Sentences with phrase «number of meals at»

For multiple years, the suit alleges, Chartwells was paid many millions of dollars more for meals than it should have been, even while the company often delivered food late, failed to provide the full number of meals at some schools, and repeatedly served poor quality or spoiled food.

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The end of the Happy Meal partnership with Disney comes at a time when the processed - and fast - food industries are under fire on a number of fronts because of growing concerns about expanding waistlines, particularly among youngsters.

Therefore, McDonald's strength in numbers, and Jack in the Box's meal - deal ploy targeted at pot smokers, would appear to make a lot of sense.

Sponsored by the Humanist Community at Harvard, evangelical Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Zoroastrians, along with a number of atheists, were among those represented at a recent meal packaging event for hungry kids in the Boston area.

The economy has created a number of aspiring gourmet chefs throughout the United States as consumers recreate meals at home instead of splurging at restaurants.

Number of kids served at KSD: 1013 Percentage who qualify for free and reduced - priced meals: 35 % Annual number of local farms partners: 4 farms Kids» favorite local produce: beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, and leafy Number of kids served at KSD: 1013 Percentage who qualify for free and reduced - priced meals: 35 % Annual number of local farms partners: 4 farms Kids» favorite local produce: beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, and leafy number of local farms partners: 4 farms Kids» favorite local produce: beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, and leafy greens

To prepare for baby, we socked up a dedicated deep freeze with a number of cooked meals, but I also wanted something with raw ingredients at the ready.

The resulting number is the percentage of meals reimbursed at the «free» reimbursement rate, with the rest being reimbursed at the «paid» rate.

In April of 2016, the House of Representatives introduced a bill that would scale back the number of free meals offered at schools in the U.S.. However, poverty has not reduced the last number of years.

As the numbers of orphans at the center grew, the children took care of the toddlers while the overwhelmed volunteers worked to give them all a good meal and make sure they were safe for the time they were there.

As she grows, she'll become more adept at using utensils, and the number of potential meals will grow.

Everyone knows that kids have to be forced to do chores, and that they need to be sent to bed by a certain time every night, with a certain routine, and to eat meals and snacks on a predetermined schedule, and also to be forced to eat their vegetables or x number of bites at dinner.

State education officials said there has been an increased focus on providing fresh fruits and vegetables in student lunches, as the state noted a significant increase in the past decade in the number of students who require meals at school.

Sit Down Together at the Dinner Table The number of times you sit down with your children for family meals - and actually talk to them - is directly correlated with a decreased chance they will become involved in substance abuse, research has found.

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.

Supporting families in applying for 3SquaresVT benefits can increase the number of students directly certified to receive free school meals, as well as support student food security at home.

That's roughly one - fourth the number of children who qualify at schools for free or reduced price lunches — widely regarded as the only nutritious meal many needy kids receive during the school year.

But Camren's school serves three square meals — breakfast, lunch and supper — to help students manage the long day and ensure children have a warm helping of food before they head home at a time when a record number of families nationwide are struggling to provide a basic meal.

● Number of kids served at CRHS: 633 ● Change in lunch participation since salad bar implementation: 20 % increase ● Percentage who are eligible for free and reduced meals: 35 - 40 % ● Kids» favorite salad bar items: Tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, shredded carrots, jalapenos

SH: Julie Abrera at School Nutrition Foundation was a big part of that, and she approached us based on our size and the number of kids who qualified for free / reduced meals, as well as looking at our participation rate at breakfast — it was obvious we could do a better job of getting kids participating in breakfast.

At the other end of the economic spectrum, there are some schools which, because they have very low numbers of low income students, choose to forego participation in the Federal school meals programs altogether and just run their own meal program under their own rules.

Keep in mind that under Provision 2, the school provides meals at no cost to all students, so it is key to financial success to have the number of students on paid status not exceed about 10 % during the base year.

But life at Number 10 is not all about crisis management as we find out about the intricacies of the prime pinisters» domestic arrangements including late - night whiskies, the delicate problem of balancing a cup of tea and a cream bun whilst explaining the poll tax - and even making sure the PM had a proper meal in the evening.

