Sentences with phrase «meals cost more»

Every now and then, an article will appear somewhere touting a «school food miracle worker» who is able to serve what appears to be healthier, higher quality food than what is typically found in school lunch programs, and sometimes the claim is made that the meals cost no more than what a typical school district spends on a less healthy meal.

The issue shouldn't be whether healthier meals cost more up front, but rather how much more we as a society pay to deal with the aftereffects of dealing with kids who are both overweight and malnourished from eating a diet of crappy food.

Our meals cost more to the parents because they cost more for us to make.

Not exact matches

Freshly's Wystrach told Fortune that Nestle's investment would help the startup open more facilities and continue to meet rising demand for the company's service, which costs $ 8.99 per meal.

Reimbursable expenses include hotel costs, meals, ground transportation to and from the airport, and more.

Taco Bell combo meals and premium products — like the XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito and the Fiesta Taco Salad — can cost $ 5 or more.

Some teach that you must always pray over every meal if it costs more than 50 cents or if you have to eat it with a fork.

The delivery charge on Quipup costs almost as much (and if not more) than a meal itself.

There's also nothing more cost effective and time saving than cooking a wholesome family meal and then transforming and repurposing the ingredients to use for other meals throughout the week.

As usual, I went halfsies with the meat and vegetables to reduce costs and sneak more vegetables into the meal.

Our price point is far higher than the typical school lunch (most of our full meals cost in the mid - $ 4 range), and as a result, we have more money to spend on ingredients and making meals from scratch.

(For more on the funding issue, check out school food reformer Dana Woldow «s excellent piece on how the new nutrition requirements will effectively force many districts, especially those in which labor and food costs are high, to start (or continue) dipping into classroom funds to pay for school meals.)

DR: Yes, healthier meals do cost more money.

She makes the common sense argument that failing to pay for more healthful meals up front will only result in higher health care costs on the back end, and she considers a variety of ways to pay for universal lunch, such as a tax on soda or soda advertising, an increase in the capital gains tax, or by reducing income guarantees and price supports to producers of corn and soy.

While meal prices and USDA reimbursement rates provide more money, that also goes to pay for labor, equipment and overhead costs.

If the price charged for paid meals, combined with the federal per - meal subsidy, covered the costs of these meals (or equaled the federal per - meal reimbursement for free meals), more funds could be put toward providing more nutritious meals, providing better compensation and professional support to food service staff, or other improvements that would benefit children.

The lunch program in 2007 served more than 5 billion meals to more than 30 million children at a cost of $ 10.9 billion, a figure that includes breakfast and milk costs.

Salem school meals and season passes to cost more in 2011 - 12 (July 29, 2011): News about meal costs and reimbursement rates from Salem, MO..

... if there's concern when the cost is $ 1, would people be happy that the meal was provided or even more wary because there would be a perception that it would be even worse if free?

But to the extent some districts (because of labor costs, size of the free / reduced population, lack of facilities, etc.) can't match those exemplary meals, I'd love to get parents more up in arms over school meal funding as well.

By planning in advance, you can cut back costs on often expensive items or outings such as meals, theme park entries, concerts, activities to keep the kids occupied, accommodation and more.

As the vast majority of students who eat school lunch are qualified for free / reduced, it really doesn't cost any more to also make that meal available for purchase by students whose families don't qualify for govt subsidy.

Also, included are tips to make school meal preparations simpler and more cost effective.

As participation increases, however, those fixed costs do not increase at a commensurate level (e.g., labor costs might go up slightly if more meals are served, but building costs or the costs of lighting the cafeteria remain fixed.)

If you're more on top of meal planning than us, making dinner would be an easy, more cost - effective way to go too.

Similarly, the GOP's own estimates of the costs of requiring more fruits and vegetables, whole grains and low - fat dairy in school meals is $ 7 billion over five years, but the direct cost of obesity - related diseases in this country is pegged at $ 147 million (putting aside the other benefits of feeding children well, apart from curbing obesity.)

