School Nutrition Association

Great to see positive events regarding school nutrition programs.

I love it! What a wonderful event!

Thanks, TN! :)

Wonderful opportunity!!

I believe that children do need more fruits and veggies on there plates. I am not to sure of limiting the calorie amount that they get. Some children this is there only healthy meal that they get all day. We need to push for more physcail activity with kids. They sometimes get no physcail activty when they get home. I know after watching ... Read Morechildren where I live which is a major city they sometimes spend hours getting home from school do to the bussing system down here. Here Kids no longer live in there school distract and can walk to sschool so go all the wat across town to school on buses. I say bring back PE everyday as part of the school lesson plans.

So great! Come become a fan of our team, the Child Nutrition Outreach Program in Massachusetts!

Congratulations, Patty for doing something fantastic! Barbara Belmont

I hope this experience will send more money to the program

I am so glad NSLW is over. We are swamped with feeding just our students. Promotions turn out more customers than I want. I'm just sayin...but we handled it.

In my opinion as a Child Nutrition Employee we strive for the best nutritional value we can provide for our dollars. It would be in the best interest of our children for the public to understand that it is not only Child Nutrition's responsibility to feed our children good healthy meals it is also the parents responsibility to provide good ... Read Morenutrition . The key factor here is not to assume or accuse each other of wrong doing but to find the best sources of nutrition for our money, teach by example and promote good healthy habits.

TO, organic food is almost twice the price as food that's not listed as organic. Schools already struggle to provide healthy nutritious meals for $2.76 per meal from buying commercially available food. Until more money is injected into the NSLP, that's not realistic. The current average cost to serve a meal is $3.16 for non-organic meal ... Read Morecomponents. Just do the math. If you want to have any chance of seeing organic food in school meals, you need to start lobbying for higher meal reimbursement rates, or organic will never be a reasonable, or affordable purchasing option for schools.