SEQUIM – This may come as a shock to those who believe teenagers live on junk food.
But Brian Roe and Deanna Huether, both 18-year-old Sequim High School seniors, say they crave – and would like to see – more nutritious, locally grown fruits and vegetables at the cafeteria salad bar.
“I’d eat carrots from Nash’s, and lettuce,” said Roe, referring to the organic vegetables grown a few miles from school.
“My mom’s a totally natural organic person” who’s taught her children well, he added.
Huether said she’d go for strawberries and other fruit from Graysmarsh.
Neither teen cares much for the food each finds in the cafeteria.
“It’s all processed. It’s like eating a plastic bag,” said Roe.
“Nasty, oily, greasy,” added Huether.
Her favorite beverage? Water – with the sandwich she makes at home.
But wait: “The [cafeteria] broccoli is delicious,” said Nick Dickson, also 18.
“The fruit and carrots are good, too.”
