Districts cooking up ideas for making meals healthier

DANVILLE – Brenda Demos put more soy in her school lunches at Liberty School – with mixed results.

"It was a healthy new idea," said Demos, a Danville school district employee for more than 30 years who's in charge of food service. She worked with University of Illinois dietitians to try to find new ways to serve lunches fortified with high-protein soy.

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