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Involve residents

 Jun. 09, 2014

If your customers are not embracing new food trends such as healthier foods, then get them involved with projects like cooking demos and food tastings. It really works!

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MyPlate meal option

 Jun. 09, 2014

Washington University in St. Louis added a MyPlate meal option at the start of the spring semester as a simple way to serve a balanced meal and help educate students about proper portion sizes.

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School aims to be entirely plant-based

Jun. 09, 2014

As The Salt's been reporting, the quest to get more fruits, vegetables and whole grains into public schools has once again gotten political.

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Food costs makng it difficult to serve healthy food in schools

Jun. 06, 2014

The White House waded into in the middle of a Congressional food fight over how to regulate school lunch.

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Lunch choices are healthier, but students aren’t fully on board

Jun. 06, 2014

School lunch is not what it used to be. The jokes have written themselves over the years, stereotyping cafeteria meals ladled up by lunch ladies, trays filled with mystery meat and canned fruit cocktail, with ketchup counted as a vegetable.

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The story behind the school lunch debate

Jun. 05, 2014

First lady Michelle Obama and school lunch ladies used to be on the same team, but now they’re locked in a political war against each other.

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School lunch standards feed $10 billion controversy

Jun. 05, 2014

The ferocity of first lady Michelle Obama's counterattack against a proposal to temporarily waive school lunch standards shows what's really at stake in Congress: a $10 billion effort to wean Americans off junk food.

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Spoiled containers of milk being investigated at Prince William County cafeterias

Jun. 04, 2014

Prince William County cafeterias are not selling milk this week, after workers reported some spoiled containers of milk.

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Some hospitals are incorporating locally-grown food on menus

Jun. 04, 2014

Some hospitals throughout the country are starting to change, with tailor-made patient menus that use locally grown food and focus on fruits and veggies.

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East Texas schools aren't opting out of federal meals program

Jun. 03, 2014

Area school officials say economic concerns — and changing taste buds of students — are reasons they have no plans to opt out of federal healthier meal standards.

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