This document presents the program transcripts of a weekly series broadcast by member stations of National Public Radio. The program focuses on food in the schools. It addresses the following issues: plate waste in Chicago and Dallas; banning junk food and vending machines; the results of a vending machine junk food ban in West Virginia; California students' reactions to the junk food ban; the back to basic food movement; and Nutricare, a book on how to rate food according to its nutritional value. (Author/AM)