The Urban School Food Alliance has joined several other national organizations in the attached letter to leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the House Education and the Workforce Committee, and the House and Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees...
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2023 – Last November, the Urban School Food Alliance joined Cafeteria Culture in hosting the first ever Plastic Free Lunch Day, a nationwide initiative to reduce plastic foodware and packaging in school cafeterias across the country. During the...
Lunchables, the popular prepackaged meals aimed at kids and the time-pressed parents tasked with feeding them, have been a staple on school cafeteria tables for decades. But now, some of them won’t arrive from home in lunch sacks or boxes — the brand is offering a...
U.S. agriculture officials on Friday proposed new nutrition standards for school meals, including the first limits on added sugars, with a focus on sweetened foods such as cereals, yogurt, flavored milk and breakfast pastries. The plan announced by Agriculture...
School districts around the country are drowning in students’ lunch debt. Three months after the federal government stopped providing free school meals to all public school students, some districts are reporting thousands of dollars in unpaid bills. In one district,...
When schools began to close in March 2020 due to COVID-19, school nutrition programs rapidly became feeding centers in their communities. Instead of serving students in cafeteria lines, schools were on the front lines of a global pandemic, providing critical meals to...
For immediate releaseContact: Debby Lee Cohen – 917-282-0253, [email protected] Urban School Food Alliance – [email protected] Cafeteria Culture - [email protected] WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2022 – On November 2, 2022, Cafeteria Culture and the...
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Plastic Free Lunch Day expands, honors Cafeteria Culture founder Debby Lee Cohen
Apr 17, 2024
In their continuing effort to free school cafeterias from single-use plastics, Cafeteria Culture and the Urban...
Plastic Free Lunch Day returns with a week of action April 17 – 24
Mar 20, 2024
In 2022, the Urban School Food Alliance joined Cafeteria Culture in hosting the first ever Plastic Free Lunch...
Urban School Food Alliance joins panel at BeanCon24
Mar 1, 2024
Dr. Katie Wilson virtually attended BeanCon24, a global dry bean conference, to represent the Urban School Food...
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