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.

School kids around the country are tweeting rather unfortunate pictures of the meals they're being served at lunchtime, and thanking first lady and healthy school food advocate Michelle Obama ...

The first lady is getting the blame for the how-gross-can-you-get trays of institutional food because of her advocacy of more whole grains, fruits and vegetables in public school lunch programs.

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

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

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 ...

Take this with a grain of salt. Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday defended public school lunches after many students spoke out about the less-than-appetizing meals — claiming those complaining just ar ...

Titled “Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray,” the free exhibition at Philadelphia’s Science History Institute examines school lunches in the United States through posters, ...

And as we walked around the school, there were lots of fantastic ideas. But then we walked to the cafeteria. And Adeline said, ‘I think we need a lunch tray.’ And I said, Well, ‘what do you ...

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 ...

ALBANY – 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 ...