Sentences with phrase «rely on school food»

It's difficult to tell just how many Providence students rely on school food, but approximately 40 % of city children — that's 15,894 kids — under the age of 18 were living in poverty between 2010 and 2014, according to data compiled by Rhode Island Kids Count.

(I'd be beside myself if I had to rely on school food for an allergy kid!)

Not exact matches

But, as I noted in my recent piece on the New York Times Motherlode, relying on outside funding is not a true solution to improving school food in this country.

Ed: I know what you're saying, but my fear is that if you rely too much on the individual locality, you get a patchwork of «haves» and «have nots» depending on how concerned your local area is (or is not) about school food.

Poppendieck's book explained how and why school food programs had come to rely on «a la carte» sales just to break even.

«Much more needs to be done to reach the millions of children who rely on school lunch, by helping them make it through the evening with a healthy supper that was funded by the Child and Adult Food Program (CACFP),» the report commented in its introduction.

But to the extent one can rely on the impressions of school food directors (as opposed to actual measurement), the KSHFP survey bolsters the SNA's position: More than half of the directors surveyed reported increased plate waste for fruits, and 75 percent said that the amount of vegetable waste had increased.

As she tried to keep up with Nadia's dancing and school activities, she relied too often on fast food and sugary drinks and snacks.

Unless otherwise noted, this paper relies on reported costs when analyzing school food service finances.

The remaining 32,000 students who rely on school meals during the school day may not get enough healthy food to power them through to focus on their homework.

The Thanksgiving holidays remind us that many children rely on the food they receive during the school day, and long breaks often mean extended periods of hunger.

The remaining 31,000 students who rely on school meals during the school year may not get enough healthy food during the summer, falling behind their peers academically.

From this premise, she extrapolates that schools which rely on prepared food from distributors are could be saving money by cooking from scratch.

Texas's nutrition standards are pretty lax when compared to the new federal rules (allowing, for example, 28 grams of fat in a given item), but the TDA has relied upon them since 2009 to curb sales of the worst junk food on Texas school campuses.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

I wonder if it has ever occurred to the middle class kids who are organizing these protests that while they have the luxury of saying no to school food, there are other kids who rely on it for a substantial part of their daily nutrition, and who are being put in the unpleasant position of having to choose between being cool [by joining everyone else in the boycott] and being hungry?

For decades, we've relied on processed food, largely due to financial and operational constraints which leave school kitchens without the ability to cook real food in schools.

But while fast food customers can vote with their dollars, our nation's school children, particularly those whose lower economic status forces them to rely on federal school meals, lack any voice in the matter.

-LSB-...] options for school food — the federal school meal program and an a la carte menu — has been shown to create painful stigma among kids who must, for financial reasons, rely on the school meal.

Here in Houston, over 80 % of our students rely on free or reduced price federal school meals and it was precisely that issue of economic dependency which led to my interest in school food reform in the first place — and to the inception of this blog back in 2010.

Many kids rely on this food over the weekend because they might only get food from school.

The Lunch Box is an online resource that is dedicated to supporting school districts and food service teams in transitioning their food programs from relying on processed foods to incorporating scratch cooking and fresh ingredients in their menus.

Children with severe food allergies, especially pre-verbal kids, rely heavily not just on schools and caregivers, but also on other parents to keep them safe

And even the SNA, on which Parker happily relies in dismissing the need for healthier school food, fully recognizes the critical role of the NSLP in feeding America's hungry children.

Some schools offer healthy items a la carte, but some sell junk food a la carte; if your school does this, it may be a hard battle to get the nutrition department to step away from the junk food because they rely on that money to help fund the free meals.

It's now commonplace to read heart - wrenching stories of children arriving at school unfed, hollow - eyed with hunger and unable to learn, of families relying on food banks to get by, and of teachers buying them groceries with their own money.

In a linked editorial, Dr Kathryn Fitzgerald of John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, emphasises the caveats for an observational study of this kind which relies on food frequency questionnaires that are not fully able to describe different types of fat.

The research, led by William J. A. Eiler II, PhD, of the Indiana University School of Medicine's Departments of Medicine and Neurology, adds to the current body of knowledge that alcohol increases food intake, also known as the «aperitif effect,» but shows this increased intake does not rely entirely on the oral ingestion of alcohol and its absorption through the gut.

«Understanding how these important marine ecosystems that we rely on for food and medicines evolved in the past gives us new insight into how to protect them in the future,» said UM Rosenstiel School alumnus and lead author of the study David Weinstein.

In the long term, a school that takes an active interest in healthy eating can play a part in educating children to make good food choices and grow up to be healthier adults who don't need to rely on health services.

19 Report card ads for fast - food spur protest; some schools rely on high - fat foods to keep food service solvent; schools craft wellness policies; physical education program focuses on overall health.

It scans the ocean for the reflections off of the silvery scales of schooling fish rely solely on the ocean as their food source for they are carnivores and love to eat anchovies (Engraulis mordax).