Sentences with phrase «selling kids meals»

Critics have challenged the chain's practice of selling kids meals that include a toy, linking it to the nation's obesity crisis.

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But for kids who were long used to burgers and fries, these healthier school meals were likely to be a hard sell.

That was particularly true when I discovered that one school superintendent lamenting the egg ban — frequently mentioned by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL) in his campaign to roll back meal standards — hailed from a district making almost $ 3 million a year by selling junk food and fast food to kids.

Noah the Dog from Cuddle and Kind — For each doll sold, this company gives 10 meals to kids in need all around the world.

She struggles to sell thousands of families on her belief that the federally - subsidized school meals program can support made - from - scratch food that's not only nutritious and sustainably sourced, but also attractive to kids trained to prefer convenience foods.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act has made great strides in improving school meals and, we hope, competitive foods sold on campus.

As the executive director of NYSHEPA, Nancy ran an 800 member - strong coalition and advocated at the local, state and federal level for numerous nutrition and physical activity measures including school nutrition standards, calorie labeling, trans fat ban, Complete Streets, breastfeeding bill of rights, nutrition standards for fast - food kids» meals sold with toys, Safe Routes to School, nutrition standards for foods marketed to children, and the sugar - sweetened beverage tax.

Cafeterias sell competitive foods not because SNA members are out to ruin kids» health with snacks of questionable value, but because a $ 3 per free lunch payment from the government is not, in many cases, enough to cover the costs of putting that meal on the table, and more revenue has to come from somewhere.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 increased the nutritional quality of school meals, and included provisions to raise the nutritional standards of a la carte food items, snacks, and beverages sold to students separately from complete (reimbursable) school breakfasts and lunches.

Clearly such foods are not offering the «highest level of nutrition» possible, but as long as they're sold in our lunch rooms, kids like the one above will make an entire meal out of them — to the detriment of their own health and their ability to learn effectively in the classroom.

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.

And for some parents, that means returning kids to classrooms rife with unwanted candy rewards, food - based classroom birthday celebrations, junk food sold «a la carte» in the cafeteria, vending machines with sugary juice and sports drinks, and highly processed, chemical - laden school meals.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Second, if a school is making millions selling pizza and fries as competitive food — and is on record as saying that it does so precisely because kids are spurning the healthier meal — then I have to believe that the percentage of hard - boiled eggs and skim milk sold as part of their overall competitive food mix is extremely low.

To the extent that we're selling school meals, we have to compete so there is a lot of selling of items on the school food menu that are regarded as «kid - friendly» but aren't really all that good for kids.

This is basically the same model that most NSLP meal programs use — sell stuff kids want that's maybe not so good for them every day and then offer healthier alternates that only a small % participate in.

But when we're talking about rolling back a requirement that kids take fruit / veg with their meal, and instead go back to the «beige old days,» or when we're talking about reinstating the ability of schools to easily sell a la carte items like pizza every single day (instead of tying such sales to the menu on the reimbursable line), that is a per se «weakening» of nutrition standards — regardless of how pure SNA's motives may be in asking for those changes.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 required the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make significant nutrition improvements in federally - funded school meals, as well as to improve the overall quality of the food sold at school.

For every box sold, we donate a meal to several food banks such as the Feeding America Network and Share Our Strength - No Kid Hungry.

Aberdeen Centre offers many kid - friendly shops and activities, along with Chinese herbal apothecaries, restaurants offering Malaysian meals and a store selling «Lotus Seats» — an electronic, remote - controlled toilet seat.