Sentences with phrase «school lunch entrees»

Dinner leftovers make terrific and convenient school lunch entrees.

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We would never, for example, forbid parents from sending in a home - packed lunch, we typically offer kids a choice of two entrees, and many schools offer non-pork options to accommodate religious dietary restrictions.

Students now have two lunch options at the school cafeteria: «cold» entrees including turkey sandwiches or hummus and flatbread; or kid - friendly favorites more synonymous with a «hot» school lunch like hot dogs, pizza or chicken nuggets.

For this school year, in a bid to boost participation in its lunch program from its paying students, the district will now offer them the choice of two entrees and a self - serve salad bar available on Tuesdays and Thursdays for students in grades three to five.

About 100,000 Chicago public high school students, 80 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced - price lunches, can choose nachos as an entree every day.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, high school students, PTOs and coaches often set up fundraising tables at lunch to sell entrees from local restaurants and fast food chains, everything from pizza to Chinese food, creating veritable «food courts» of junk food.

They were the true naysayers — they tried to say we couldn't get the junk food out of the schools, that no one would be able to get more families to fill out the free lunch application, and that students wouldn't want to eat fresh fruit or salad or healthier entrees.

Blame it on the bagel dog.If not for that sad excuse for an entree, the blogger known as Mrs. Q might never have gotten so disgusted with school lunches that she decided to show the world how bad they are.

According to The Daily, the school food in Routt County, where only 14 % of adults are obese, includes «seasonal vegetables, fresh - baked bread and hot entrees» and «[a] ll lunches feature a salad bar stocked with seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as a deli station with fresh - baked bread and deli meats sliced in - house.»

The meat and grain restrictions also led to smaller lunch entrees, making it difficult for some schools to meet minimum calorie requirements for lunches without adding items, such as gelatin, that generally do not improve the nutritional quality of lunches.

Among other things, it found that schools have had to eliminate popular items; that the meat and grain restrictions have led to smaller lunch entrees; that students don't like the new lunches; and that some schools are losing food funding because fewer students are getting their lunches from school.

Today I share a story about a dedicated elementary school principal who eats the school lunch with his students everyday and who, when hearing complaints about a particular entree, worked to get the problem solved.

Elementary and middle school students who are given at least 25 minutes to eat lunch are more likely to choose fruits and consume more of their entrees, milk, and vegetables according to a new study released in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.