As an attempt to increase involvement in the food industry, different schools were invited to create recipes that would be showed off in school menus if chosen as a top contender. The recipes would include a featured item from the menu. This contest allowed new ingredients to be experimented with by employees in the Chesapeake public school system in Virginia. The top three winners got prizes which included being noted favorably on the school systems website.

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