Lunch Lessons at Culinary Boot Camp - Central Coast News KION/KCBA

SANTA BARABARA - Lunch lessons. Some local chefs are stepping out of their own kitchens and being trained to cook for your children in school.

Local chefs and caterers were hand picked for this challenge. If they pass the test they'll be placed in school kitchens to help make the switch back to scratch cooking.

Chef Adam Helm is back for Culinary Boot Camp week two. This time he's teaching the class and his students are volunteers. A retired scientist and a retired attorney pretend to be cafeteria workers.

Before Adam can be placed in a school he's got a lot to learn in the test kitchen. This is intense training!

Adam is learning to make school food healthy and cut fast food from the menu.

Serving up real food in a time of skinny school budgets. Learning math lessons to cut waste in schools, and reduce the waistlines of our children.

Adam will soon graduate from this training kitchen and face the toughest critics... our hungry kids!

This local training is paid for by the s'Cool Food Initiative one of the Orfalea Foundations.

You can sample the new s'Cool Food at the Sol Food Festival. It's taking place October 1st, 2011 from 10 to 6 and it's free.

The festival takes place in downtown Santa Barbara. The event features free food samples, cooking demonstrations and fun events for children.

Watch Jennifer Mandulay every Wednesday at 5 for another s'Cool Food report.