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USDA to allow more meat, grains in school lunches

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Side salads await the students of Eastside Elementary School in Clinton, Miss.

Associated Press/Sept. 12, 2012

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Last year, after USDA first proposed the new guidelines, Congress prohibited USDA from limiting potatoes and French fries and allowed school lunchrooms to continue counting tomato paste on pizza as a vegetable.