Here’s your challenge.  Make a fulfilling, nutritional and delicious lunch.  Your budget is $1.25.  Can you do it? That’s the idea behind Chef Ann Foundation’s Real Food Challenge during which chefs compete each year.  The $1.25 budget is set based on USDA requirements that school foodservice directors must deal with every day. Results from allRead more about Can you make a healthy $1.25 lunch that people actually eat? Yep, lots of chefs do.[…]

Buckingham County Middle School is rolling out a food cart in between morning classes to offer healthy snacks to those who may have missed breakfast earlier. The school says it’s all about helping the learning process.  Hungry students can’t concentrate. The idea quickly became popular with about 50 percent of the students picking up aRead more about School gives students second chance to eat breakfast[…]

Getting a good breakfast and lunch during school days are life savers for many disadvantaged youth. But what happens during the weekends? One Indiana school district and an innovative nonprofit have teamed up to provide nutritional meals that students in need can take home for the weekend. All because of a little ingenuity by repurposingRead more about Indiana schools rescue food for kids to take home on weekends[…]

Individual milk cartons are common at many elementary schools these days.  In Harrisburg, Virginia, however, Bluestone Elementary is revisiting old school milk dispensers for a few good reasons. Depending on the community, milk cartons can’t be recycled.  Kids were throwing out 39,000 unused cartons each year.  And students only finished, on average, 70 percent ofRead more about Back to the future: milk machines return to school[…]