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...millions of U.S. students, a hot meal has been part of the school day since Congress passed the National School Lunch Program in 1946. But with many items on today's menus crammed with fat and calories, educators are taking a cue from the local-food movement to put school lunches on a healthier path...
...National School Lunch Program, intended to prevent the return of Depression-era child malnourishment, allowed the government to buy surplus food from farmers and set minimum nutritional values for each meal. Its budget grew under Eisenhower and Nixon, but the Reagan Administration slashed it by nearly $1.5 billion - making up for the cuts by revising nutritional guidelines, reducing portion sizes and (infamously) attempting to categorize ketchup as a vegetable. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
Others saw green: “If you are so messy and so concerned about other people touching your napkins, stockpile a few before you sit down to eat your meal and stop whining,” another e-mailer jibed. When students objected that they had not been consulted before the decision, a third replied, “Decisions that benefit everyone don’t need to be put up to ridiculous and useless debate...
...already happening in Independence, where the Gilliams live. As part of an innovative program in low-income neighborhoods, the city school district began hosting weekly dinners for students and their families, paid for with federal funds from the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Families get a free hot meal and a cooking demonstration that shows them how to prepare similarly well-balanced entres at home. "Part of that initiative is to get children to sit down and eat with their parents, and part of it is to teach families what a healthy dinner is," says Jim Hinson, superintendent...
...spend in front of the TV to washing and slicing fruits and vegetables as on-the-go snacks for the next day. "If I buy a cantaloupe, cut it up and bag the pieces, we'll eat it. Otherwise, it just sits in the fridge," says Chris. To make meal prep more efficient, after every trip to the grocery store, the family creates a menu of the week's options by putting them on Post-its on the refrigerator. That way, dinner is simply a matter of deciding which meal to make. "It eliminates the guesswork and some...