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It’s Time for Lunch: Slow Food Asheville invites the community to join a potluck to find out about getting more Real Food into our Schools.

Asheville will be one of more than 200 communities hosting "Eat-Ins" on Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2009. Asheville’s Eat-In will be at Carrier Park Picnic Shelter, from 5:00 to 7:30 pm.

This is a grassroots effort to provide area citizens with information about school lunches – the progress being made by programs like Farm to School and what is needed to provide our community’s children with Real Food: food that tastes good, is good for them, is good for the people who grow and prepare it, and is good for the planet.

Everyone is asked to bring a dish to share (it’s a pot-luck), plates and forks for you and your family if you can (a limited number of compostable plates and utensils will be available) and maybe a picnic blanket on which to enjoy the event. There will be music, activities for children and lots of information on getting involved.

Eat-Ins are being planned all over the country to draw attention to the need for real, healthy food for the more than 30 million children who participate in the National School Lunch Program, part of the Child Nutrition Act that Congress will reauthorize later this year. Interest in healthy foods has been growing since Michelle Obama has started the White House garden.

Even if you can’t have a home garden this effort is a way to increase healthy foods in the community. The whole community is invited to come, enjoy a potluck, get information, and get involved in improving the food served to our community’s children.