School Meals That Rock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Yellow Curry Chicken, prepared by Chef Moss Crutchfield, Epping School District, New Hampshire So, what am I thinking as we celebrate National School Lunch Week (10/11 through 10/15)? I’m thinking that the creativity of school nutrition professionals is unsurpassed in the culinary world. Now they ask for ‘that” chicken !”

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Food Management

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Cedarburg High School’s Bulldog Cafe serves National School Lunch Program-compliant items as well as Aramark Java City Coffee items, including made-to-order beverages, freshly baked pastries, sandwiches, and snacks.

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Food Management

AUGUST 23, 2023

The final rule impacts the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Special Milk Program, Summer Food Service Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program.

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Food Quality & Safety

APRIL 11, 2024

Consumer Reports (CR) has called on USDA to remove certain Lunchables food kits from the National School Lunch Program due to high levels of sodium and heavy metals found in the products.

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FoodService Director

APRIL 11, 2024

The watchdog group also found that Lunchables products served under the National School Lunch Program had higher levels of sodium than their grocery store counterparts.

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FoodService Director

MAY 1, 2024

The winners have been announced just ahead of School Lunch Hero Day.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Milk cartons were part of school lunches in June 2021 in Toyama City, Japan. Public health officials determined that the milk cartons produced by the T milk factory served in school lunches on two days in June caused the outbreak. Although major foodborne toxins and pathogens were not detected, a specific E.

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FoodService Director

JANUARY 29, 2024

According to the study, only 44% of parents perceived school lunches to be healthy, however, a majority said that school meals can save them money, time and stress.

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FoodService Director

JANUARY 11, 2024

Over 1 million additional school lunches and breakfast were served each month this past fall compared to the same timeframe in 2022, according to state data.

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Chef Ann Foundation

MAY 5, 2023

Join us in celebrating the hard work and dedication of school food professionals far and wide on National School Lunch Hero Day!

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FoodService Director

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Students who post pictures of their lunch trays on social media throughout the week have a chance at winning Apple AirPods.

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FoodService Director

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Under SB 720, public and private schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program and National School Breakfast and serve students free breakfast and lunch each day would be eligible to receive additional funding from the state.

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FoodService Director

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The district is hosting student contests, lunch with local dignitaries and more.

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LTI, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

Flashback for a moment to K-12 – school lunch was the real deal (and still is). However, in many schools nationwide, the limited duration allocated for lunch poses a challenge. Efficient designs in educational dining facilities help to encourage healthy habits and improves serving line flow.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

-grown fruits and vegetables to community organizations like schools, local food pantries, and youth organizations while prioritizing socially disadvantaged farmers and entities, regional food inequities, and local and regional food systems. With taxpayer funds, USDA annually spends $6 billion on U.S.-produced regional farms.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Economic Incentives to Supply Safe Chicken to the National School Lunch Program, ERR-202, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides subsidized and free meals to over 31 million qualified students across the United States each school day (USDA, FNS, 2013).

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 25, 2023

RPI is exclusive to restaurants (excluding non-essential information about school lunches, for example). Drawing on our extensive 25+ years of experience and the expertise of our in-house AI and ML team, we created a customized alternative to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Food Away From Home (FAFH) index.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 1, 2023

” Despite their efforts, the term has seen broader and broader use with no connection to Taco John’s, including on school lunch menus, at restaurants and bars around the country, and in The Lego Movie.

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LTI, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2024

Barbara Casey Lane, CEO and chairman of the board at LTI, affirms the company’s commitment, stating, “LTI is dedicated to helping shape the future of school lunch programs.

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School Meals That Rock

APRIL 30, 2021

As you know School Lunch Hero Day is next Friday, May 7, 2021. We have set a small goal of getting our TIPS for School Meals That Rock membership up to 17,000 by next Friday! We certainly know that it will be a long time before things feel 100% normal, but we have HOPE that we are on the road back. YOU are our HEROES!

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Healthy Schools Campaign

APRIL 24, 2023

At its May 2023 meeting, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education will consider a proposal for a new Local School Wellness Policy for Students.

