by Andy Eckles | Sep 8, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
September 8th, 2015 – This is a useful article for an important topic. Read more about the story here.
by Andy Eckles | Sep 4, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
September 4th, 2015 – In advance of an impending reauthorization of nutritional regulations implemented in 2010, major food corporations are expected to support continued action to improve standards in their products. Initially resistant to the regulations,...
by Andy Eckles | Sep 3, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
September 3rd, 2015 – This would perhaps have been a bit timelier yesterday. The Des Moines-based casual restaurant Zombie Burger has been serving a type of sandwich with a pizza bun; the pizza, interestingly enough, is basically what you’d have had in...
by Andy Eckles | Aug 31, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
August 31st, 2015 – The upgrades in student meals at districts is a topic we’ve covered to one degree or another, but it’s always good to see some detail in a story about what students today are served versus what students from ten or fifteen or...
by Andy Eckles | Aug 24, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
August 24th, 2015 – Perhaps one of the most prominent reasons to move toward healthier food and beverage choices in schools has to do with heavy physical activity at the start of the year, when summer temperatures are still the norm. With some energy drinks...
by Andy Eckles | Aug 20, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
August 20th, 2015 – The practice of school districts to begin the academic year after Labor Day is not unilateral as it is, but we may see the year beginning before then for those districts that do practice this…especially in light of the recent long-range...