{"id":1590,"date":"2014-01-19T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2014-01-19T06:02:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T11:02:40","slug":"1590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/1590\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Your Child Eating in a School Lunch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tray-Talk-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1600\" title=\"Tray Talk\" alt=\"logo for Tray talk\" src=\"https:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tray-Talk-.png\" width=\"173\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #003366\">The School Nutrition Association (SNA) launched a PR campaign called Tray Talk in 2010. The official website (<a title=\"www.TrayTalk.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.traytalk.org\/\">www.TrayTalk.org<\/a>),\u00a0is designed to emphasize the benefits of school meals and showcase success stories from school nutrition programs nationwide. SNA members can help send positive messages about school meals by submitting their own \u201cschool nutrition success stories\u201d at the Tray Talk website.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366\"><strong>Here is some of the information shared on the site:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><strong><span style=\"color: #003366\">School meals are well-balanced, healthy meals that are required to meet science-based, federal nutrition <\/span>standards.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>No more than 30% of calories can come from fat, less than 10% from saturated fat<\/li>\n<li>Meals must provide 1\/3 of Recommended Dietary Allowances of protein, vitamins A and C, iron and calcium<\/li>\n<li>School meals are served in age-appropriate portion sizes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Every School Lunch Includes five choices that add up to a great value:\n<ul>\n<li>Milk \u2013 Fat free or 1% \u2013 flavored or regular<\/li>\n<li>Vegetables \u2013 From jicama slaw to fresh carrot sticks<\/li>\n<li>Fruit \u2013 Everything from kiwi to locally grown apples; often fresh<\/li>\n<li>Grains \u2013 More whole grain items like rolls or sandwich bread<\/li>\n<li>Meat or meat alternate \u2013White meat chicken, bean chili, lean beef<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #003366\"><em><strong>\u00a0In January 2011, the US Department of Agriculture released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traytalk.org\/healthy-changes-coming-to-your-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposed nutrition standards<\/a> including new calorie and sodium limits, larger fruit and vegetable serving sizes and requirements to expand the variety of vegetables served in schools each week. The standards were finalized in 2012.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The School Nutrition Association makes the case for your child eating a school lunch saying, \u201cA school lunch provides students with their choice of milk, fruits and vegetables, grains and proteins. School meals are a great value and a huge convenience for busy parents. School cafeterias offer students a variety of healthy choices and help children learn how to assemble a well-balanced meal. Parents can be assured that there\u2019s no super-sizing in school cafeterias because federal regulations require schools to serve age-appropriate portions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366\"><em><strong>For more information on healthy school meals, visit <\/strong><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolnutrition.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.schoolnutrition.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-buttons\"><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"\" data-layout=\"button\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-show-count=\"false\" data-related=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-size=\"small\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-google_plus\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" ><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-linkedin\"><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"\" data-counter=\"none\"><\/script><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-pocket\"><a data-pocket-label=\"pocket\" data-pocket-count=\"none\" class=\"pocket-btn\" data-save-url=\"\" data-lang=\"en\">Pocket<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(d,i){if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(\"script\");j.id=i;j.src=\"https:\/\/widgets.getpocket.com\/v1\/j\/btn.js?v=1\";var w=d.getElementById(i);d.body.appendChild(j);}}(document,\"pocket-btn-js\");<\/script><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tay Talk talks about the value of school meals<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-buttons\"><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"\" data-layout=\"button\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-show-count=\"false\" data-related=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-size=\"small\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-google_plus\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" ><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-linkedin\"><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"\" data-counter=\"none\"><\/script><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-pocket\"><a data-pocket-label=\"pocket\" data-pocket-count=\"none\" class=\"pocket-btn\" data-save-url=\"\" data-lang=\"en\">Pocket<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(d,i){if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(\"script\");j.id=i;j.src=\"https:\/\/widgets.getpocket.com\/v1\/j\/btn.js?v=1\";var w=d.getElementById(i);d.body.appendChild(j);}}(document,\"pocket-btn-js\");<\/script><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[164,1927,255,444,7,331,1893,1886,330,329,332,333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}