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How the USDA Helped Bring Processed Food to School Lunch

Most adults don't have glorious memories of school lunch. It was sloppy Joes, shepherd's pie, spaghetti with meat sauce, and it was usually on the bland side. But the food wasn't bad, and it was almost always cooked from scratch by an army of school lunch ladies. How things have changed. A few ...

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July 30, 2009

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Tray Trends: Bubble-Gum-Flavored Apples, and Other Sights at the SNA Food Show

Imagine if Las Vegas built a Costco-themed hotel with a particular emphasis on chicken nugget samples and then filled the building with lunch ladies. That's the best way I can describe the School Nutrition Association's annual food expo, which is taking place right now in Vegas' Mandalay Bay Convention Center. ...

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June 30, 2009

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Tray Trends: Breakfast for Lunch

Breakfast for lunch is a hit with students in the Massachusetts school district I visited last week. The cafeteria director diverts her government commodity eggs to Sunny Fresh, a processor that serves food manufacturers and chain restaurants as well as schools, and receives boxes of scrambled egg patties and individually ...

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June 6, 2009