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In April, Food & Wine reported on the advocacy group's petition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, asking it to pull the product from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) due to the ...
Why Kraft Heinz Pulled Lunchables from Schools. Food and beverage giant Kraft Heinz, announced Tuesday that it would remove Lunchables from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which provides ...
"It's a significant issue, and sometimes there are kids who won't eat because they know they're accumulating debt," says one free-lunch advocate. Student lunch debt is a growing problem in ...
What makes school lunch so contentious, though, isn’t just the question of what kids eat, but of which kids are doing the eating. As Poppendieck recounts in her book, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, the original program provided schools with food and, later, cash to subsidize the cost of meals.
As early as the late 19th century, cities such as Boston and Philadelphia operated independent school lunch programs, with the assistance of volunteers or charities. [11] Until the 1930s, most school lunch programs were volunteer efforts led by teachers and mothers' clubs. [12] These programs drew on the expertise of professional home economics ...
The regulations were intended to provide meal planning flexibility to local school lunch administrators coping with cuts to the National School Lunch Program enacted by the Omnibus Reconciliation Acts of 1980 and 1981. [1] [2] The proposed changes allowed administrators to meet nutritional requirements by crediting food items not explicitly listed.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make significant changes to the school lunch program for the first time in over 30 years. [4] In addition to funding standard child nutrition and school lunch programs, there are several new nutritional standards in the bill. The main aspects are listed below. [1]
Kraft Heinz is removing its Lunchables meal kits from the national school lunch program, months after Consumer Reports raised concerns about high levels of sodium in the kits.