Sentences with phrase «healthful kids meals»

A recent survey by the National Restaurant Association of more than 1,800 chefs, all members of the American Culinary Federation, shows that for 2013, the top three menu trends for restaurants this year will be locally sourced meat and seafood, locally grown produce, and healthful kids meals.

Healthy foods continue to top the trends with healthful kids meals coming in as one of the top three trends of 2017

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Toss with pasta and you've created a low cost, kid - friendly, and time - efficient and healthful meal.

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In a December 2013 press release, NRA officials noted, «Compared with five years ago, items that have remained top 20 food trends include locally grown produce, healthful kids» meals, gluten - free cuisine, sustainable seafood, and health / nutrition.»

Many are lacking key pieces of kitchen equipment that would help them prepare fresh, wholesome school meals, according to a recent report from the Kids» Safe and Healthful Food Project.

It was hard for me to imagine the situation getting much uglier, until yesterday's email presented the truly bizarre spectacle of the very people dedicated to preparing healthful school meals seeking to discredit reliable evidence that kids actually like those meals.

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.

One of those positive responses came from the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a joint effort between The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve school meals.

Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday.

As of 2013, 88 percent of school districts needed at least one additional piece of kitchen equipment to help prepare and serve meals that meet the National School Lunch Program's nutrition standards, according to a survey by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act will expand the number of children in school lunch programs by 115,000, increase the reimbursement rate to school districts for meals by six cents and replace the junk food available outside the cafeteria, such as in vending machines, with more healthful options.

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.

Disney will also continue its practice (instituted in 2006) of automatically including healthful beverages and sides, such as carrots and low - fat milk, in all kids» meals served in Disney's theme parks (unlike McDonald's recently «improved» Happy Meal where parents must opt - in for milk over soda), while promising to further reduce the sodium in its kids meals and to offer more balanced kids» breakfast options.

To examine how school meal programs have encouraged good decisions among their students, the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project — a joint initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — commissioned a nationally representative sample of school nutrition department directors.

«Nearly all Alabama schools are serving the healthier meals now required, and this poll shows that parents are on board with these changes,» said Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaboration of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

For example, a health impact assessment conducted by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project found that when schools implement healthier standards for snack and a la carte foods, students are more likely to purchase a school meal — a change that improves children's diets and school budgets at the same time, because schools earn reimbursements for meal sales.

«Healthier meals are now the norm in Kentucky schools, and this poll shows that parents approve of these changes,» said Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaboration of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

If we had more funding for food, the task of feeding kids a healthful, less processed meal would be far easier to accomplish.

A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts» Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, also expected to be released Monday, said that 91 percent of school food officials the group surveyed said they face challenges in putting the standards in place, including problems with food costs and availability, training employees to follow the new guidelines, and a lack of the proper equipment to cook healthier meals.

Toss with pasta and you've created a low cost, kid - friendly, and time - efficient and healthful meal.

27 Fighting for better indoor air quality in schools; eating better could earn kids cash; schools chief wants tastier, more healthful lunches to boost sales; school program teaches students, parents to cook more healthful meals.