Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
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Category : National school lunch program
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
National School Lunch Program
Author: The National School Lunch Program--is it Working?
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National school lunch program
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Summary of a Report
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National school lunch program
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
National School Lunch Program
Author: The Labor of Lunch
Author: Jennifer E. GaddisPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520971590
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
There’s a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation’s school cooks by supplying cafeterias with cheap, precooked hamburger patties and chicken nuggets chock-full of industrial fillers. Yet it’s no secret that meals cooked from scratch with nutritious, locally sourced ingredients are better for children, workers, and the environment. So why not empower “lunch ladies” to do more than just unbox and reheat factory-made food? And why not organize together to make healthy, ethically sourced, free school lunches a reality for all children? The Labor of Lunch aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed. By providing a feminist history of the US National School Lunch Program, Jennifer E. Gaddis recasts the humble school lunch as an important and often overlooked form of public care. Through vivid narration and moral heft, The Labor of Lunch offers a stirring call to action and a blueprint for school lunch reforms capable of delivering a healthier, more equitable, caring, and sustainable future.
School Meals
Author: Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School Lunch and Breakfast ProgramsPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309151376
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
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.
The National School Lunch Program
Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721984848
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The National School Lunch Program: Is It Working?
The National School Lunch Program
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Production and Marketing AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : National school lunch program
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
School Meal Programs
Author: United States Government Accountability OfficePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983892134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
School Meal Programs: Changes to Federal Agencies' Procedures Could Reduce Risk of School Children Consuming Recalled Food
An Exploratory Study Examining the National School Lunch Program
Author: John Matthew BerezaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to make transparent the current National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The first mission of this project is to clarify how the NSLP functions on a day-to-day basis in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus is used as a sample city, yet the aim of this research is to be transferable to other locations. The second objective is to gain a clearer understanding of the NSLP from the perspective of those who work in the field, and how they would like to improve the Program. This study employs qualitative inquiry through the use of individual interviews and observations to measure the participants. The approach is naturalistic, which encourages the researcher to interact with the sample in their natural environment. The perspective is that of eleven individuals working for the National School Lunch Program. Through a guided interviewing process these participants spoke of their experiences in the current nutritional model, and gave suggestions of improvement. Their stories on nutrition, hopes of better food, and equitable lunches were audio-recorded, and the data were analyzed and coded in a final report. The results from this investigation reveal that the National School Lunch Program is a spike, or a foreign object inserted into an environment, having little interaction with the community. In addition, those working in the National School Lunch Program often did not see problems with the initiative (even in the face of growing obesity, inattentive disorders, and mood issues). During the interviews it became apparent that many in the NSLP see the benefits of bringing in more local, fresher foods for the students, but they could not imagine going against the hierarchy of the NSLP. In response to the first research question, how the NSLP functions, the most frequent response was through near total control. Indeed, this faltering program, one that the USDA has hopes of making healthier, sees itself as unchangeable.