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Preceding today's programs is a long history of more than a hundred years of development, of testing and evaluating, and of constant research to provide the best in nutrition, nutrition education, and food service for the nation's millions of children in school.
During the first half of the twentieth century the school lunch program gradually evolved into one of the largest social welfare programs in the United States. With an annual budget of about $28 billion a year [1], daily school lunches are now served to over 30 million children every school day [2].
"The federal government, in major new changes for the nation's school-lunch program, wants to call ketchup and pickle relish vegetables, offer tofu as a substitute for meat and serve peanut butter or nuts as main dishes at noon.
The school lunch movement first emerged in Europe in the late nineteenth century. Great Britain and Germany implemented the most extensive feeding programs alongside other benevolence efforts, such as the distribution of clothing and textbooks, under centralized oversight from national governments.
3 sie 2021 · The National School Lunch Act expanded access to school lunches in the 1940s—but didn’t improve the menu. By the early 1940s, every U.S. state had federally supported lunch programs in...
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is the Nation’s second largest food and nutrition assistance program. In 2006, it operated in over 101,000 public and nonprofit private schools and provided over 28 million low-cost or free lunches to children on a typical school day at a Federal cost of $8 billion for the year.
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day.
