school lunch

Although schools in NJ are working to make school lunches healthier and tastier, many students disagree, saying they routinely discard their school lunch or purchase snacks as an alternative.

Students at a UK grade school went to lunch as if it was any other school day. They didn't realize they were in for a surprise performance from opera singers.

School is almost out for the summer in New Jersey and while many children look forward to getting out of the classroom, for hundreds of thousands of youngsters across the state, it means they no longer have access to breakfast and lunch.

New research claims lunches packed at home are not as healthy as the lunches served at school.

Pizza, french fries, hamburgers, tuna fish sandwiches and the like have always been a staple of school cafeterias. Then along came dietary restrictions and considerations for healthy alternatives – and school administrators were given more to think about when it came to planning school lunch menus...

Students who qualify for free or reduced price lunches in New Jersey will have access to meals all summer thanks to the New Jersey Department of Agriculture's Summer Food Service Program.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey authorities say six public employees have been charged with stealing a total of more than $10,000 from a school lunch program.

The House considered legislation on Wednesday that would allow some schools to opt out of healthier meal standards -- a proposal that has drawn a veto threat from the White House.

Last month we talked about one school in Smithville that threw away the lunch of a 10 year old due to the lack of funds in the kid’s lunch account. The question was whether or not this practice of throwing away a perfectly good lunch and giving a child a humanitarian lunch was somehow “cruel...

Imagine your kid is on line in the school cafeteria getting a hot lunch and is about to pay – but finds there is little or no money in their account. Suddenly the lunch lady swipes the tray away and tosses a perfectly good lunch away – giving the child a cheese sandwich or something else so that they don’t go hungry...