K-12 Schools

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Wayzata high schools drop out of National School Lunch Program

Any parent will tell you that trying to get kids to eat healthier is tricky business, particularly for teenagers.

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Students throwing away lunches following new meal regulations

Zavalla students are throwing away more food than they're eating and leaving the cafeteria hungry.

We purchased aprons with the child nutrition logo on the front for our employees. I realized they were wrapping the aprons around their waists.

A northeast Ohio school district that discontinued a popular cafeteria cookie under new federal nutritional guidelines says it has heard from plenty of people commenting on the decision or wanting to place special orders for the treat, some from out of state.

A slew of volunteers man the Generals' Store at Wade Hampton High School, selling snacks to hungry high school students during breakfast and lunch hours.

Jessica has made an impact on foodservice by aligning menus to new regulations, managing special diets and implementing the TrakNOW system.

Mondays have become meat free in hundreds of school cafeterias across the Bay Area, a move praised by animal rights activists and environmentalists and condemned by the livestock industry for pushing politics into the lunch line.

It's no secret that there is a big national effort to combat childhood obesity by providing healthy food choices in public schools.

Click through Snapshots of all the recipes featuring beef from the September 2014 issue.

If you attended public schools, you likely remember the lunches you stared down as a student: Options were often unappetizing, institutional in appearance and probably unhealthy.

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