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Via Obama Foodorama, the Obama administration released the above sample menu of the changes that will be made to school lunches under the Childhood Nutrition Act, which Obama signed into law yesterday. These are simple and sensible; it’s only disappointing that it took an act of Congress to stop serving something called pizza sticks in favor of chef salad.

— Monica Potts

Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy.