Offering young children a healthy school lunch doesn’t mean they’ll eat it.While nearly 7 out of 10 school kids put a vegetable on their lunch trays, only about half of them took even one bite ...

The used lunch trays Emily Fox took home about four years ago from the loading dock outside her elementary school were gross, some still plastered with ketchup. Emily stacked the trays in piles of 10.

PODCAST: The gross truth of school lunch. ... In the fall of 2011, fourth-grader Zachary Maxwell set out to show his parents and the world his less-than-appetizing lunch tray reality.

Last school year, food giant Kraft Heinz began offering its signature Lunchables for sale to school systems across the nation. But there was so little appetite for the ultra-processed product ...

A Rhode Island school is ditching plastic foam trays at lunchtime in favor of reusable stainless steel trays and sporks. It’s cut lunch waste 90 percent.

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 ...

Smith curated “Lunchtime: the History of Science on the Food Tray.” Just days before it opened, school lunches were once again in the news. A minor political skirmish popped up in Washington as ...

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 ...

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.