school lunches

New Rules for Lunch at Schools

WebMD Health  Wed, 01/25/2012 - 13:29

boy sitting with lunch tray

For the first time in 15 years, the USDA has raised nutrition standards for school lunches.

Portions will be smaller. Kids will see fruits and veggies every day, and only low-fat or skim milk. But efforts to limit potatoes failed.


 

Congress pushes back on healthier school lunches

Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 11/15/2011 - 13:51

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Who needs leafy greens and carrots when pizza and french fries will do?...


 

New guidelines would make school lunches healthier

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 01/12/2011 - 19:25

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Schoolchildren would have to hold the fries - and pick up more whole grains, fruits and vegetables - on the lunch line under proposed new federal standards for school lunches....


 

Latest national security threat: Your kid's school lunch

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Tue, 04/20/2010 - 13:42

School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.


 

Are school lunches a national security threat?

Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 04/20/2010 - 03:01

WASHINGTON (AP) -- School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat....


 

Lawmaker wants probe of E. coli and school lunches

Headlines from the Associated Press  Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:30

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches....


 

Reading and Writing and Rigatoni: What's for Lunch at School?

washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 09/07/2009 - 09:15

Ann Cooper has been trying to fix school lunches for a decade.