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10 Classic School Cafeteria Meals from '50s to Today

From meatloaf and mashed potatoes to pizza Fridays and tater tots, these nostalgic cafeteria staples tell the story of ...
Modern Farmer

States Want to Put More Local Food on School Lunch Trays. What Does That Mean, Exactly?

In Utah, kids moving through the school cafeteria line at lunchtime can come across the Elliott apple, a yellow-gold fruit with a light blush of red. Discovered in-state and hard to get elsewhere, ...
Sentinel & Enterprise

FPS goes green with compostable trays in 4 schools

FITCHBURG — Being eco-friendly is extremely important in Fitchburg Public Schools. In Nutrition Services, a switch to compostable, non-styrofoam food trays has been in the works for close to four ...
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

How to make healthful meals that kids will actually eat? Siloam Springs food service staff seeks the answer

As they try to balance meals, the Siloam Springs School District's food service staff perform another balancing act: Make ...
VegOut Magazine

8 school cafeteria lunches boomers still remember more vividly than their report cards

Long before food trends and meal prep, a generation learned its first life lessons through the strange, comforting chaos of ...
The Press of Atlantic City

Plastic trays reduce waste at school

Sixth-grade student Kayla Drisch and food service director Sue Lynch demonstrate one of the new plastic food trays that have been introduced into the Brigantine School District. By no longer using ...
Smithsonian Magazine

American Schools Have Been Feeding Children for More Than 100 Years. Here’s How the School Lunch Has Changed

Philadelphia children eating a "three-cent dinner" at school, featured in the 1913 book School Feeding: Its History and Practice at Home and Abroad Science History Institute A new exhibition in ...