In our (totally anecdotal) survey of secondary school kids, one thing that came across was that lunches should not be “embarrassing”. Too posh, too healthy, too smelly, too weird, too hard to ...

A science museum in the city looks back at the history of feeding children in schools and reminds us how fraught the efforts ...

Imagine 30 million kids, five days a week, sitting down to a meal that might be doing more harm than good. Welcome to the world of school lunches in ... among the least healthy in the world.

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Legislators are working to bring milk choice back to schools ... Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act 2025, which would revise requirements for milk provided by the National School Lunch Program ...

Whatever happens to federal funds that help subsidize school ... healthy entrées and fewer sugary treats for lunch invests both in children’s health now and in the future. Give the kids plenty ...

School cafeterias left with less healthy options ... handmade lunches Other factors have increased the area’s reliance on food banks, such as the back-to-back hurricanes in October and the ...

A program that funds free school lunches for all K-12 school kids is $42 million over budget ... If voters say yes to both, Healthy School Meals for All will continue. If they say no, then ...

A bipartisan bill, the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, aims to reintroduce whole and 2% milk to school lunch programs, challenging long-standing USDA guidelines. Supporters, including lawmakers ...