Sentences with phrase «cents per meal»

It's prepared with boiling water and costs only 23 cents per meal.

It is for all these reasons and more that President Barack Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 on December 13, 2010, a law that will not only change the nutritional guidelines of the 65 - year - old National School Lunch Program, but will also provide the program's first noninflationary budget increase in more than three decades; a total of $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes an additional 6 cents per meal, per child.

It will increase school food funding by 6 cents per meal.

As discussed at length here on TLT, the new school food legislation provides schools with only an additional six cents per meal served and it's unclear whether schools will be able to meet the new nutritional standards with that level of funding.

Note: The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week (and possibly even today) on the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the Senate bill that reauthorizes the Child Nutrition Act and which will, if passed, increase school food funding by 6 cents per meal.

This is because they have a «price ladder», so that the poorest families pay less than 20 cents per meal (yes, that's right, 20 cents).

The House must think the additional 6 cents per meal authorized by last year's bill was overly generous.

Current estimates place the proposed additional cost at fourteen cents per meal.

Calculations by the nonprofit National School Boards Association suggest the guidelines could add 11 cents to 25 cents per meal; the new rules, by contrast, would raise the federal reimbursement by only 6 cents.

Not exact matches

In other industries like meal packing a special Jewish branch of the business brings up the total: the kosher meat pack, for example, amounts to almost 10 per cent of the wholesale meat - packing total.

These meals can be purchased at a 50 per cent discount on the retail price, with Karma receiving 25 per cent of the sale price.

Eating between meals is extremely widespread with 96 per cent of Australians regularly consuming...

The two meals were a meat free and a non meat free dish, whose ingredients were respectively 30 and 15 per cent less costly in terms of harmful emissions than those of an average meal.

Questioned after tucking into their food, two - fifths of respondents said they would choose a Climate Choice meal «often», while over half (54 per cent) opted for «now and then».

According to the research, 38 per cent of Britons say they have bought meat - free meals, 13 per cent because of cost.

Worldwide, finfish and crustacean aquaculture consumes 60 — 80 per cent of fish meal and 80 per cent of fish oil (products of capture fishing bycatch and processing waste), and is therefore largely dependent upon continuing exploitation of marine resources.

Similarly, in the US, the NPD Groups Eating in America Study found that 44 per cent of all weekly meals are prepared in less than 30 minutes.

A BOOMING business selling hot pies and other ready - to - go meals to petrol station and convenience stores was not enough to counter a shift by supermarket shoppers to lower - priced packaged desserts, reducing margins for Patties Foods during the half and cutting interim profit by 16.5 per cent.

Sixty - six per cent of plant - based protein consumers said they eat these proteins in prepared meals, but traditionally animal - based products are popular vehicles, too, Mintel said.

Sixty - seven per cent of Americans said meat is essential to a balanced diet, and 51 % said they believe a meal is not complete without meat.

According to a recent survey by the Vegetarian Resource Group, 47 per cent of the US population eats at least one meat free meal each week.

Tesco also says that in the past year alone, demand for vegetarian ready meals and meat substitutes has rocketed 25 per cent.

canola meal, a by - product from canola oil processing, which contains around 40 per cent dietary fibre and 40 per cent protein

Launceston - based Tasmanian Pure Foods owns Bellamy's Organic, which produces infant formula, toddler milk, snacks, cereals and ready - to - eat meals, all made with 100 per cent Australian organic foods.

A report commissioned by the American Meat Institute and Food Marketing Institute in February revealed that 18 per cent of Americans are now regularly eating more meatless meals — which shows the positive effect that meat - reducing campaigns are having across the world.

But what is bad is that these regulations are an unfunded mandate; the Congressional funding increase provided to school districts — a mere six cents more per free meal — is woefully inadequate to pay for the better food.

-LSB-...] In addition, almost all school food advocates felt that the bill was grossly underfunded, providing only a six - cent - per - meal increase that was unlikely to significantly improve the food on kids» lunch trays.

But with the next Child Nutrition Act reauthorization not coming up until in 2015, and after the dismally low six cents - per - meal increase authorized in 2010, lobbying Congress right now doesn't make for sexy reality television.

In addition to the oats themselves being affordable (about four cents per serving) they make a highly - customizable meal — perfect if you are trying to please a picky eater, or a crowd.

Given all the «socialism» and «Big Government» rhetoric during the Obama health care debate, and given how hard it was to squeeze a mere six - cent - per - meal increase out of Congress in the latest CNA reauthorization, I would say the answer is, unfortunately, a resounding «no.»

And meals are subsidized — the lowest cost is just 20 cents per day in Paris!

Many of these kids» families earn just enough to miss the cutoff for eligibility for reduced price meals, but that is a far cry from saying that they can easily absorb a 10 or 20 cent increase per day for each of their kids» meals.

This year, for instance, it rose four cents, from $ 2.68 per meal to $ 2.72.

Last December, Congress reauthorized the Child Nutrition Act which increases the reimbursement schools receive per a meal by six cents.

With all the talk here and elsewhere about the (in) adequacy of the six - cents - per - meal... [Continue reading]

Oliver visited school kitchens and found they were dishing out poor - quality processed meat, usually with piles of french fries — at a cost of 65 cents per child per meal.

lRaise the federal reimbursement by 6 cents per lunch for school districts that comply with new meals standards to be issued by the Agriculture Department.

By eight months, just over 90 per cent of the infants were having daily finger foods, but 35 per cent of parents still felt that their children needed to be fully fed at meal times.

-LSB-...] to think that Congress was unable to come up with a six - cent - per - meal increase, which, if even if we'd gotten it, was going to come out of the mouths of people on food -LSB-...]

that its «ask» for an additional 35 cents per child per meal was never going to be a real priority for the organization.

-LSB-...] increase provided to school districts — a mere six cents more per free meal — is woefully inadequate to pay for the better food.

With all the talk here and elsewhere about the (in) adequacy of the six - cents - per - meal funding increase, it's easy to -LSB-...]

I don't know an exact figure, but certainly 35 cents, even if it applied to every meal served to every child regardless of family income (and not just 35 cents extra per lunch served to a child qualified for free) is not enough.

And to think that Congress was unable to come up with a six - cent - per - meal increase, which, if even if we'd gotten it, was going to come out of the mouths of people on food stamps.

95 per cent said their child has benefitted from eating a free infant school meal.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

With just seven per cent of gifted and talent pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.

Scottish education secretary Fiona Hyslop announced today pilot schemes involving 35,000 children aged between five and seven years had been a success, increasing overall uptake of meals from 53 per cent to 75 per cent.

The panel thought the drink tasted like a conventional diet soft drink, but they ate between 10 and 30 per cent less of the meal that followed.

Just like the rest of Africa, Zimbabwe, a country where 80 per cent of the 10 million population rely on wood to cook their meals, is running out of firewood.