{"id":18834,"date":"2022-02-23T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=18834"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:43:06","slug":"new-york-city-school-lunch-program-features-vegan-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/23\/new-york-city-school-lunch-program-features-vegan-fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City School Lunch Program Features \u201cVegan Fridays\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Started on Friday, February 4, 2022, and continuing weekly, the largest district in the United States will be having \u201cVegan Fridays.\u201d On Fridays, food served at lunch in public schools in New York City will be vegan, according to an Associated Press article (1).\u00a0 A carton of cow\u2019s milk will still be offered on Fridays because this is required by the USDA. Children who cannot consume dairy milk due to a dairy allergy or lactose intolerance may receive a soy milk substitute (2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day students in New York City can choose a vegan\noption but on Fridays all students are served a vegan lunch unless they request\na non-vegan option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 11, here\u2019s what some of the vegan menus looked\nlike (3):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Express Cold Lunch: Italian Veggie Grab & Go Salad  and Confetti Corn <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hot Lunch: Mediterranean Chickpeas served with rice or\npasta; Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other planned offerings include a black bean and plantain\nrice bowl, a chickpea stew, and vegan tacos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about school meals see<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting\nVegan Food into Schools<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vegan\nOptions in a California School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vegan\nOptions in Portland, ME School Lunch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

School Food Lunch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VRG\u2019s\nSchool Lunch Testimony<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tempeh\nin School Meals<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. New York City school lunch menu going vegan on Fridays.\nAP News. https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-new-york-education-new-york-city-nyc-state-wire-bca2dcfd0dda46cb08160baf6ecfcc86<\/a>.\nFebruary 4, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. New York City Department of Education. Menus. https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/school-life\/food\/menus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. New York City Department of Education. Free Lunch Meals. https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/school-life\/food\/menus\/school-lunch-meals<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD Started on Friday, February 4, 2022, and continuing weekly, the largest district in the United States will be having \u201cVegan Fridays.\u201d On Fridays, food served at lunch in public schools in New York City will be vegan, according to an Associated Press article (1).\u00a0 A carton of cow\u2019s milk will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18836,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18834\/revisions\/18836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}