Sentences with phrase «carte lunch line»

in junior high, i was super stoked on the a la carte lunch line.

06.27.2013 HUMAN Healthy Vending Aligns with USDA to Provide «Smart Snacks in School» Nationwide Today, the USDA finalized its national school nutrition standards for «competitive foods,» which are all foods and beverages sold to students on campus during the school day, typically through vending machines, a la carte lunch lines and in student stores.

This USDA initiative targets «competitive foods,» which are all foods and beverages sold to students on campus during the school day, typically through vending machines, a la carte lunch lines and in student stores, other than those meals reimbursable under federal meal programs.

The proposed standards will affect items sold in vending machines, a la carte lunch lines and in student stores.

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They're often on the front line, dealing with children who are tired and / or excitable after a lunch of empty calories from the a la carte line, and they may be your best allies.)

And when those items are available a la carte, it means that many kids will make their lunch from them on a daily basis, and without the accompanying and healthful fruits, vegetables and dairy they'd get in the federal meal line.

Over at Slow Food USA's blog, a student described and photographed this unbelievable concoction, sold in his cafeteria as an «a la carte» option for kids who don't want to wait in the long lunch line.

If students are inappropriately taking pics in the lunch room or elsewhere, that is a separate issue from whether we should have the a la carte line or not.

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

Let's examine whether we could follow the lead of forward - thinking districts like San Francisco USD by getting rid of our «a la carte» lines entirely, so that all kids can get a balanced meal (instead of grabbing nachos and a slushie and calling it lunch) and no Houston kid gets his picture put on Facebook to shame him for eating in the «poor kids & # 822....

Yet, as Poppendieck and many others have noted, in some schools there are actually two lines — or even two eating areas — which visibly divide the paying a la carte consumers from those receiving the regular lunch.

Thus, hot meals and a la carte items are intermingled in so - called blended lunch lines.

And when it comes to the district's «a la carte» lines, which is where the child above obtained his or her bright orange «lunch,» I'd like HISD to take seriously its mission to offer «the highest level of nutrition possible.»

Though snacks are the target, the standards will also apply to items sold a la carte on school lunch lines, like pizza.

Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (returning to the old system in which kids could — and often did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell on a daily basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only on the same day they appeared on the main lunch line.

But it is not just breakfast and lunch menus that have changed; vending machine options, a la carte lines, food - based fundraising practices, and more are being improved to meet the updated school nutrition rules that began to take effect in the 2012 - 13 school year (SY).

and elaborated on in subsequent posts (e.g.,» A Follow - Up to the Infamous «Cheetos - and - Nach0 - Sauce» Photo «-RRB-, the shame of being seen in line for the federally reimbursable meal can prevent economically disadvantaged children from eating lunch, a problem that's exacerbated when when attractive, for - cash - only, snack - bar items are also made available by schools in so - called «a la carte» lines.

I cringe a little when I remember how much time I spent in the a la carte line, but I'm thankful that I had staff who would actively encourage me to make healthier choices, pointing out the fresh fruit that was next to the chips, or telling me what was for sale in the longer «hot lunch» line that day.

One thing that really struck me was seeing for the first time a cafeteria layout that required two separate lines, one for the subsidized school lunch and one for the a la carte food.

«The students seem to like the new items in the la carte line and the regular lunch line,» Caudle shared.