Sentences with phrase «lunch line with»

So what does a school do when a hungry kid comes through the lunch line with no meal card?

She told me they linger sadly on the lunch line with only one or two takers.

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She also has more time to go shopping, stay active with tai chi and line dancing, spend time with her four grandkids, or go to lunch with friends, most of whom are fully retired.

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The classic pastor's greeting line, «We're just one big happy family» ranks right up there with «I haven't got a racist bone in my body,» «I don't like yes - men,» and «We've got to get together for lunch — real soon» as classic patent insincerities.

As I inched down the long lunch line, I watched jolly hair - netted lunch ladies ladle a piping hot chunky tomato sauce filled with ground beef and onions over steaming hot buns, and was filled with eager anticipation.

Before that, they hand out paper white lunch sacks and little candles and everyone on our street lines the street with luminaries.

This is the opening of The Lunch Line Fight: Looking at Different Perspectives, by Tosca Killoran and Jeff Hoffart, part of a series of 10 paperback books with a focus on citizenship, mindfulness, empathy, character and social - emotional skills, presented in story book format.

We will work with teachers and staff to organize tasting events and harvest of the month activities so when students get to the lunch line they'll want to try the options that are there.

It's small, only about a block, but it's lined with fruit and vegetable vendors, a hummus stand, fresh flowers, farm chicken eggs and most days I'll stop by before or after lunch (and occasionally I'll just grab my lunch there).

PRO TIP: The weekday lunch rush can get intense, with lines down the block between noon and 2 p.m.; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. is the sweet spot if you want to secure a seat and a shorter wait.

My tree - hugger in training (with her eco-friendly backpack & lunch bag) following daddy and Julian to line up for class

So if a student reaches the end of the cafeteria line with, say, a meat patty and broccoli, the lunch worker is likely to suggest adding a milk to complete the meal.

«It would be wonderful if the USDA made all the regulations in the National School Lunch Program line up with science,» Levin said.

Preparing lunches doesn't have to be a dreaded assembly line of slathering slices of white bread with peanut butter and jelly.

The new «zip line» will offer cold lunches already bagged for the student, meals that include yogurt, grains, fruit and veggies with milk.

When the children go through the lunch line they are allowed the following choices: 1 entree which is a choice between 2 hot items, or a ham or turkey sandwich with cheese and lettuce on a dry bun, a peanut butter and jelly (prepackaged) sandwich, or occasionally a spicy chicken wrap, a cup of low - fat plain yogurt parfait with grapes and granola topping, or a 2 - cup portion salad (usually a chef salad with a smattering of chopped lunchmeat or a chicken Caesar salad).

I'm not complaining — my waistline is shrinking and that's a good thing for me — but I'm pained every day watching my hungry kids stay hungry after eating lunch and nearly every day I have to comfort sad children who don't understand why they can't eat what they want when they are presented with a long line of choices.

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 we'll end the course with marketing insights to help you promote the delicious menu you've created so that more kids will come through the lunch lines.

We will work with teachers and staff to organize tasting events and harvest of the month activities so when students get to the lunch line they'll want to try the options that are there.

But the longest line leads to lunch workers grabbing paper dishes full of yellow corn chips, topping them with a ball of ground meat and then smothering the ensemble in hot orange cheese product.

Balancing the need to keep their interest in lunch with children's inherent need for familiarity can be tricky, to say the least... so I'm walking the line just like everybody else, between packing what I know he'll eat and what I want him to eat.

It can be a photo of a school lunch tray with a pasta entrée or side salad; it can also be a salad bar or serving line with featuring a pasta dish; it can be a photo from your school kitchen where cooks are preparing your students favorite pasta menu item.

Paid meals: Meals that meet the nutritional requirements of the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program and are served to children with household income above 185 percent of the poverty line at a price set by the school district or school food program

Free meals: Meals that meet the nutritional requirements of the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program and are served at no charge to children with household income at or below 130 percent of the poverty line

And in California a three - year program testing two methods of controling dietary content of lunches for 250,000 students has brought the average fat content from 38 to 40 percent of total calories to 29 to 33 percent, nearly in line with national guidelines.

They expect their children to be taught to get along with everyone — even bullies, to stand in lines quietly and to line up to do things like going to the bathroom, going to lunch, and attending assemblies.

Thompson says many kids he knows with negative accounts forgo the lunch line altogether to avoid embarrassment.

(For new TLT readers, Wilma is an anonymous school food professional somewhere in the US who occasionally helps me out with her valuable perspective from «behind the lunch line.»)

My kids have always brought a packed lunch and, while they are in the minority, they are happy with their meals and the extra time they gain, not having to stand in a long line for food.

to line up with a lunch tray, eat with your child, and talk to the people who serve up the food day in and day out.

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every child eating school lunch, whether it's the a la cart garbage, or the slightly less garbagy line with no - fat milk, processed chicken and a pesticide sprayed waxy apple is starved.

For example, in 2011, I wrote a post about impoverished students here in Houston being photographed with cell phones in the lunch line and shamed by their peers on social media.

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And if you live in Houston, plan to attend «Lunch Line,» a documentary presented by our friends at www.thelunchtray.com in conjunction with Applegate Farms.

-LSB-...] last week at the Lunch Line screening I was talking with one of our panelists, Brian Giles, General Manager of -LSB-...]

White - leather swivel stools with decent back support line the long sushi bar; beyond that are free - standing wood - grain tables and molded - wood chairs, and a remote marble counter is equipped with electric outlets for the lunch - and - laptop types.

Some officials claim students won't eat vegetables when they're served, but in my experience working with schools, students have been extremely open to trying new healthful items in the lunch line.

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.

We had a lunch card and we bought lunch in the regular line with everyone else and they swiped our card before ringing up our lunch and we paid the reduced rate.

With any luck, the efforts of lobbying groups and researchers, and influence of documentaries such as Lunch Line, will yield some real reform to our botched lunch proLunch Line, will yield some real reform to our botched lunch prolunch program.

While Lunch Line does a tremendous job explaining the mind - numbing complexities of the USDA's sorted relationship with the School Lunch Program, the good news is that we don't need to wait for a drifting barge to self - correct — parents and principals can make dramatic improvements, right now, for free.

«Powerful... Lunch Line does a tremendous job explaining the mind - numbing complexities of the USDA's sorted relationship with the School Lunch Program.

My kids eat a school lunch every day, they get a balanced, hot meal that even in the 15 minute lunch hour (including standing in line time) they can finish because they are not tracking down their lunch boxes, they are not opening containers and baggies and they are not spending time trying to trade out with their friends, because everyone has the same things....

Although the film has national reach, Lunch Line is a Chicago story through and through: at the post-screening discussion, the co-directors, Michael Graziano and Ernie Park, found themselves reunited with several of the food - service experts, policy wonks, corporate executives and community activists depicted in their film.

Lunch has been shortened to a pitiful 20 minutes including lining up with the tray and then cleaning up.

When Undersecretary of Agriculture Ellen Haas took on the job of upgrading the nation's school lunch program, nutritionists, educators and consumer advocates had high hopes she could wrest the 48 - year - old system from the grip of bureaucracy and bring it in line with contemporary scientific thinking.

With so many options given to kids, how will this reform change anything other than what's offered in the hot lunch line?