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Use social media to introduce new concepts

Each fall, the University of Oklahoma hosts a food-sampling event called Tasty Tweets to introduce freshmen to dining concepts.

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Calif. district receives USDA grant to implement farm-to-school program

Officials at Plumas Unified School District say the $45,000 grant will impact more than 2,000 students.

The school’s policy to encourage families to pay off lunch debt has resulted in what critics are calling “sandwiches of shame.”

The new recommendations for how America should eat call for consuming less salt and more fiber and whole grains.

The members assumed their new posts Jan. 1.

Despite the ban’s good intentions to protect students with peanut allergies, it may have a negative financial impact, officials say.

Dalene Bowden, who was allegedly let go for serving a lunch to a student with no money, will not return to Pocatello-Chubbuck School District.

Former foodservice director Marilyn Volden will take on the role.

The honor went to an 11-year veteran whose signatures include a feedback mechanism on student menus.

St. Joseph Memorial Hospital only needs three or four servings of meatloaf, so instead of making a large loaf, they place the meatloaf mix into muffin tins.

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