Rachael Ray's New Gig: NYC Public Schools Lunch Lady

NEW YORK CITY — Rachael Ray has a delish new job: lunch lady for New York City's schools.

The celebrity chef and TV host will help develop plant-based meals for the city's public school children, officials announced Tuesday.

Ray is part of a 12-person "Chefs Council" tasked with creating more than 100 recipes for all schools across the five boroughs, officials said.

“Teaching students at a young age to eat healthy, nutritious meals is critical to setting up them up for success,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement.

“The new Chefs Council will develop delicious, nutritious, culturally relevant meals for schools with direct input from students and parents.

Adams, a vocal (if not entirely strict) vegan who credits a plant-based diet with reversing his diabetes, has pushed to bring healthier fare to the city's schools.

And, let's be honest, the meals at the city's schools aren't exactly "Yum-o," to borrow one of Ray's many arguably annoying catchphrases.

Students at Baccalaureate School for Global Education in Queens even started an Instagram account to document and review the less-than-appetizing fare served for their school lunches.

"Mac n cheese: tastes as bad as it looks," one post states. "I could recreate this same exact taste by spraying some easy cheese on some cardboard then stuffing it into a dirty sock and preheating that roll in 375 for 10 minutes."

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Based on those reviews, it appears New York City's students will be open to some of Ray's "EVOO."

The school lunch program will be run in partnership with Wellness in the Schools, a nonprofit that aims to promote healthy eating.