WASHINGTON The Agriculture Department is responding to criticism over new school lunch rules by allowing more grains and meat in kids meals. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told members of Congress ...

During the next few years the U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to limit the amount of added sugars that are in school meals. The change is part of the agency’s continued effort to make school ...

Beef jerky, Rice Krispie treats and four varieties of Mazzio’s pizza are a few of the à la carte choices in the lunchroom at Jenks High School outside Tulsa, Okla., where football is king and the ...

The New York Times calls it a victory. Not for kids, of course, but for “the makers of frozen pizza, tomato paste and French fries”: Congress has voted to block rules proposed by the Agriculture ...

FARGO - With a flock of hungry Davies High School Eagles looking on, Sen. John Hoeven held a lunchroom press conference Thursday to assure his youngest and hungriest constituents that he'll get ...

Returning to school for a new academic year, students around the country were met by a federally mandated cafeteria policy that gave them more whole-grain bread products and required them to take ...

Returning to school for a new academic year, students around the country and right here in Goffstown were met by a federally mandated cafeteria policy that gave them more whole-grain bread products ...

No one should have expected that putting more vegetables in front of elementary school students would instantly turn them into an army of broccoli fans. Plenty of food has been thrown out since new ...