Sentences with phrase «sna takes»

I, too, dislike the fact that SNA takes handouts from the food and beverage industries, and I have no doubt that these industries have driven or supported at least some of SNA's goals.

Many of my fellow food advocates have pointed to the fact that the SNA takes a significant amount of money from corporate «patrons» like ConAgra and PepsiCo, and they therefore allege that SNA's entire effort is being directed by Big Food.

Not exact matches

So I hope you can understand that people like me, watching SNA from the outside, can only take our cues from the organization's behavior.

If the SNA won't take a stand on this issue, the rest of us need to get our voices heard.

So when Poppendieck herself came by The Lunch Tray yesterday and took me to task for some things I've recently written about the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, you can imagine how hard that criticism hit home.

Before we send March out like a lamb, we wanted to take a moment to look back at some of our favorite moments from LAC 2016 in Washington, D.C. SNA's 2016 Legislative Action Conference was held February 28 through March... Continue reading →

The nomination deadline is Friday, October 21, 2016 and our 4th Annual Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes will take place on Monday, April 3, 2017, during SNA's Legislative Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

SNA may be too entrenched now to want to modify their position, and they've got different counsel, and it takes a lot to change positions once they're approved by the board.

But instead of trying to bridge that gap by fighting for funding and other support for struggling school districts, the SNA, which claims in its mission statement to be «committed to advancing the quality of school meal programs,» chose to take the easy way out.

Nineteen past SNA presidents took the extraordinary step in May of breaking with the association's leadership by writing their own open letter to Congress urging it to stay the course on healthier school food.

If you are a current or former SNA member who believes your leadership is on the wrong track, please take a moment to sign and share this letter.

Instead, SNA squandered all of that political capital and took the easy way out.

It's National School Lunch Week and it's no surprise that the School Nutrition Association (SNA) and its allies are taking this opportunity to press their case for gutting federal nutritional requirements that would make school food healthier.

Specifically, the SNA sought to: gut the new whole grain standard from 100 percent «whole grain - rich» to 50 percent; halt further sodium reductions in school food; and revert to the old system under which kids could pass up all fruits and vegetables a lunch, instead of being required to take a half - cup serving.

Mark has taken his message about the Foundation and the Annual Fund to state conferences, where he shares his own scholarship story with other SNA members to help inspire them to both give to the Annual Fund, and take advantage of the resources available to them through SNA and SNF.

In my opinion, we members of SNA and proud of our profession, can strongly encourage and educate students; however, we should not force any student to take an item he doesn't want to choose.

(The SNA has taken no public position on the Reducing Federal Mandates on School Lunch Act.)

That possibility seems all the more likely since the SNA will not be taking the opposite tack, i.e., staying the course when it comes to healthy food and trusting kids to get used to the new offerings, but also asking Congress for more money to fund the law's requirements.

But the House committee isn't taking the SNA's criticism lying down.

In several posts written last year, I took the School Nutrition Association (SNA) to task for not asking Congress for more money to fund healthier school food, instead seeking only to roll - back school meal nutritional standards («School Food... [Continue reading]

It's National School Lunch Week and it's no surprise that the School Nutrition Association (SNA) and its allies are taking this opportunity to press their case for gutting federal nutritional requirements that would make school food... [Continue reading]

I'm going to leave this issue here for today, but in the coming days I'll share here my own thoughts regarding some of SNA's proposed changes to the school meal regulations, particularly the issue of requiring students to take fruits and vegetables.

But now the House Education and the Workforce Committee has passed a CNR bill that's so wrongheaded, even the SNA is taken aback and urging its members to speak out against it.

Among the modifications advocated by the SNA are: removing the new requirement that students take a fruit or vegetable with their meal; changes to the whole grain requirements; and extending the comment period for the interim final competitive food (school snack) regulations that are to go into effect this summer.

An SNA member since 2011, Beveylon encourages other members to take advantage of all of the resources available to them through their membership.

