School graze

School's back in session for many students across the nation. And with it comes a multitude of stories on school nutrition:

L.A. Times has a first person by writer Melissa Healy on grocery shopping for school lunches with her two kids.

N.Y. Times takes a slightly different angle, looking at shifts in the kinds of foods served to kids and how they are being prepared - and the Safe Cupcake Amendment, a measure, which passed, ensures that parents may bring frosted treats to schools for celebrations.

Now, I'll admit that I probably could have benefitted from such a culinary turnaround in my school days. My school lunches used to consist mostly of candy - bad, but it was still better and quicker than the food in the cafeteria. To this day, I'm still hardly the role model when it comes to eating right (although my husband says that if I eat well all week he'll let me have that jelly donut I've been craving). But school probably would have been unbearable if I couldn't get a sweet treat or a soda to help soothe me when I had a bad day.