Sentences with phrase «lunch program still»

Our oldest daughter has been in school now for two years, and I can testify that the American school lunch program still falls far short of excellent nutrition.

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The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

I'm not sure the economics really work that way, but I freely admit that the money side of the school lunch program has been the hardest for me to grapple with and I'm still not there yet.

I have two still in elementary school, it's a charter school so while they have a good lunch program, it is expensive.

We still have the vending machines and are going to be installing a vending machine that serves «full meals» and can be accessed biometrically (palm scan) by all students including the ones that are participating in the free / reduced lunch program.

In fact, 31 million kids used the school lunch program in 2012, and numbers are still strong today.

A spokesman for the USDA, which runs the school lunch program, said lean finely textured beef is still beef, though it is separated from fat through heat and centrifuge and treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill bacteria.

Still, advocates for the poor remain alarmed that with the potential for stepped - up auditing, many children would be dropped from the school lunch program even if their families meet the eligibility requirements.

Three local retired vets volunteered to serve cafeteria staff, as well as students during lunch, a program the district called «Still Serving.»

My child entered kindergarten this year at a school that does a lot of it's own fundraising for so many awesome supplies, field trips, enrichment programs - and yet there is still cheese sandwiches being served to children who own money on more than two lunches on their swipe card.

Despite threats from Capitol Hill to dismantle the federal school lunch program, there are still bound to be some changes in the cafeteria when kids go back to school this fall.

Do you have a sense of what percentage of parents do take advantage of the program vs. still pack a lunch?

Somehow reading this article and looking over and over at the graphics of the neediest States using the free or reduced lunch program slightly eased my own shame and / or guilt; because I still hardly believe this is our reality.

While we still have a lot of work to do in terms of reducing schools» reliance on highly processed foods, children dependent on the federal lunch and breakfast programs (as well as after - school snack and even school supper programs) can and do have access to nutritionally balanced meals each and every school day (and throughout the summer where summer meals are offered.)

«Most elementary school districts here still do n`t use it, «said Roz Nathan, director of the school lunch program for Cook County.

Still, she suspected that even this high - level meeting may have minimal impact on the juggernaut that is the National School Lunch Program.

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It is worth mentioning that the new meal program in Boulder still needs at least 1,000 more students to eat school lunch every day before it will come close to breaking even.

The Chef Ann Foundation has reached over 7,000 schools and 2.5 million children with healthier school food programs, but with over 98,000 schools in the U.S. and LOTS of highly processed food still on kids» lunch trays, we have our work cut out for us.

One of my schools was even serving more breakfasts than lunch for a while — that figure may have dropped after the newness of the program wore off, but it's still pretty impressive.»

But putting aside the replicability of Chef Boundas's program, I'm still glad he garnered media attention for his efforts and that he allowed me to interview him on The Lunch Tray.

Healthy and Hunger Free Now 65 years later, Truman's act provides daily lunch in 101,000 schools nationwide in urban, rural, and suburban areas, and the program still faces opposition.

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A student still new to the program has helped cook the lunch, so he is drawn out a little and asked to describe how he made the chili.

House Republicans caught a lot of heat from Democrats last winter over their plan, still pending, to dismantle the federal school - lunch program and wrap its funding into a child - nutrition block grant to the states.

They also did not face as daunting a task as they now do of integrating non-native speakers and special - needs students into the education system, while still budgeting for the school breakfast and lunch programs that many children depend on to get through the day.

It's still too early for most LAUSD schools to determine whether the new breakfast and lunch programs have had an impact on educational achievement, but Euclid teachers said they have noticed some positive signs.

Though the school lunch program currently intends to provide meals for low - income students who need it most, stigma and shame prevent many students — particularly at the high school level — from accessing these meals, which is especially troubling since childhood hunger is still a pressing concern across the nation.