Sentences with phrase «isd school food program»

This week, podcast host Laura Stanley interviews Dora Rivas, former head of the Dallas ISD school food program and a former past president of the School Nutrition Association.

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At a June meeting between Houston ISD Food Services and its Parent Advisory Commitee, some PAC members suggested that rather than offering junk food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized progFood Services and its Parent Advisory Commitee, some PAC members suggested that rather than offering junk food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized progfood, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized program.

Here in Houston ISD, Aramark ended its 20 - year stint overseeing our school food program, which unexpectedly opened the door to new possibilities.

Meanwhile, Houston ISD does a brisk business in items like pizza and corn dogs, «carnival» foods the district is terrified to discontinue lest student participation drop and the entire school lunch program sink into the red.

In this post, I gleefully announced that after 20 years of management by Aramark, Houston ISD had hired Betti Wiggins, the much - admired school food director, to head up our meal program.

A source I spoke with at Houston ISD Food Services told me that salad bars in Houston schools (whether obtained through Chef Ann's grant program or by private fundraising) are simply «not sustainable;» i.e., the fresh produce required to regularly stock a salad bar is too expensive.

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

I am a former lawyer with some food regulatory experience, and after three and a half years of working on school food reform in Houston ISD, I'm relatively well - versed in how school food programs operate.