Sentences with phrase «school food standards»

Support is now available to help your school build on the foundations provided by new school food standards.

By following the national school food standards, I can be confident that all my students are eating well in school — and so can their parents.

The revised school food standards will allow schools to be more creative in their menus.

Write your congressional representatives to support the proposed school food standards.

And later this week I'll have an update on the continuing battle over federal school food standards — and what you can do to help protect them.

Some schools have asked for more help to ensure all breakfasts meet the new school food standards.

Thanks to the service, thousands of school pupils are now enjoying meals from menus guaranteed to comply with the revised school food standards.

The School Food Trust's Audits and Inspections toolkit helps schools demonstrate compliance with school food standards, and there are multiple benefits to having the evidence at hand, says Claire Wall, Senior Nutritionist at the School Food Trust

-LSB-...] with healthier school food standards.

Finally, many people have been concerned by the government's decision to exempt most academies and free schools from the existing school food standards.

A new set of school food standards, with accompanying guidance, was launched in July 2014 by the Education Secretary Michael Gove — and this included a recommendation for all school children to have a weekly meat free day.

School food standards provide an essential nutritional safety net, ensuring children...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made an announcement last week that's particularly important given current efforts in Congress to weaken school food standards relating to whole grains, sodium and fruits and vegetables.

But will Congress pay attention to ordinary Americans» support for strong school food standards, or will their voices be drowned out by lobbyists and powerful organizations like the SNA?

-LSB-...] no more watering down of improved school food standards to preserve industry profits (remember pizza = vegetable?)

The USDA, at the behest of Congress, sought recommendations from the Institute of Medicine on how to bring school food standards into alignment with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

The School Nutrition Association is seeking to roll back the healthy school food standards in Congress, and its primary justification for doing so is that districts around the country are unable to comply with those standards.

On January 1 the new school food standards come into force.

Today, the Labour Party's Shadow Health Secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, will announce a new commitment that a future Labour government would place hospital food standards on the same legal basis as school food standards.

Are the new school food standards ideal?

Having worked in the sustainable food arena for 15 years, I've watched national interest in local food grow, U. S. Department of Agriculture organics regulations pass, and healthier school food standards enacted.

You may remember my interview last year with Rivas regarding the SNA's mission to roll back critical Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act school food standards.

The bill, largely the same as the version introduced last Congress, would give school districts and food service administrators the tools and resources they need to prepare meals that meet the updated USDA school food standards by providing loan guarantees for kitchen infrastructure and equipment upgrades, authorizing grants for small but critical equipment purchases, and supporting innovative training opportunities to strengthen the school food service workforce.

This independent review had found that some schools and their caterers considered the current school food standards difficult to understand and use, particularly the nutritional analysis of recipes and menus.

Dr Patricia Mucavele of the Children's Food Trust shares the expert support and advice available to schools implementing the new school food standards which come into force in January

The new standards will build on the work achieved under the existing school food standards and should enable our teams to devote more time to creating exciting and nutritious menus that will inspire children's eating habits in the future.

Helping schools and their caterers to check that they are meeting the national school food standards is a crucial part of our work.

So I would argue that not only do all of us have the right to express our views about SNA's campaign to weaken school food standards, we have an affirmative obligation to advocate against that agenda.

The Department for Education has now launched its public consultation on the revised school food standards...

Y4HS: The goals of Y4HS are to build youth power in organizing for healthy and fresh school meals and snacks, safe places to play and exercise, strong school food standards and school wellness policies.

Back in 2010 Congress adopted greatly improved school food standards, which received bipartisan support as well as the endorsement of the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of 55,000 school food professionals.

«The new school food standards follow general public health eating guidance, encouraging schools to provide a wide range of foods across the week.

I interpreted Ronnei's letter as supporting SNA's current legislative agenda, which I and other advocates view as a misguided weakening of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) school food standards.

And for the majority of districts struggling to meet the new school food standards with inadequate funding and labor, the highly processed, lower priced, heat - and - eat entree will continue to remain an alluring option.

This background helps explain why 19 past SNA presidents recently took the highly unusual step of publicly breaking with their own organization to urge Congress not to roll - back healthier school food standards.

David Laws MP and Lord Nash have recently written to academies to encourage them to sign up to the new School Food standards.

«The new school food standards are just one part of the School Food Plan and are the result of extensive deliberations, consultation and testing.

A new set of school food standards (along with accompanying guidance for schools and their cooks and caterers) was launched by the Education Secretary Michael Gove today.

«As a former dinner lady, I know how much it helps that these new school food standards — which all schools, including academies, will be called on to meet — have been made simpler so that Cooks have some room to be creative in coming up with nutritious menus that students will enjoy.

I would urge every academy and free school to sign up to the school food standards.»