Jamie's Food Revolution Hits Hollywood

Series 1 Episode 1
First Broadcast: Tue 17 May 2011

Jamie's campaign gets off to a disastrous start when the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) - which is responsible for 650,000 school meals a day in the Los Angeles area - refuses to let him film in their schools.

Jamie decides to try to win over parents and teachers in the hope of persuading the authorities to change their mind: one outraged parent is disgusted that her child is offered 'nothing fresh' at school, and only processed foods cooked in plastic.

And he's confronted with the scale of the problem at a school food convention, when he discovers a seminar advocating flavoured (and sugar-laden) milk in schools.

Jamie stages a dramatic demonstration, filling a school bus with the 57 tonnes of sugar which the children of the LAUSD area consume every week, purely from their intake of flavoured milk. But it falls short with the local community.

Desperate for some good news, he attempts to create a healthy fast food menu in a local drive-through restaurant. But is his food revolution doomed before it's even started?

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