Sentences with phrase «calorie minimums»

As a result, for decades districts have struggled to meet calorie minimums (you read that right — minimums) while not exceeding limits on fat.

How many calories minimum should a woman like me be consuming a day?

Right now (until the new school food regs take effect), schools need to meet calorie minimums set a long time ago, when hunger was more of an issue than obesity.

As Poppendieck explained in her book, back then the USDA was still imposing calorie minimums on schools, a legacy of the NSLP's original purpose as an anti-hunger initiative in the 1940s.

But given the growing concern regarding childhood obesity, in 2012 the NLSP's old calorie minimums were replaced with common sense calorie limits on each meal served.

My question exactly — in this age of childhood obesity, we stick cheese under the fried coating??? My only guess is that the school district must meet very high calorie minimums (as calculated over the course of a week) and this entree would obviously go far in that direction.

The good news, as noted in the Times article, is that under the new USDA school food regulations, calorie minimums for school meals are going down, and a broader variety of fruits and vegetables (not just corn and potatoes) will be offered.

They will not expect daily desserts, a crutch often used by districts in the past to meet the old regulations» calorie minimums.

Just to bring everyone up to speed: the old school food regulations only had calorie minimums, which made sense given the National School Lunch Program's original purpose of... [Continue reading]

In an effort to comply, many schools eliminated whole milk, but then found their meals falling below the calorie minimums set by the USDA.

Under the new rules, school meals will have calorie minimums and maximums per meal based on the child's age.

Just make sure that you still hit your 2000 or 2500 calorie minimum, and that you never force yourself to feel hunger between the meals.