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Meals On Wheels Facing Critical Shortage Of Funds

An agency that helps provide meals to the elderly is itself in need of help. Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County is dealing with a critical shortage of funds. Executive Director Carla Jutson said state and federal budget cuts created a $400,000 shortfall.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/03/15

Study: Big Health Benefits When Families Eat Meals Together

Researchers have been looking into the benefits of families eating meals together and the results of a recent study say contributing less than five minutes more a day can improve a child’s health.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/02/05

North Texans Give Back On Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving kindness played out over and over across North Texas today. People helping people was the order of the day.

CBS 11–2012/11/22

Cafeteria workers prepare lunches for school children. (credit: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

School Lunches To Have More Veggies, Whole Grains

The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings, including popular pizza, will come with less sodium and more whole grains.

2012/01/25

Where’s The Salt? Hidden In Your Thanksgiving Menu

No need for a salt shaker on the Thanksgiving table: Unless you really cooked from scratch, there’s lots of sodium already hidden in the menu.

2011/11/22

Former Texas Prison Cook Wants Last Meal Continued

A former Texas inmate who cooked the final meals for hundreds of condemned prisoners is offering to start doing it again at no cost to the state now that officials have ended the practice of allowing the special last requests.

2011/09/26

Lawrence Brewer is set to be executed for the dragging death of James Byrd in 1998. (credit: Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

Texas Prisons Stop Special Last Meals For Killers

Texas prison officials say they’re stopping special last meals for condemned inmates facing execution after an elaborate request from a convicted killer in a notorious dragging death prompted complaints.

2011/09/22