Ask a student to try a pizza and you have a lineup of volunteers. Include chili or lasagna and you collect more willing participants. Top the offer with strawberries and the helper list expands.

Ranging in age from 6 to 18, student testers responded to a variety of new food ideas with comments like, "but it didn't make me lose my appetite," to "not really a kid's recipe. No way would I make it again."Some offered suggestions to improve various recipes. Comments included, "I would get rid of the cream cheese," "needed a lot more sauce," or "My five brothers did not like it because of the broccoli. Take out the broccoli."

Is that President Bush's influence?

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The Deseret News expresses appreciation to students who tested recipes for the "No Books Day" Recipe Exchange.

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