Barren cupboards at home during the summer. Empty stomachs at school in the fall. Advocates predict that may soon be the reality for many of the nation’s children after passage of the One Big ...

New school lunch nutrition requirements will backfire. Kids won't eat what they don't like. More students – many of whom rely on school meals as their main or only source of nutrition and ...

Why Kraft Heinz Pulled Lunchables from Schools. Food and beverage giant Kraft Heinz, announced Tuesday that it would remove Lunchables from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which provides ...

In New York, School Food Authorities (nonprofits in charge of cafeterias) that spend 30 percent of their lunch budget on in-state food get an extra $0.19 cents back for every reimbursable lunch. Maine ...

School kids dumped empty lunch trays outside Gov. Kathy Hochul's office at the Capitol on Tuesday in protest of her effort to block free school meals for all public-school students in the state.

A school lunch tray featuring whole wheat tortillas at the School Nutrition Association conference. All Connecticut K-12 students will be receiving free school meals after legislative approval ...

Needham schools cut down on food waste with reusable metal trays 02:21. Schools in Needham, Massachusetts have cut down on their food waste by replacing their old cafeteria lunch trays with ...

More schools in the North Country are getting interested in putting local fruits and vegetables on kids' lunch trays. But buying directly from farmers is more complicated than buying from big food ...

The Wake County school board voted 5-4 on Tuesday to raise the cost for a full-price lunch from $3 to $3.25 in elementary schools and from $3.25 to $3.50 cents in middle and high schools.