It looked like a small cup of light-orange goo. Most of the
students seemed hesitant to try it. But not Erick Tadeo. The
8-year-old immediately took a heaping spoonful of pumpkin
parfait, pronounced it was good and gave it two thumbs up. Jill
Wooten's kindergarten and Tomi Scofield's mostly first-grade
special day classes at Victoria Elementary School in Costa Mesa
got cooking Wednesday morning as part of the Network for a
Healthy California's mission to teach students about nutrition
and making healthy choices. Scofield's class helped make the
pumpkin parfait using the Harvest of the Month vegetable, and
Wooten's class ate "Stone Soup," after reading Marcia Brown's
children's classic by the same name. For the "Stone Soup"
lesson, pupils learned about the antics of three soldiers
tricking villagers into adding lots of different vegetables,
such as carrots, cabbage, onions and celery to their broths,
said Geoff Ianniello, the school district's nutrition services
operations manager for Network for a Healthy Cal