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National School Lunch Week (Oct. 14-18) is supposed to celebrate the benefits of healthy school meals. But sadly, there's very little to celebrate, in my view. In 2023, the National School Lunch ...
What makes school lunch so contentious, though, isn’t just the question of what kids eat, but of which kids are doing the eating. As Poppendieck recounts in her book, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, the original program provided schools with food and, later, cash to subsidize the cost of meals.
Food and beverage giant Kraft Heinz, announced Tuesday that it would remove Lunchables from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which provides discounted or free meals to over 30 million low ...
Obesity crisis: pizza, pastries, chips, donuts, cookies, hot dogs, and burgers – just your average school lunch.
While school meal prices vary throughout the country, a survey conducted by the School Nutrition Association, a trade organization, found that lunches typically cost about $2.83 for elementary ...
The 1920s. School lunch evolved into bread, stews, boiled meat, and creamed vegetables. Home economics classes began having girls prepare lunches as part of their curriculum — a first glimpse of ...
As early as the late 19th century, cities such as Boston and Philadelphia operated independent school lunch programs, with the assistance of volunteers or charities. [11] Until the 1930s, most school lunch programs were volunteer efforts led by teachers and mothers' clubs. [12] These programs drew on the expertise of professional home economics ...
WORCESTER ― Parents and students Thursday expressed concerns over the quality of school lunches, and the variety of food available, noting some students have dietary restrictions, in some cases ...