While our commitment to quality, and to handmade, real, fresh food costs us more to produce than using conventional ingredients, «big food» industrial processes, and shipping frozen meals, we believe it is worth the extra expense and effort, and we think you will too.

Cafeterias sell competitive foods not because SNA members are out to ruin kids» health with snacks of questionable value, but because a $ 3 per free lunch payment from the government is not, in many cases, enough to cover the costs of putting that meal on the table, and more revenue has to come from somewhere.

The competition showcases the hard work and creativity of Middle School teams across the district as they are challenged to plan a reimbursable lunch menu that includes the appropriate meal components (meat / meat alternate, grain, milk, fruit and vegetable), follows the USDA National School Lunch guidelines, and costs no more than $ 1.20 for the entire meal.

How this bill will help: The Access to Nutritious Meals for Young Children Act will strengthen the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by adding meal or snack options for children who need them, helping cover the cost of more meals for children who are in care for longer hours, and making more child care providers eligible for assistMeals for Young Children Act will strengthen the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by adding meal or snack options for children who need them, helping cover the cost of more meals for children who are in care for longer hours, and making more child care providers eligible for assistmeals for children who are in care for longer hours, and making more child care providers eligible for assistance.

But whether you're new to summer meals or a veteran, there are tips and tricks for fine - tuning operations for a more sustainable, cost - effective program.

Just one new piece of equipment helped schools improve nutritional quality and variety, entice more students to eat school meals, and operate more efficiently and cost - effectively.

We offer some meals at the high schools that cost more for the paid students, but the kids on the program can also have for their meal.

Participating districts reported higher breakfast and lunch participation and were significantly more likely to report that the federal reimbursement rate was sufficient to cover the cost of producing a reimbursable meal.

It depends on too many variables, most of which are not fully within the control of the person running the meal program — getting more paying kids to buy the school lunch, keeping volatile food costs under control (remember the spike of 2008?

That is, our meal program, with the whole grains, salad bars, fresh fruit daily including fruit (not juice) at breakfast, and all the other improvements we have made, costs more that the current revenue we bring in.

I think that's because (a) the SNA holds a particularly respected position as the representative of the very people serving school meals and (b) what the SNA is asking for costs nothing and creates an easier path for school food workers and Congress, whereas supporting healthier school meals is a harder road (for some schools) that may require more funding from an unwilling Congress.

The cost of complying with new federal meal guidelines that call for more fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, and less salt, may well force cash - strapped schools to raise the price of lunch and breakfast.

An argument often used by the baby food industry is that their products are more cost effective to your household budget than making your own home meals and purees.

Again, more money required to make UF reimbursement cover the full cost of running the meal program.

In most cases, using the same ingredients, it does cost more to scratch cook meals from the raw state.

We did the meal plan the last time we went to Disney and it still ended up costing more money because of trip planner didn't tell us a couple of the restaurants used 2 meals.

In the past, I have sometimes been called a «naysayer» for insisting that the conversation about the real costs of school meal program improvements should be open and honest, as if saying that improvements cost more is the same thing as saying we shouldn't have improvements.

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

A relatively well - to - do community, with perhaps only 35 % low income students, may be better able to support a paid meal price of $ 4 or more, to help cover the cost of scratch cooking and better quality food, than a district with 60 % -70 % low income students.

That's why we have to fight for more money for school meals, that and because it can cost more to buy the foods needed to cook from scratch.

Given the number of lawmakers who normally seek reimbursement for their meal and lodging costs, the daily cost of the extraordinary session will top more than $ 30,000 per day in per diems, not including mileage reimbursements or staff expenses and other costs not easily measured.

More than # 100,000 has been splurged on wining and dining other MPs and visiting foreign politicians - including just one meal with then Australian Speaker Bronwyn Bishop in May 2014 which cost # 1,954

Almond flour cost $ 12 and more per lb., very expensive, last night I made the buns following this recepie With almond meal that cost me $ 6.99 a lb.

In addition, dollar for dollar, protein powders and meal replacement drinks tend to be more cost effective than whole food.