Customers could win cash and merchandise prizes, courtesy of the Navy Exchange and its vendors. Hundreds of other prizes will also be given away during the anniversary sale. Sailors have expressed an increasing interest in getting healthier, more nutritious meal choices on board ship. Through USS Barry's open attendance monthly menu review board, the ship's food service operation now incorporates Sailors wishes and offers new menus full of healthy choices and low-fat options. Tommie Walker of Mobile, Ala., responded to the increased interest in healthier foods with a new menu that includes the use of ground turkey instead of beef, no oils or fats added to vegetables, a low fat option on burger and fried chicken days, an expanded salad bar with no-fat dressings, weekly baked potato bar and steamed rice at every meal.
Every nationality has especially healthy food combinations.
Before you know it, a good number of the crew have become fans of a healthy Mexican breakfast. You can stop in a cafe, find something that is terrific tasting and obviously good for you and usually get the management to give you their recipe, and then try it in the galley. It works like a champ. Since 1980, The Giraffe Project has been finding ordinary people acting with courage and caring to improve their communities, then having their stories told in schools and in the media as role-models for others. These sites were selected because of their strong network of successful personal excellence school partnerships.