Before the first lunch lady ever plopped a gelatinous brown mass onto a compartmentalized plastic tray, children pretty much had to fend for themselves when it came to the midday meal, and were ...

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 ...

Or maybe you're siding with the extremely popular European position that Americans are fat-fatties and school lunches should be a matter of national security.

Schools in Needham have cut down on their food waste by replacing their old cafeteria lunch trays with reusable metal ones.

Lunchables will no longer be available on school cafeteria menus across the country due to lower-than-expected demand.

20.California was the first state to offer free school lunches to every public school student, and honestly, they look delicious. Why can't every state do this?

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 ...

Elliott apples end up in state school lunches thanks to farm-to-school programs, initiatives that have expanded in the last few decades as a way to support children’s nutrition and regional ...

School Lunch Abroad That children outside the United States eat better school lunches than American children has also become a cliche; one in which there is a grain of truth.

Nicolas Shahin holds his new fiber lunch tray in the cafeteria at Kingswood Elementary School which piloted the ‘Every Tray Counts’ program to transition all Wake County Public School ...

More North Country schools want to serve local produce for lunch. The Massena and Parishville school districts are partnering with local farmers now, at the start of the growing season.

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.