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Change up service items

Feb. 21, 2014

The amount of time children have to eat lunch is a challenge when it comes to having to take x amount of fruits and vegetables and actually have time to eat them.

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Erin Thacker, R.D.

Feb. 20, 2014

Erin Thacker, R.D., nutrition and wellness educator at Chesapeake Public Schools, Chesapeake, Va., has developed documentation and works closely with the nurses at each school to help these students participate in the school's program.

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Minnesota students become Food Explorers

Feb. 20, 2014

For 45 minutes each week, students in Jessica Busch’s class at Red Pine Elementary in Eagan are no longer just first-graders.

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Mass. schools racked up over $78K in unpaid lunch bills

Feb. 20, 2014

At Gloucester High School, lunch costs $3.50 a day. At O’Maley Innovation Middle School, it costs $3.40. And at the elementary level, it costs $2.90.

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Maine school chef adds game show for food education

Feb. 20, 2014

Start with an end-of-the-school-day assembly, mix in a game show and teachers dressed as fruits and vegetables, and you have a recipe for a food education.

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Some Minnesota schools deny lunch to students who can't afford it, study says

Feb. 12, 2014

The news story provoked national outrage as school children in Utah had their lunches tossed in the garbage because they didn’t have enough money to pay for them. But it turns out something similar is happening in Minnesota, as well.

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Chicago business provides made-from-scratch meals to local schools

Feb. 12, 2014

At first glance, Gourmet Gorilla's industrial kitchen in River North looks like any other, with oversized pots and pans, a whirl of aproned workers and rubber-matted floors.

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New Jersey school district stands behind ban on lunch deliveries

Feb. 12, 2014

The response to the Ridgewood School District's new ban on outside vendor lunch deliveries to village schools has amped up considerably.

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Operators react to lifting of protein, grain maxes

By Becky Schilling on Jan. 30, 2014

Last month the USDA permanently lifted the regulation that set maximums for the amount of grain and protein that could be served each week in school lunches.

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Reflections from SNIC

By Becky Schilling on Jan. 21, 2014

Sodium was top of mind at the School Nutrition Association’s SNIC conference last week.

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