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Schools downsize lunch: Federal guidelines call for more fruits, vegetables and less pasta, bread and meat

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School lunch

Second-graders Tyler Sheeler, left, and Seth Repici pick out vegetables for their tacos Thursday in the school cafeteria at Carl T. Mitnick School in Lower Township, Cape May County. New school lunch guidelines this year require more fruits and vegetables and less meat and carbs be offered to students.

Staff photo by Dale Gerhard

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Second-graders Alexandra Wallace and John Tillotson pick out vegetables for their tacos Thursday in the school cafeteria at Carl T. Mitnick School in Lower Township.

Staff photo by Dale Gerhard

School lunch

Ava Figueroa, a second-grade student at the Carl T. Mitnick School in Lower Township, eats lunch Thursday in the school cafeteria.

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