Hamburg Middle School -- The Final Day of Taste Testing Healthy Buffalo Style Chicken Wraps for Chefs to Schools Week in Hamburg

It was a super successful week for our Chefs to Schools Week in Hamburg Central School District.  Seeds of Living Education coordinated the volunteers, Hamburg Central Food Service, and the parent volunteers which numbers around 40! to visit and set up taste testing of our yummy and healthy Buffalo Style Chicken Wrap -- which was a blend of whole white meat chicken, chick pea hummus, Hidden Valley Ranch Blue Cheese Dressing, celery and Buffalo's Own Frank's Famous Hot Sauce wrapped in a whole grain wheat wrap served up with a side of Ranched Up Salsa or Hidden Valley Ranch!

Our Food Service staff with Linda Muldoon at the helm along with Chefs Steven Binks and Chef Pat Koch made between 4000 bite size wraps for the students to taste.  There was overwhelming approval.  Our empirical data (we surveyed the students for likes) was a near 60% approval rating for a new lunch food offering.  Many students liked the wrap so much, they took seconds, thirds and fourths, etc! 

We served almost 98% of the samples made -- so that means most children were willing to at least try the sample even if they ended up not preferring it. 

We asked for recommendations that might make the wrap even tastier ... some suggestions included having it warm, leaving out the blue cheese and using cheddar or other mild yellow cheese instead, having more crunch in the form of celery or other veggies. 

It was fun and exciting to have our children, the ultimate consumers of the school lunches, to be the taste testers.  Seeds of Living Education is extremely thankful to Linda Muldoon and her awesome staff, Chefs Binks and Koch and all the parents volunteers and of course, our STUDENTS!!