Community eligibility provision and school meal participation among student subgroups

ML Tan, B Laraia, KA Madsen… - Journal of School …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs help to
reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) …

The ecuadorian school food environment: association with healthy and unhealthy food and beverage consumption and BMI

MM Weigel, RX Armijos - Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Schools can play an important role in promoting healthy child diet and body
weight. However, this issue is understudied in Latin American and other populations …

Paying for free lunch: the impact of CEP universal free meals on revenues, spending, and student health

MW Rothbart, AE Schwartz, E Gutierrez - Education Finance and …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of
2010 allows school districts to provide free meals to all students if over 40 percent of them …

Parental reports of lunch-packing behaviours lack accuracy: reported barriers and facilitators to packing school lunches

DL Hawthorne, LJ Neilson, LA Macaskill… - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - dcjournal.ca
Purpose: Parents influence the foods their children consume and often provide proxy reports
of this intake. One way parents exert this influence is by providing home-packed lunches …

Children's school-day nutrient intake in ontario: a cross-sectional observational study comparing students' packed lunches from two school schedules

LJ Neilson, LA Macaskill, JMH Luk, N Sharma… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study compared the caloric and nutrient values of packed lunch contents and
consumption in the Balanced School Day (BSD)(two 20 min eating periods) versus the …

What do children eat in the summer? A direct observation of summer day camps that serve meals

EL Kenney, RM Lee, CJ Brooks, AL Cradock… - Journal of the Academy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background More than 14 million children in the United States attend summer camp
annually, yet little is known about the food environment in day camps. Objective Our aim was …

Smart snacks in school legislation does not change self-reported snack food and beverage intake of middle school students in rural Appalachian region

G Mann, K Hosig, A Zhang, S Shen… - Journal of nutrition …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective To assess the effects of the national Smart Snacks in School standards, which
include nutrient and ingredient limitations for school competitive foods and beverages …

Breakfast and lunchboxes provided to foundation phase learners: do caregivers' knowledge and attitude reflect their practices?

T Hansena, E du Toita, C Van Rooyen… - South African Journal of …, 2022 - ajol.info
Background: This study was conducted to determine nutritional knowledge, and to identify
whether caregivers' knowledge and attitudes related to their breakfast and lunchbox food …

Parent Perspectives of Packing School Lunches

K Lindquist, G Mann, A Farris, K Gordon… - Journal of Hunger & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The study explored parental attitudes and beliefs concerning child involvement in meal
preparation, and sending healthy packed lunches to schools. Focus groups (n= 6) and …

Parental and family predictors of fruits and vegetables in elementary school children's home-packed lunches across a school week

C Sutter, JC Taylor, A Nishina, LL Ontai - Appetite, 2019 - Elsevier
Home-packed lunches have been found to be of lower nutritional quality than school-bought
lunches, yet little is known about family-based factors associated with lunch packing. The …