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School Meals That Rock

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I n my opinion, the only things that we should be saying to school nutrition professionals this September are thank you and what can I do to help? School lunch ladies and food dudes are true heroes. Like your mom told you, if you cannot say kind things, please don’t say anything at all. Here’s why: 1.

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LTI, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2023

Short lunch periods and hundreds of hungry students descending on the cafeteria at once can create chaos. The resulting backup can leave students with only a few minutes to eat their lunch before the bell rings, leading many to skip lunch altogether. So, how can you make school lunch lines faster?

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FoodHandler

JUNE 26, 2023

As I noted before, these grades often provide a superficial snapshot of compliance at a specific point in time and in many jurisdictions, it will be a year before the business will have another inspection (unless you’re in a school foodservice, who should have two inspections per year if they are funded through the National School Lunch Program).

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Louisiana’s HR 17 requests that the state Department of Education conduct a study and submit a report to the legislature regarding school lunches. Louisiana HR 17, School & Foods Programs Requests the state Department of Education conduct a study and submit a report to the legislature relative to school lunches.

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School Meals That Rock

APRIL 29, 2021

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allowed USDA, for the first time in over 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children. Cara: Can you describe what children may be given as a typical school lunch?

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A large outbreak with almost 200 cases in China was caused by poor hygiene at the producer and inadequate food storage at schools, according to a recent study. An outbreak of acute gastrointestinal illness occurred at two middle schools in a rural region of Chongqing in 2021. In May 2021, an outbreak was reported in the two schools.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Authorities in a Spanish city have suspended the permit of a company that provided catering to several schools after a large outbreak. The outbreak affected 149 children and five teachers from four Palma schools on the Balearic Islands this past December. The suspected food was a rice dish.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

High levels of an additive in tortillas have been identified as the likely cause of a significant outbreak in Finland. The Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto), National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL), and local agencies investigated the outbreak, which affected more than 800 people.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Officials in Finland remain stumped by a large outbreak linked to school meals. The Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto), National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL), and local agencies are investigating the outbreak, which affected more than 800 people. The incident occurred in mid-August in Mikkeli, with mainly children falling sick.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 20, 2023

As the school year kicks off with a whirlwind of emotions and activities, the race to balance new routines and responsibilities often leads to moments of absentmindedness. Amidst the chaos, it’s easy to overlook a critical aspect: ensuring the safety of the meals your children carry to school.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 21, 2023

More than 600 people have fallen ill in a suspected food poisoning outbreak at several schools in a Finnish city. This past week, officials from the city of Mikkeli sent a questionnaire to parents of students and staff about symptoms that occurred during or after school meals on Aug.

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School Meals That Rock

MAY 8, 2023

Having spent the past 25+ years as an advocate, cheerleader and trainer for the best possible meals in schools, my commitment to healthy school food is long-standing and far-reaching. You may copy and paste any of my thoughts below into your comments. Go to [link] for details and to submit a comment.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

coli O157:H7 from cookie dough, Peter Eisler, Elizabeth Weise, and others of USA Today for their reporting on school lunches, and Nick Grube of the Daily Triplicate for his three-part series on Mari Tardiff’s struggle to recover from the Campylobacter infection and ensuing Guillain-Barre Syndrome she got from drinking raw milk.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

Since morning meal visits are habitual, recovery for this daypart will depend on consumers returning to workplaces and schools. Lunch traffic, which was down -4 percent this May compared to a year ago and -10 percent compared to two years ago, will depend on the return to offices and workplaces and more midday activities, like shopping.

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Food + Tech Connect

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The proposed School Lunch Integrity Act of 2024 seeks to ban cultivated meat from school lunches, introducing restrictions under the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. Here are some of this week’s top headlines.

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School Meals That Rock

MAY 6, 2021

Dan Gorman has been the Food Service Director for two Michigan districts, Montague Area Public Schools and Whitehall District Schools , for 21 years. Before COVID-19 school closures, their ADP was about 60 percent for breakfast and high 60s percentages for lunch.

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