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The ketchup as a vegetable controversy stemmed from proposed regulations of school lunches by the USDA ' s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) in 1981, early in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The regulations were intended to provide meal planning flexibility to local school lunch administrators coping with cuts to the National School Lunch ...
In FY 2011, federal spending totaled $10.1 billion for the National School Lunch Program. [3] The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows USDA, for the first time in 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children. [4]
The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 United States federal law that created the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to provide low-cost or free school lunch meals to qualified students through subsidies to schools. [1]
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.
A Minnesota high school is facing criticism for serving a meal that many people have since called "ridiculous." High school sparks controversy over 'ridiculous' lunch: 'It's honestly sad' Skip to ...
The call to ban packed lunches comes amid claims they are contributing to childhood obesity. Prue Leith sparks debate about whether schools should ban packed lunches [Video] Skip to main content
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 ...
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 ...