Sentences with phrase «school food focus»

They immediately saw the immense value of bringing School Food Focus» legacy into our organization, to help us meet our mission.

TLT: Can you first give my readers a little background on both Food Corps and School Food Focus?

They are the single largest and longest - standing funder of the school food space, and we are proud to have had both FoodCorps and School Food Focus seeded by funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in our early days.

School Food Focus has improved the supply chain for healthier school food for nearly a decade, by working collaboratively with school district leadership, school food industry, farmers, producers, distributors, and government partners.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the lead funder for this merger, supporting the development of FoodCorps» supply - side initiative, which will stand on the shoulders of School Food Focus» long - time success in this work.

And as this work moves forward, School Food Focus will officially close its doors as an organization.

How does giving up local control to an organization like School Food Focus (and if you join a consortium like this, you do give up some control and have to work with their goals and priorities) really facilitate relationships with your own community?

Of course, School Food Focus has it's own... umn... focus, which might be something we want to think about here.

At School Food FOCUS, where I work with some of largest districts in the nation on school food procurement issues, antibiotics overuse in poultry production is part of my beat.

School Food FOCUS said: Great post about how to partner w / school food service directors to make change happen!

I received a media advisory yesterday from my friends at School Food FOCUS indicating that Chicago Public Schools and its food service provider Chartwells will announce today a first - of - its - kind initiative to serve only * chicken raised without antibiotics to the city's K - 12 students.

The effort is under partnership with the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming and School Food FOCUS.

To recap, CPS recently announced that it made a landmark purchase of 1.2 million pounds of local, whole - muscle chicken raised without antibiotics, the result of a months - long collaboration between CPS, School Food FOCUS, the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, Whole Foods, Miller Poultry, Michigan State University and Healthy Schools Campaign.

Last week, I participated in the national gathering of School Food FOCUS.

But that may be changing — if you didn't read about School Food FOCUS the first time around on TLT, be sure to check out this post which discusses how that group is helping to set up «regional food hubs» to improve efficiencies and lower the costs of local procurement.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.

«Buying raw frozen chicken at this scale is unheard of,» said Laura Stanley, of national co-operative School Food FOCUS, which helped the district procure the chicken.

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Efforts such as School Food Focus» National Learning Lab, Center for Ecoliteracy's California Thursdays, and Meatless Mondays have helped the District make substantial progress with their farm - to - school efforts.

For a long time I've wanted to write on TLT about School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty largest school districts in the country to improve school food.

Late last month, two well - respected and innovative school food organizations — FoodCorps and School Food Focus — announced their plan to merge.

Not exact matches

He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donatioFood Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donatiofood and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

Specifically, Food Sales West focuses on various channel segments, such as colleges and K - 12 schools, healthcare, hospitality, multi-unit chains and full - service restaurants, with dedicated directors overseeing each channel.

Focused on customer service, quality and innovation, J.T.M. serves thousands of schools, restaurants, military and government organizations, food distributors and retailers throughout North America.

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... [Continue reading]

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Crucially, there is also focus on highlighting what has worked well in other schools, in order to help participants identify some of the practical steps they can take to improve the food culture in their own school.

Focusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their sFocusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their sfocusing on finding quality items to feed their students.

Led by headteachers, supported by a committed bursar or business manager and passionate school cooks, these schools are focusing on the things that encourage children and parents to opt for a school meal: great food; social aspects such as short queues and being able to eat with friends; a nice place to eat; affordable prices; school food being seen as the cool or attractive thing to go for.

Indeed, I admitted up front that I love his whole Cockney thing (and find him generally adorable) and I feel very grateful to him for the attention he's focused on school food nationally.

In early 2010, Siegel became interested in improving the food in her children's school district, Houston ISD, and soon after launched The Lunch Tray, a blog focusing on «kids and food, in school and out.»

Kristi: I actually took a lot of heat a while back for not just defending milk but defending the dreaded flavored milk — or at least questioning why school food reformers were so focused on flavored milk versus versus many other, worse problems in the school lunch program.

The remaining 32,000 students who rely on school meals during the school day may not get enough healthy food to power them through to focus on their homework.

The main point of my 2011 post was to question why Jamie Oliver (whose «Food Revolution» show was then on television) was focusing so intensely on banning chocolate milk in American schools at a time when there were, in my opinion, far more pressing school food issues which would have benefitted from his celebrity and clFood Revolution» show was then on television) was focusing so intensely on banning chocolate milk in American schools at a time when there were, in my opinion, far more pressing school food issues which would have benefitted from his celebrity and clfood issues which would have benefitted from his celebrity and clout.

Sadly, chronic, diet - related health conditions are a pervasive problem at the school, so McCoy has focused her efforts on improving student health and wellness by improving the food they serve.

The focus on school food safety came at a joint Senate - House hearing that examined how lapses in federal oversight allowed contaminated meals to reach students.

Back in 2011, I wrote a piece questioning Oliver's laser - like focus on banning flavored milk in LAUSD, which struck me as low - hanging fruit and maybe the least of that district's school food problems.

So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition proschool meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition proSchool Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.

I encourage you to read the rest of Jane's entry, which also discusses the pragmatic reasons why school food became the focus of the Obama administration and other anti-obesity activists, even if improving school food is not going to be a panacea in the obesity battle.

Talk turns to healthier food as school board raises breakfast, lunch prices (July 27, 2011): Another story focusing on the balancing act required to make school menus healthier while dealing with rising food and meal costs.

This whole debacle reminds me of when Chipotle changed their bags to state their philosophy of «Food With Integrity» and focused on the pig, and Chipotle's FB page was inundated by high school and college kids who plastered its walls with endless postings about their so - called ethical treatment of their factory farmed pigs.

«USDA has continued to show flexibility in implementing these new standards, and Congress should focus on partnering with USDA, states, schools, and parents to help our kids have access to more healthy food, not less.»

Like you, my focus now extends well beyond school food to include the bigger picture: our broken food system.

I have spent some time writing about school lunch topics on my blog as well, but have recently been focusing on wider subjects in the sustainable food system as they pertain to government policy and activism.

Moreover, school districts themselves are too often cash - strapped and preoccupied with other goals to focus on changing their food.

According to FOCUS, school districts in Colorado and San Diego have already made significant progress toward developing their own regional food hubs.

For the last year or so, much of my writing on TLT (and in other outlets)- and my focus as an advocate - has been devoted to the long - running battle over school food nutritional standards.

When FOCUS works with a school district, it sets three main goals for school food: making it more healthful in general, obtaining more of it from local farms, and making it sustainable.

My own Food Services Director had told me that it had taken a relatively long time for FOCUS to make improvements in the poultry made available to schools, and that it was still hard to get products meeting the group's poultry specifications.

The idea behind FOCUS is simple: large school districts procure so much food that they have considerable market power (second only to the U.S. military when it comes to food purchasing), which FOCUS helps them leverage to pressure manufacturers into producing better food.