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Culinary students take over lunch program

 Oct. 30, 2014

The Learning Center at Linlee decided to stop participating in the federal school lunch program.

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Milkshake bar

 Oct. 29, 2014

For dessert, The Yorktown Café offers hand-dipped milkshakes with ice cream made on site.

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Nebraska school district makes heathy lunches work

Oct. 29, 2014

As the Atlantic reports, the Lincoln Public School System (LPS) in Lincoln, Nebraska “has gone above and beyond the legal requirements, dishing out a daily vegetable smorgasbord.

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Alabama middle school tests new menu items

Oct. 27, 2014

Students at Discovery Middle School won't just determine the future by what they're learning in classrooms, they're determining what children across the state will eat by what they're learning in lunchrooms.

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Harvest Festival celebrates Boulder’s Food-To-Table program

Oct. 27, 2014

Mark Guttridge, of Longmont's Ollin Farms, handed out yellow, purple and orange carrot sticks on Sunday at the Boulder Valley School District's inaugural Harvest Festival while talking up the freshness and quality of local produce.

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Try it, you’ll like it

Oct. 27, 2014

To help persuade residents to try a new menu item, we will sometimes add it as a third entrée option, like our Pork Pagoda (pictured).

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Duval County high schools roll out food trucks

Oct. 27, 2014

Food trucks are popular and soon they will be rolling into Duval County high schools serving hot meals with the menu the work of student chefs.

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Hospitals participate in Food Day

Oct. 27, 2014

To celebrate Food Day 2014, 352 hospitals in the U.S. planned to serve at least one meat or poultry item raised without the routine use of antibiotics, according to Health Care Without Harm (HCWH).

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Healthy choice

By Marygrace Taylor on Oct. 23, 2014

Rather than bore students with dry stats on calories and fat, Wesley Delbridge, R.D., food & nutrition director for Phoenix’s Chandler Unified School District, is turning healthy eating into a game.

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2014 K-12 Census: Breakfast regs causing fewer problems than lunch

By Becky Schilling on Oct. 23, 2014

New breakfast regulations are easier to meet and are causing fewer negative student reactions than last year's lunch ones. That's borne out by statistics that show participation for the morning meal holding steady in the past two years. This year's K-12 Census Report also looks at the cost per meal, participation levels and the new competitive foods rules.

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