By Mike Hughlett, Chicago Tribune Dec. 31---- Gloria Ford began noticing a few months back that her grocery costs were spiking, particularly for milk and eggs. "I've joked, 'Did the chickens go on strike?'" she said last week, fresh from a trip to a Berwyn supermarket.

By The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS - Maybe getting schoolchildren to eat healthy foods isn't a hopeless struggle.

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS Maybe getting schoolchildren to eat healthy foods isn't a hopeless struggle.

Bucking some common notions, a University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don't decline when healthier meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don't necessarily cost schools more to produce.