Sentences with phrase «food served in schools»

If adopted, the bill would streamline and increase access for children to healthy food during the school day and mandate national nutrition standards for food served in schools.

Chances are, some meals and foods served in the school cafeteria are healthier than others.

Please did you read the recent Report about food served in schools?

50 % of a kid's daily calorie intake comes from food served in school, and this is why it's crucial to serve healthy food if we are going to fight obesity.

Karen Le Billon: And the French government has not been a big supporter of organic agriculture, although now they've passed a decree that twenty percent of foods served in schools has to be organic in the next year or two.

WSDA Farm to School and the Washington School Nutrition Association (WSNA) with support from Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Child Nutrition (OSPI), partner to sponsor Taste Washington Day, an annual celebration of Washington grown foods served in school meals during the fall harvest season.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is fighting to regulate commercial foods served in schools.

For example, municipalities may have restrictions on foods served in school cafeterias; policies may need to be modified to allow schools to serve foods grown in school gardens.

This group is specifically advocating for HR 1324 and S. 934: «Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2009,» which amends the Child Nutrition Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish science - based nutrition standards for foods served in schools other than foods served under the school lunch or breakfast programs.

Specifically, the SNA is seeking to weaken a requirement that all grain foods served in school meals be «whole grain rich,» that sodium levels be further reduced and that kids are actually served fruits and vegetables instead of being able to pass them by on the lunch line.

Ensure food served in schools is nutritious and balanced, including meals and snacks served within school facilities like tuckshops or vending machines, as well as at events such as fundraisers and sports days.

In an effort to improve the quality of foods served in its schools, CPS debuted new breakfast and lunch menus in the 2010 - 2011 school year that exceed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) HealthierUS School Challenge Gold standards, distinguishing...

A new set of standards for all food served in schools came into force on 1st January 2015.

We use a colorful labeling system to shows students how the food served in their school cafeteria nourishes their brain, bones, muscles and circulatory and digestive systems.

... That's what my mother always said,» said Davis, who has signed on to a March bill calling for higher nutritional standards in all food served in schools.

As part of the School Food Plan, a new set of standards for all food served in schools have been introduced.

And school food consultant Kate Adamick has a great (and funny) post on J.O.'s site listing questions to ask yourself when you're in the cafeteria, including «Are the foods served in my school's cafeteria aglow with colors not found in nature?

Hi Susan: My petition has nothing to do with the food served in schools.

After being outraged by the food served in her school cafeteria, Sara Wu started a blog called Fed Up With Lunch, which she wrote under the pseudonym of Mrs. Q. For a whole year, she ate her school cafeteria lunch and documented her experience with photos of her meals.

Schakowsky's proposed database is modeled in part on a system used by the Agriculture Department, which purchases about 17 percent of the food served in schools.

As part of the School Food Plan, a new set of standards for all food served in schools was launched by the Department for Education.

In an effort to improve the quality of foods served in its schools, CPS debuted new breakfast and lunch menus in the 2010 - 2011 school year that exceed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) HealthierUS School Challenge Gold standards, distinguishing... Read More

Food served in some schools and academies in England must meet the school food standards so that children have healthy, balanced diets.

A new set of standards for all food served in schools was launched by Education Secretary Michael Gove today (17 June 2014).

WCRF head of education Kate Mendoza said: «There is no doubt Jamie Oliver helped achieve great things for the food served in school canteens.

Ruth Jonen, food services director for Palatine Township High School District 211 in Chicago's northwest suburbs, defended the quality and safety of foods served in schools, saying they «by and large use the same food distributors as the restaurant down the road.»

About 17 percent of the food served in schools is donated by the federal government and undergoes stringent Agriculture Department testing for dangerous pathogens.

I'm very involved with Let's Move, Michelle Obama's plight to fix childhood obesity through the food served in schools.

About the mealplan: — Because I'm still in school and thus eat the food served in school, how can I still eat after the meal plan?

The new standards set out a series of minimum requirements for all food served in schools to ensure children are eating high quality, varied nutritious meals.

A new set of standards for all food served in schools was launched in June by former Education Secretary Michael Gove.

«We want to make it cool for kids to eat the food they serve in school,» says David Berkowitz, executive director of SchoolFood.

In June last year, the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, announced the introduction of a new set of standards concerning the food served in schools, that would replace the incentives put in place between 2006 and 2009 by chef Jamie Oliver.

A new set of standards for all food served in schools came into force on 1st January 2015.

Via The Faculty Lounge I see that at least one public school in Chicago has decided that parents are so lousy at packing nutritious lunches for their kids that it has made eating the food served in the school cafeteria mandatory.