Sentences with phrase «of school meals»

Class time is valuable and changing longstanding views about the value of school meal programs is tough.

The district's initiative follows a growing nationwide trend in recent years to boost the nutritional quality of school meals.

On the upside, the spending bill also contained language which, if adopted, would continue to keep Chinese - processed chicken out of school meals.

However, it is perfectly possible to cater for allergies and special diets as part of your school meals service.

But I was of course particularly interested in the role of school meals in addressing teen hunger.

The importance and nutritional value of school meals are well documented.

Recruiting the services of local or celebrity chefs to raise the profile of school meal programs.

Milk is usually included in the cost of a school meal, and kids will take it, and then throw it out.

Connect to resources that help you promote your program and effectively communicate the importance of school meals.

These include those services used specifically in education provision including the provision of school meals.

For many, the answer is to promote the uptake of school meals.

In contrast to the health benefits of school meals, packed lunches are consistently shown to be less healthy, less nutritious and therefore less beneficial to children.

In fact, federal guidelines have held the fat content of school meals artificially low at 30 percent, inviting schools to feed kids sugar instead.

Sharing beautiful photos of school meals from other school nutrition services pages — give a shout out to your colleagues!

The sale of low ‐ nutrition foods at schools (outside of school meals) is associated with increases in children's body mass index (BMI).

# 8.5 million of this funding went to the 11 local authorities with the lowest take - up of school meals among their infant pupils.

The award was created to recognize outstanding school nutrition employees who influence the quality of school meals through customer service.

Eventually this idea of «offer vs. serve» was expanded so that today it applies to the vast majority of school meals served at all grade levels.

Learn how to use branding to enhance the perception of school meals throughout your community and increase participation for all school meals.

The recipient is always a school district in need of improvement of its school meal kitchen facilities.

# 8.5 million of this funding went to the 11 local authorities with the lowest take - up of school meals among their infant pupils.

To demonstrate how better to meet the needs of the school meal program, the district hired a consultant to conduct a feasibility study.

It's being blamed on the lack of school meals and breakfast clubs which are only available in term time.

Second, as you well know, the nutritional level of school meals has not been good, so what are we teaching our kids?

Hopefully we are not seeing the beginning of the demise of the school meals program, but I'm really worried.

The kids that are obese are not obese because of school meals.

A portion of all school meals is publicly subsidized by federal reimbursement, but families still must contribute, unless they're financially eligible for free meals.

Train nutrition staff to think of the school meal programs as a business that requires an investment in quality ingredients and appealing foods.

National nutrition standards influence many facets of school meal program operations, including menu planning, cooking and serving procedures, food costs, marketing strategies, and student participation rates.

Several examples how to enhance participation of the pupils and assessment tools for monitoring and evaluation of school meals are presented in the recommendations.

Topics can cover for example, the smooth running of school meals, the appeal of the food and the dishes served, as well as any other matters related to schools meals.

As you said so well, she was a strong, fair and knowledgeable supporter of school meals & child nutrition and she will be missed.

Our study findings, along with developments in nutritional guidance, have had a dramatic impact on the quality of school meals.

Not surprisingly, dairy industry groups advocate consumption of milk and other dairy products, especially as part of school meals.

It's a perfect example of using social media — and photography — to tap into a wider conversation, and challenge a pervasive, inaccurate perception of school meals.

The lawmakers also want Veneman to support legislation that would bolster the safety of school meals by requiring mandatory recalls by USDA and swifter notification to schools by state officials, who administer the program.

But that overly simplistic thinking ignores so many critical pieces of the puzzle, most especially the dismal underfunding of school meals by the American government but also the many cultural factors I raise above.

Sen. Dick Durbin will introduce a package of legislative reforms Tuesday designed to bolster the safety of school meals by requiring more stringent tests for disease - causing organisms and by giving school authorities more information about the safety records of food suppliers.

Hoffman drew from the most recent survey from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which showed that 94 percent of school meals don't meet federal nutritional standards.

Enhance nutrition of school meals by including more whole grains, a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, less fat, and less sodium.

Better funding of school meals — or, as one of my interviewees proposes, making them free for all children, regardless of income — would of course help solve this problem on both sides of the equation.

Many people commenting on my recent school food opinion piece in the New York Times pointed to another factor which may hinder children's acceptance of school meals - extremely short school lunch periods.