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค.ย
์นด์ฐ์์ด์ ์๋ ์นํ์ธ์ค ์นด๋ง์นดํฌ๋ ์ด ์คํ๊ต๋ ๊ธ์์ผ์ ์นผ๋ฃจ์ ๋ผ์ง๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ์๋ฐฐ์ถ, ๋ก๋ฏธ ํ ๋งํ , ํ๋ฏธ, ์๋ค๋ง๋ฉ, ํ์ธ์ ํ ๋ฉ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ๋ค์ธ ์ ์ฌ ๋ฉ๋ด๋ก ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ์ต๋๋ค.ย
ํ์๋ค์ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฐ์์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.ย
โHanalei Poi and poi in general is like one of my favorite foods so when I saw it on the menu, I was really excited,โ 7th grader Kelston Apilado said. โI like local ingredients because you know where itโs from, and you know itโs fresh and good.โ
์นด๋ง์นดํฌ๋ ์ด ์คํ๊ต ๊ธ์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ์ค์๋ ํฌ๋ฃจ์ฆ๋ "๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋งค์ผ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์ํด์! ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ค์ํ ๊ตญ์ ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์๊ณ , ์ด๋ค ์์ด๋ค์ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ํ ๋ฒ๋ ๋จน์ด๋ณด์ง ์์์ด์... ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ญ์ง ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ด๋ค์ ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ฅผ ์ํ์ด์."๋ผ๊ณ ๋ง๋ถ์์ต๋๋ค.ย
๊ต์ก๋ถ์ ๋์ฅ์์ ํ๊ต๋ก์ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋ ํ์์ด์ ์๋ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฐํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๋ฉฐ ๋ค์๊ณผ ์ผ์นํฉ๋๋ค.ย ์ 175์กฐ, which focuses on improving the health of students while supporting local farmers.ย
โIt benefits the community, the students and also the local businesses,โ Cruz said. โFor me, being born and raised here on Kauaโi, I support the businesses 100% and if we can use more businesses, that would be great.โ
Hanalei Poi Company hopes poi becomes a lunch menu staple for its health benefits and as a way to support local farmers.
โWe are grateful and excited to supply fresh Hanalei Poi to Hawaiโi students and hope that it can become a staple on the school lunch menu as it is a healthy and nutritious locally grown food,โ Michaela Fitzgerald of Hanalei Poi Company said. โSupplying poi to Hawaiโi schools also helps to encourage farmers to continue to grow more taro into the future.โ
Last year the Department rolled out itsย first offering of fresh local poiย in over a decade to Oโahu schools, serving over 23,000 4-ounce servings from Pomai Kulolo LLC. Due to procurement limitations, participating Oโahu schools this year incorporated local uโala (sweet potato) into their lunch menus in lieu of poi.
โThe Department has synergistic goals to increase the amount of nutritious local food items to students, appropriately expend more funds in support of local suppliers and produce, educate students about local food resources, and educate farmers and vendors about state procurement compliance,โ Lindsay Rodrigues, Hawaiโi State Department of Education school food services program administrator, said.ย
์ด ํฌ์ด ํ์ฌ์ ์์ ํ์๋ค์ ๊ต์ก์ ์ํํ๊ฒ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ต์ก๋ถ๋ ๋์ฅ์์ ํ๊ต๋ก ๋คํธ์ํฌ์ ์ ์์์ ํ๊ต๋ก ๋คํธ์ํฌ์ ๋ฆฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ผ๋ จ์ ํ์๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์ ์ ๊ต์ฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ํ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋๊ตฌ๋ก ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ์์๊ฐ ์๋ ์์ต๊ด์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๊ณผ ํ๋ก, ๊ณ ๊ตฌ๋ง, ๋นต๋๋ฌด ์ด๋งค๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ฐฐํ๋ ์ด์ ๋๋ถ๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ฑ์ ๊ฐํํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ํด ๊ต์กํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
The Department is the stateโs largest institutional consumer of food products, serving over 100,000 student meals a day and continues to work closely with local vendors statewide to see how fresh local produce can be scaled across all schools in the future on a regular basis.ย
A Request for Information (RFI) for potential vendors was posted by the Department this past October, and a subsequent Request of Proposals (RFP) to provide HIDOE school cafeterias with local produce, proteins and packaged foods, will be released next.