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Uproar After NC State Agent 'Fixes' Girl's Lunch
A North Carolina preschooler arrived at school with a lunch packed by her mom, but ended up eating just three chicken nuggets from the school cafeteria because a state agent didn't think her packed...
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Pizza's Days as 'Vegetable' Could Be Numbered
You may soon find it tougher to pack in a day's recommended number of vegetable servings. Rep. Jared Polis is on a quest to undo what some may consider to be the best thing Congress did in all of 2011...
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Schoolkids in Just 3 States Will Get Pink-Slime Lunches
The nation's school districts are turning up their noses at "pink slime"—well, most of them. The USDA says only three states participating in its National School Lunch Program— Iowa, Nebraska, and...
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Students Plan Strike Over Smaller Lunch Sizes
Parsippany Hills High School has found a way to get its students to come together and really focus on an issue: Downsize their lunch. Students at the New Jersey high school are holding strategy...
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Elementary School Cafeteria Goes 100% Vegetarian
Forget Meatless Mondays : Every day is meatless at New York City's Public School 244, the first public school in the city to offer up an entirely vegetarian menu, the AP reports. (It's thought to be...
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USDA Recalls Beef Meant for School Lunches
If you sent your children to school for "hot lunch" this morning, you’ll want to see this… or maybe you won’t. The USDA recalled beef after small pieces of plastic were found in it—but it’s who the...
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Good Samaritan Pays Off Kids' Lunch Balances
Hear about that story out of Utah about a school that literally took lunches away from kids because their families were behind on payments? So did Kenny Thompson of Houston, who was bothered enough to...
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Michelle Obama's School Lunch Rules in GOP Cross Hairs
No Obama program is safe from House Republicans—even when the Obama in question is Michelle. A GOP agriculture and food spending released yesterday contains a provision that would take a bite out of...
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School Officials: Kids Just Throw Away Healthy Food
It's not just House Republicans that are fighting Michelle Obama's healthy school lunches. School officials say kids across the country are actually throwing away the healthy food offered to them in...
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Kitchen Manager Fired for Giving Kids Free Lunches
"I had a first grader in front of me, crying, because she doesn't have enough money for lunch. Yes, I gave her lunch," says Della Curry—who got fired for the deed. Curry was the kitchen manager at...
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Lunch Lady Feeds Hungry Kid, Gets Fired
Dalene Bowden's response when a 12-year-old at Idaho's Irving Middle School told her she was hungry but didn't have any money seemed like a no-brainer: The food service worker gave the girl a free hot...
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Christie: 'I Don't Care' What's in School Lunches
Chris Christie may have just become the Republican frontrunner among kids, though he likely irked Michelle Obama in the process. While campaigning in Iowa on Monday, the New Jersey governor fielded a...
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A School Lunch Director Beat Jamie Oliver at His Own Game
It turns out it is possible to create healthy school meals without breaking the budget—as long as your town has "an overwhelming determination to prove a reality TV star wrong." In a massive dive into...
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One US State Just Outlawed 'Lunch Shaming' in Schools
Last month at a school in Arizona, a cafeteria worker stamped a second-grader's arm with the phrase "lunch money" after it was discovered he didn't have enough money in his meal account. "He was...
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Dad Devastated by School Lunch Shaming Takes Action
Jeffrey Lew never wants a child to be shamed on the school cafeteria line again. That's why the Seattle dad of three has been hard at work fundraising, with one goal in mind: to pay down the school...
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Trump Administration Puts Biscuits Back on the School Lunch Menu
The national school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas, and other foods made mostly of refined grains. The Trump administration is scaling back contested...
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A School Lunch Director Beat Jamie Oliver at His Own Game
It turns out it is possible to create healthy school meals without breaking the budget—as long as your town has "an overwhelming determination to prove a reality TV star wrong." In a massive dive into...
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One US State Just Outlawed 'Lunch Shaming' in Schools
Last month at a school in Arizona, a cafeteria worker stamped a second-grader's arm with the phrase "lunch money" after it was discovered he didn't have enough money in his meal account. "He was...
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Dad Devastated by School Lunch Shaming Takes Action
Jeffrey Lew never wants a child to be shamed on the school cafeteria line again. That's why the Seattle dad of three has been hard at work fundraising, with one goal in mind: to pay down the school...
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Trump Administration Puts Biscuits Back on the School Lunch Menu
The national school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas, and other foods made mostly of refined grains. The Trump administration is scaling back contested...
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