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

Most of the food for school lunches is brought in from different ... Tucson Unified School District has partnered with nonprofit groups to buy local vegetables and grains, but Trump administration ...

And it’s not just in Utah. With schools back in session, many school districts will be putting food from local farms on kids’ lunch trays. Farm-to-school programs can manifest in many different ways, ...

Last school ... School Lunch Program at a later date. A Washington Post examination of Lunchables’ arrival last year in the school meals program revealed how the powerful food industry’s ...

The earlier versions of school lunches were provided by local groups and individuals ... Molded plastic lunch trays also started around this time. This helped students carry their food around ...

Smith curated “Lunchtime: the History of Science on the Food Tray.” Just days before it opened, school lunches were once again in the news ... What started as five food groups in 1916 fluctuated ...

Jonathan Ernst, the custodian at Needham Public Schools’ Middle School, used to take out nine barrels of trash each lunch ...

Houston and most other school districts abandoned washable plastic lunch ... trays, as does the 96,600-student Cypress-Fairbanks school district. "Cost is the biggest downside," Cy-Fair Food ...

Lunchtime at Nuestro Mundo Community School ... lunches during the last week of school. “The lettuce project is just the start of what is possible,” says Allison Pfaff Harris, REAP Food Group ...