Sentences with phrase «lunchroom fruit»

Our Project Produce grantees are using the lunchroom fruit and vegetable educational tasting as the impetus for change in their food program:

The salad bar tripled students» lunchroom fruit and vegetable consumption in the first year.

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Snapple started in the Brooklyn area of New York in 1972 when childhood friends Leonard Marsh, Hyman Golden and Arnold Greenburg saw more potential in fruit than just something to throw in the lunchroom.

Simply package fresh fruit, granola and your favorite yogurt into reusable containers and mix them at your desk or in the lunchroom for a satisfying, delicious breakfast or lunch.

Serving locally produced foods is a great lunchroom education tool that develops student's taste for vegetables and fruits.

Childhood friends Leonard Marsh, Hyman Golden and Arnold Greenburg saw more potential in fruit than just something to throw in the lunchroom.

It also urged school lunchrooms to serve more fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes and to dish out less salt, sugar and saturated fat.

These $ 2,500 grants provide funding to create planned lunchroom activities that will get kids sampling new fresh fruits and veggies.

Some children who are eligible for free / reduced price meals choose not to take advantage of the program because of the stigma attached to such meals, especially when there's an «a la carte» line in the same lunchroom offering such «cool» foods as Papa John's pizza and fruit slushies.

The Tribune paid a final lunchroom visit Wednesday to Von Steuben High School, where dozens of kids took foam trays loaded with nachos, fries, chocolate milk and canned fruit.

Still, many schools forbid students to take fruit out of the lunchroom, forcing children to throw away any fruit they are unable to finish in their short lunch period.

In the Greeley and Gresham schools and others we visited and in most of the elementary school lunchrooms throughout the city, children pick up their trays and file along a short cafeteria line that offers a serving of meat or an alternative, a vegetable, bread, fruit and milk.

On visits to lunchrooms in Chicago public schools, the Tribune watched as vast quantities of unpeeled fruit, vegetables, milk cartons and other items got pitched into the garbage.

«We serve salads in a little container, and we have fruits available to students in the lunchroom,» Daye said.

Project Produce is a grant program sponsored by Healthy Skoop and the Walmart Foundation which helps schools increase kids» access to fresh fruits and veggies and provides nutrition education through fun, lunchroom learning activities.

Leading the charge to roll back the regulations was none other than the SNA, whose constituents are now dishing out the fruits, vegetables and whole grains required by law in school lunchrooms across the nation.

Researchers in Cincinnati tested this plan in one city school's lunchroom by posting green smiley faces alongside the most nutritious foods: fruits, vegetables, fat - free milk (white, not chocolate), and entrees featuring whole grains.