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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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Confessions of Thomas Cooley, R.D.

 Oct. 29, 2014

Thomas Cooley, R.D. makes his own nine-pepper hot sauce, hates bottled water and would love to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef.

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Building bonds

Oct. 28, 2014

To help build the bond between the two departments we started baking up a fresh batch of cookies after lunch and taking it to a clinical unit that we know has been having a hard day because of lots of patients or critical care issues.

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Want ketchup? That’s 25 cents.

Oct. 28, 2014

Operators looking to make a little extra dough by charging customers for condiments might not be happy with the result.

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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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Illinois school strike freezes foodservice

Oct. 27, 2014

Waukegan School District 60, last week, began the process required to resume food service to students during the ongoing teachers’ strike.

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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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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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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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September 2014: Creating Healthier Menus - Grain-based Salads

Oct. 24, 2014

Click through Snapshots of all the Creating Healthier Menus recipes from the September 2014 issue. This month features grain-based salads.

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