One prominent food writer even suggested that bands of rich kids — kids with «parents making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year» — were mooching
cheap food in schools here in the nation's capitol.
Not exact matches
Tuna
in salad is not really a personal favorite for me, might be since I ate too much tuna when I went to
school (simple and
cheap food for a poor student).
We're operating under an antiquated farm policy that still benefits Big Ag today and results
in the dumping of
cheap, unhealthy USDA commodities and precooked processed
food on U.S.
school food programs.
Focusing on the nutrients that are
in a
food product rather than looking at the impact of the
food as a whole causes
schools to focus on looking for
cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their students.
To top it all off, breakfast has the lowest price point of almost any restaurant meal, so we need to be fast, efficient, smiley and
cheap, not easy
in today's world — never mind
in the world of
school food.
As I've articulated
in many posts, but perhaps most succinctly
in this one («My Response to Beef Industry Defenses of «Pink Slime»») there are many reasons to oppose the undisclosed use of this
cheap filler
in our
school food and our
food supply without even discussing
food safety.
This may appear to be a
cheaper method of dealing with a
food service provider, but
in fact the
school district would have much less control over the individual meal items Aramark is serving.
It's easy, then, to see the appeal to a
school district of a
cheap, processed
food like graham crackers, which are relatively low
in fat but provide a fair number of calories, and which also are artificially fortified by the manufacturer to provide key nutrients like iron.
I taught at a lycee
in the south of France for a year, and the
school food was amazing... and
cheap.
Roundtable participants said some other factors affecting the implementation of nutritious
school menus include high schools with open campuses, which drastically lower cafeteria attendance and force food - service professionals to buy the cheapest, and often the least healthy, meals; and some schools» stigmatization of pupils who participate in the National School Lunch Pr
school menus include high
schools with open campuses, which drastically lower cafeteria attendance and force
food - service professionals to buy the
cheapest, and often the least healthy, meals; and some
schools» stigmatization of pupils who participate
in the National
School Lunch Pr
School Lunch Program.
In the Daily Telegraph, Prof Russell Viner, RCPCH president, said: «Kids are coming out of
school hungry and finding themselves surrounded by
cheap chicken shops, chip shops and other types of junk
food.
They will grow up stunted
in stature and damaged
in their brains, all because they lack access to
cheap electricity, running clean water and sewer facilities and clothes washing and refrigeration and
schools and houses and adequate supplies of fertilizer - grown
food that electricity enables.
That education could begin
in schools, where kids could be taught to make basic,
cheap, healthy
food such as omelets, soups, and pastas, and then pass that knowledge on to their parents.