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Well, it happened already. My daughter came home from school, handed back her full lunchbox, and with pleading eyes said: “Please, Mom, no more ham and cheese sandwiches. Please.” We are only just beginning the second month of school and I’ve hit a lunch packing dead end. How is that even possible? After chatting with […]
More than 30 million students eat a school lunch every day, according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Here’s the burning question that Parent Today has for students: Why? To celebrate National School Lunch Week’s theme of “School Lunch Snapshot,” we asked students from a handful of Capital Region schools to tell us why they’re opting […]
School lunches are getting a healthy makeover for the first time in 15 years. The changes were made in response to the childhood obesity epidemic – an estimated 30 percent of children are obese or overweight. The new rules require school food programs to: Serve larger portions of fruits and vegetables. Offer dark green and […]