Academies and free schools in England are not bound by government regulations on school food.
If the school food does, in fact, taste terrible, you can hardly blame the pupils for rebelling.
From its beginning, the National School Lunch Program has been woefully under-funded, according to many school food experts.
Ms Bull added that complying with nutritional standards of school food was compulsory for all local authority-run schools.
The backpack was given to Mary's Meals in Glasgow, a charity that provides school food for children in Africa.
The School Food Trust is losing its status as a public body, as part of ministers' drive to cut quangos.
But Judy Hargadon, chief executive of the School Food Trust, said it was vital that poor children ate the meals.
Since 2009, the school has partnered with the nonprofit New York Coalition for Healthy School Food to develop the healthy menus.
Our independent review of school food will examine how schools can do more to ensure children eat a healthy school meal.
The authority, which supplies 224 schools across the county, says its school food service produces 90% of the menu from scratch every day.
Our school food service professionals who are out there, they have dedicated their careers to helping our children grow up healthy and happy.
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In fact, the School Food Trust tells us that some of the best schools in terms of attitudes to food and meals are academies.
Academies are semi-independent schools, so they do not have to abide by regulations introduced in 2008 which set out strict nutritional guidelines for school food.
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Maybe, in the end, there is nothing that these small public schools can do but accept their lot at the bottom of the high school food chain.
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The School Food Trust said the continued rise, shown in its annual survey, more than compensated for a fall in take-up following TV chef Jamie Oliver's campaign on food quality.
He added that the government was asking the School Food Trust to carry out a small study of some academies to look at their approach to providing healthy school food to pupils.
And Compass Group, one of the biggest school food providers in the UK, says its tests have found between 5% and 30% horse DNA in burgers it sold in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Kevin Morgan, a professor at Cardiff University and the author of The School Food Revolution, a book about the supply chain behind cafeteria food, said the supply network was complex and should be better regulated.
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In their response earlier this year to a consultation on the new regulations, the CFT said: "In our view, the removal of these regulations could directly lead to the degradation of the school food service".
Ms Leather will also be the interim chair of the School Food Trust, which from later this summer will provide expert advice on school meals - and will include representatives of caterers, nutritionists, schools and parents.
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Of the 129 local authorities that provided information, nearly two-thirds said the equivalent funds would still be dedicated to school food, but one in five said there was no commitment to ringfence the money in future and one in 10 had not yet decided.
Additionally, the bank has served as an incubator for social programs including the youth music group Companhia Bate Palmas, a vocational school, food security projects geared toward women, a general store and Palma brand clothing and cleaning items.
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The lack of food before school - or only snacking on unhealthy food - means that pupils arrive unable to concentrate and more likely to behave badly, say teachers in the survey.
The bill establishes sensible nutrition standards for the food sold in school that will help push the junk food out of the building and make it easier for kids to have access to a nutritious meal or snack in school.
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She said the Department for Education should look at ways to better educate school pupils on food shopping and sell-by-dates.
Yet we still debate the merits of the federally funded WIC (Womens, Infants and Children) program, school lunches and food assistance to needy families.
School children in a Devon village have swapped their school dinners for pub lunches because of a lack of space in the school to serve food.
These are the findings of a recent study that conclude that cities where people drive to work, school and the food court at the mall contribute significantly to obesity in America.
After Oliver's campaign won huge public support, the government banned junk food from school canteens and vending machines, and in 2006 rules to make food healthier were introduced in English schools.
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