Daily Dish - March 8, 2005
National School Breakfast Week
National School Breakfast Week [3/7/05]
The following Daily Dish is part of a series for National School
Breakfast Week
March 7-11 is National School Breakfast Week, an observance aimed to
educate Americans about the benefits of the government-subsidized
National School Breakfast Program and the importance of eating a
healthy breakfast.
The School Breakfast Program was created in 1966 to provide
inexpensive, nutritionally balanced meals to children in public
schools across the country. The program currently reaches 8.1
million students in 78,000 schools and institutions. Any child may
participate in the program, but only children from low-income
households qualify for low-cost or free breakfasts.
Meals served through the School Breakfast Program must contain a
minimum of 25 percent of the daily-recommended allowances of
protein, calcium, iron, calories, and vitamins A and C. To find out
if your children qualify for low-cost meals and to learn more about
the program, visit the Web site of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service at
http://www.fnsusda.gov/cnd/Breakfast/Default.htm
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