Back in the day, people would haul their lunches around in metal boxes. Turns out, there were several good reasons for making ...

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Be it SpongeBob SquarePants or Tony the Tiger, food companies have long used cartoon characters to ... times as many vegetables on their lunch trays. The schools where only videos were shown ...

Many school districts are dealing with lower funding for meal programs. Back to school means back-to-school lunches, but this year they're costing more with food prices increasing nationwide.

More than 200 New Jersey school districts and charter schools don’t participate in the National School Lunch Program, effectively cutting their communities off from some expanded services that ...

Adelle Settle is working to eliminate lunch debt in Virginia and beyond. Millions of dollars in unpaid school lunch debt have been mounting in districts across the country, and one Virginia mom is ...

A boy from Ohio had the “worst birthday ever” after his school lunch was taken away because of an unpaid balance on his account. Jefferson Sharpnack told his grandmother, Diane Bailey ...

At the beginning of the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued waivers that effectively made school lunches free for nearly all public and nonprofit private school students ...

A bipartisan trio in the Senate unveiled a proposal Wednesday to require schools to offer nondairy milk options at lunch to accommodate students who are lactose intolerant or have other dietary ...

In “Bento Monogatari,” a Belgian short film that was released in 2010, a woman makes her husband a bento box for lunch each day, in an attempt to salvage their marriage. Traditionally, bento ...

There are 832 schools taking part in the lunch in school programme - Ka Ora, Ka Ako - involving 199,503 students. Photo / Bevan Conley National is questioning priorities of the school lunches ...

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