National School Breakfast Week March 6 - 10, 2017: «Take the School Breakfast Challenge» SNA Legislative Action Conference - April 2 - 5, 2017 Washington, DC

SNA is specifically asking Congress to revert back to 2010 standards that require only half of all grains offered to be whole - grain rich, leave sodium levels where they are until research proves further reductions benefit children and do away with the requirement that forces kids to take the half cup of fruit and vegetables with every meal, since most students end up throwing them away.

In it, she takes issue with a position paper just released by the School Nutrition Association («SNA»), the leading organization of over 55,000 school food professionals around the country.

It's the same thing with the fruits and vegetables — lunch ladies often report that students are dumping their mandatory servings of produce into the trash uneaten, so the SNA wants to have the requirement that students must take a fruit or vegetable serving dropped.

Conference Photos Attendance or participation in SNA meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the attendee for SNA's use and distribution of the attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions and audiotapes taken during the conference.

Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (returning to the old system in which kids could — and often did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell on a daily basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only on the same day they appeared on the main lunch line.

While the SNA has told me it's not «taking a position» on this pending legislation, it certainly hasn't said anything to oppose it.

Caldwell said she first became worried about SNA's new direction in March, when she attended the group's legislative conference and was handed a policy paper asking for significant changes to the school meal regulations, including eliminating the requirement that students take a fruit or a vegetable and rescinding strict sodium limits set to begin in 2017.

Becoming involved with the SNA charged me up to take an advocate position with my kids and school lunches to not only continue a healthier menu but also to make sure my kids start making better decisions.

United Fresh has taken a pavilion at SNA's meeting in Boston this summer.

Jerry Hagstrom, who writes the daily Hagstrom Report, took a stab at explaining why SNA shifted position:

Last May, nineteen past SNA presidents took the extraordinary step of breaking with the current SNA board by writing their own open letter to Congress urging it to stay the course on healthier school food.

The SNA says the feds need to take a second look and test the idea before forcing schools to raise prices nationwide.

Take Action: Oppose Child Nutrition Block Grant Proposals SNA members are encouraged to contact their Members of Congress to urge them to oppose efforts to block grant school meal programs.

-LSB-...] background helps explain why 19 past SNA presidents recently took the highly unusual step of publicly breaking with their own organization to urge Congress not to roll - back healthier school food standards.

In several posts written last year, I took the School Nutrition Association (SNA) to task for not asking Congress for more money to fund healthier school food, instead seeking only to roll - back school meal nutritional standards («School Food Professionals Versus Kids: How Did It Come to This?

-LSB-...] for comment on the fact that 19 past SNA presidents have taken the rather extraordinary step of publicly breaking rank with the organization by urging Congress to reject the waiver amendment.

I disagree with Dana that «There is not a single «ask» in SNA's Position Paper that would not be taken care of by more money».

The event was part of the School Nutrition Association's (SNA) 38th annual Legislative Action Conference and took place in Washington, DC.

Now in his first year as a school nutrition director, Clark encourages all SNA members to take advantage of SNA resources, and to cultivate opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Other SNA members should absolutely take the time to fill out a scholarship application, said Sarah.

Having been in and around the school nutrition profession since the age of five — Laura's mother was very active in the Mississippi chapter of SNA — Bounds knows what it takes to be an effective manager, but says that Sandy is much more than just an excellent employee.

But when we're talking about rolling back a requirement that kids take fruit / veg with their meal, and instead go back to the «beige old days,» or when we're talking about reinstating the ability of schools to easily sell a la carte items like pizza every single day (instead of tying such sales to the menu on the reimbursable line), that is a per se «weakening» of nutrition standards — regardless of how pure SNA's motives may be in asking for those changes.

The exact education sessions you have taken by key area at ANC will not be populated in your SNA My Account online record.

The billions of dollars of 37xx and SNA software revenues were blinding the IBM executives toward the huge, rapid, transformational change which took place.