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It’s easy to tell if kids like a recipe. Check the trash can.

One by one the kids here at Parthum Elementary School in Lawrence drop their plates into large plastic trash cans before heading to recess. Also getting dumped? A lot of steamed broccoli.

“Kids are brutally honest,” says Carol Noonan, manager of nutrition services for Lawrence Public Schools. “They’ll tell you if they like it or they don’t like it.”

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