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

Bobbie Sackman, director of public policy at LiveON NY, a senior citizen advocacy organization, said the Cuomo proposal would lead to a cut in the number of meals served to the city's aging population as well as a reduction in services, including social activities, eviction assistance and help with health care.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Miller said the department figured out which centers were smallest by looking at the numbers of meals they were contracted to serve.

At the height of the recession in 2008 - 2009, the Food Bank of Central New York saw a 12 percent increase in the number of meals requested across its 11 - county service area.

But even preventing a small number of bites could have a huge impact because a female mosquito must engorge herself with a blood meal at least twice to transmit a disease such as malaria or dengue — once to contract the disease, and again to pass it along.

He worries, however, that in an effort to please tourists, game managers will increase the numbers of large predators in reserves, putting the cheetahs at greater risk of having their meals stolen out from under them.

If you're not great at dreaming up meals based on one or two available ingredients, flip to the index of your favorite cookbook or go to your number one recipe source and do a search.

Having default snacks and meals reduces the number of decisions you make on any given day — so you're more likely to eat well at other times.

You want to decrease phytic acid in foods you consume as much as possible because it impairs the absorption of a number of minerals, including zinc, calcium, and iron (although it's to be noted that the impairment only happens during that meal, not at subsequent meals).

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So you feel better having a bigger meal at breakfast and kind of your — your number two at — at lunch from a mealtime perspective.

«The numbers of meal replacements consumed in the first six months was significantly related to weight loss at week 26 as was the total number consumed for the year to weight loss at week 52.»

I was just at the annual nutrition conference hosted by the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) a month ago in DC, and heard a presentation of a fascinating study where they did a randomized study comparing 2 vs. 6 meals per day for 12 weeks, with the exact same number of total calories consumed, and then they did a «crossover», where the people eating 2 meals switched to 6 meals and vice versa.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

When they were intaking the same number of calories but divided into three meals a day, they didn't lose any weight at all.

And taken as a whole this single meal exceeds the RDIs for a number of different EAAs, while supply at a minimum 3/4 of the RDI all of the EAAs.

Number 3 — Again, the third point reads: «Adult protein utilization is a function of intake at individual meals».

The researchers found that «1) ingestion of a large number of calories at one time (binge eating) impacts metabolic parameters even when total calories and macronutrients are appropriate for weight; 2) the timing of energy intake is an independent determinant of the diurnal rhythm of leptin secretion, indicating a relatively acute affect of energy balance on leptin dynamics; 3) the mechanism of exaggerated insulin secretion after a binge meal remains to be determined, but may be related to the altered diurnal pattern of leptin secretion; and 4) as most binge eating episodes in the population are associated with the ingestion of excess calories, it is hypothesized that binge eating behavior is associated with even greater metabolic dysfunction than that described herein.»

In 2013 they looked at the effects of high - and low - glycemic meals with the same number of calories four hours after people ate them.

A number of studies investigated the effect of consumption of a high fiber meal and food intake at a later eating occasion.

Senior Labour MP Lucy Powell published figures showing the capital had the biggest gap between the number of pupils at grammars eligible for free school meals compared with the figure for the broader school population.

A school, group of schools, or an entire local educational agency (LEA or school district) may offer community eligibility if the number of children enrolled for free school meals without a paper application, referred to as «Identified Students,» is at least 40 percent of the total enrollment.

The community eligibility provision allows schools with high numbers of low - income children serve breakfast and lunch at no charge without collecting school - meal - benefit applications.

«We'll be looking very carefully at what's happening in those local authorities with the same sort of population, with similar levels of deprivation, similar numbers of children on free school meals, where one particular local authority does extremely well and another one doesn't.

When you pay for a meal at a participating restaurant with that card, you'll earn 1 - 3X the number of points.

They're happiest while sleeping in their people's laps or beds, greeting them at the door with wagging smiles, going for walks, eating mostly organic meals and treats, and each filling the role as Number One Fan of the Mayor.

Looking at the chart, divide the total per day by the total number of times you feed your puppy per day to determine the portion size for each meal.