Three Steps to Healthy School Meals

Three Steps to Healthy School Meals
Author: Arkansas. Child Nutrition Programs
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2000
Genre: Children
ISBN:

A meal management system which includes three steps: (1) planning pre-analyzed menus, (2) purchasing food using food descriptions, and (3) producing and presenting food to students. These steps ensure that meals meet nutritional standards and provide good quality food to students.

School Meals

School Meals
Author: Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2010-02-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309151376

Ensuring that the food provided to children in schools is consistent with current dietary recommendations is an important national focus. Various laws and regulations govern the operation of school meal programs. In 1995, Nutrition Standards and Meal Requirements were put in place to ensure that all meals offered would be high in nutritional quality. School Meals reviews and provides recommendations to update the nutrition standard and the meal requirements for the National School Breakfast and Lunch Programs. The recommendations reflect new developments in nutrition science, increase the availability of key food groups in the school meal programs, and allow these programs to better meet the nutritional needs of children, foster healthy eating habits, and safeguard children's health. School Meals sets standards for menu planning that focus on food groups, calories, saturated fat, and sodium and that incorporate Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Dietary Reference Intakes. This book will be used as a guide for school food authorities, food producers, policy leaders, state/local governments, and parents.

Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat

Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat
Author: Andrew R. Ruis
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0813584094

In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to some extent, has continued to be) so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health authorities, politicians, and the food industry. Through careful studies of several key contexts and detailed analysis of the policies and politics that governed the creation of school meal programs, Ruis demonstrates how the early history of school meal program development helps us understand contemporary debates over changes to school lunch policies.

Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project

Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project
Author: Mrs. Q
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1452110085

When school teacher Mrs. Q forgot her lunch one day, she had no idea she was about to embark on an odyssey to uncover the truth about public school lunches. Shocked by what her students were served, she resolved to eat school lunch for an entire year, chronicling her experience anonymously on a blog that received thousands of hits daily, and was lauded by such food activists as Mark Bittman, Jamie Oliver, and Marion Nestle. Here, Mrs. Q reveals her identity for the first time in an eye-opening account of school lunches in America. Along the way, she provides invaluable resources for parents and health advocates who wish to help reform school lunch, making this a must-read for anyone concerned about children's health issues.

School Meal Programs

School Meal Programs
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2018-02-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983892134

School Meal Programs: Changes to Federal Agencies' Procedures Could Reduce Risk of School Children Consuming Recalled Food

Free for All

Free for All
Author: Janet Poppendieck
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520944410

How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situation in which nutritionally regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal meals? How well are they reaching students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces--the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models--that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children as a regular part of their school day.