Sentences with phrase «about school cafeteria»

For years, Minooka Community High School students have been unhappy about school cafeteria food, with some saying the greasy pizza and chicken nuggets sometimes left them feeling nauseated.

José Andrés had just come back from Manatí and Dorado on Puerto Rico's northern coast, bursting with excitement about school cafeterias.

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I was saving 50 % of my after - tax income after about six months of working because I stayed late and ate all the free cafeteria food, and I shared a studio with my friend from high school.

In other schools in the district, staff were a little more nervous about the introduction of salad bars to their cafeterias.

If your child has a life threatening reaction (say to peanuts), and your school isn't a nut free zone (ours isn't), then talk with the principal and cafeteria staff about setting up a peanut free zone in the cafeteria.

Two tablespoons is about the amount of paste commonly found on the cardboard slices that pose as pizza in far too many school cafeterias.

Back in 2011, we learned about how Idzorek was developing recipes for school cafeterias using Alaska grown - and - milled barley flour.

Editorial: Healthier NJ school lunch menus provide nutrition instruction in cafeteria (NJ.com, September 10, 2012): Healthier school food isn't just about healthier for its own sake, but to help keep kids learning, even at lunch.

«Fried Food In School Cafeterias: «It's About Freedom and Liberty,» Says Ag Commissioner» (Austin, TX NPR) April 20, 2015 broadcast

What do you think about the cafeteria meals in your school district?

once they started public school and ate in the cafeteria once a week, my older one didn't care for the canned fruit claiming a «chemical» taste as the reason, my younger one was enthusiastic about spiced apples, mandarin oranges and pineapple tidbits and requested the same at home.

I thought about this when I was helping in the school cafeteria yesterday; the first half of kids through the lunch line had their oranges cut into quarters and almost everyone ate them; towards the second half of lunch the oranges were whole and the kids had to be coaxed to eat them.

I encourage you to read the post, but also take a look at the comments section, where an interesting conversation is taking place about the possible unintended consequences of shifting subsidies around, and also some practical input from me and fellow school food blogger Ed Bruske about the critical difference between serving produce in school cafeterias and getting kids to actually eat it.

Allow your child to come up with a couple of things that can be fun about school even if it only includes a friend, or pizza day in the cafeteria.

Dismayed by what she saw getting served up in the cafeteria — and by how it tasted — Mrs Q. decided to eat school lunch every day during 2010 and write, anonymously, about her experience.

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In other schools in the district, staff were a little more nervous about the introduction of salad bars to their cafeterias.

There's even a prime - time network reality show (Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution) that takes place in school cafeterias and has stars bickering about chicken nuggets and federally mandated grain servings.

Check back on the blog next week for an in - depth look at both visits, as well as our interviews with the cafeteria manager, district director, school principals — and even a few thoughts from students about what they like about BIC.

That said, there have been legitimate questions raised about the safety of some of them — particularly aspartame and acesulfame - potassium — and we are troubled by any plan to increase their availability in school cafeterias.

Early last year, I told you about a Houston man, Kenny Thompson, who generously paid off the cafeteria meal debt of 60 students at the elementary school at which he serves as a mentor and tutor.

In addition to supervising twenty - six school cafeterias, she teaches a sanitation foundations class where other SN professionals learn about cross-contamination, food temperatures, and all of the other ins - and - outs of working in a school kitchen.

Fed Up With Lunch Appalled by cafeteria offerings at her Chicago public school, a teacher (aka Mrs. Q) resolves to endure the school lunch every day for a year and write about it anonymously in this blog.

The truck visits area schools and also gathers feedback from students on iPads about the new potential menu choices — Do they love it, can it be improved, should it be added to the regular cafeteria menu?

Cafeteria managers across the state had complained for a year about food that reeked of ammonia, but state and federal regulators failed to alert school districts.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

For months after the incident, cafeteria managers and school officials throughout the state complained repeatedly about the noxious smelling food.

Many school cafeterias have students on work / study working in the cafeteria and this can make training about food allergies and EpiPens more difficult.

In the last two weeks, both this blog and the national media have featured a rash of stories about children having their lunches taken away by cafeteria employees due to unpaid lunch balances, and I also told you about a generous Houston school tutor / mentor who recently paid $ 465 of his own money to clear the debt of over 60 students.

As I've said often, including in my very first post on this blog, what school cafeterias implicitly teach our children about food and food choices is as important as the food itself.

Today's New York Post has a story (in which I'm quoted) about eighth grade students in Queens who, due to school cafeteria overcrowding, will be required to eat their «lunch» this year at 9:45 am.

By the time the students got to middle school, they were more positive about eating in the cafeteria, seemed to have a preference for produce in season and were conscious that their eating choices could help or hurt the environment, according to the report.

During the school year that ended Friday, about 84 percent of Chicago public school students received free or reduced - price breakfasts and lunches, meaning that with summer's arrival, nearly 342,000 children are no longer receiving the meals each day in their school cafeterias.

With the closing of USDA's period for public comment on the new proposed competitive food rules, we've had a lot of discussion here about the food and beverages offered to school kids via vending machines, school stores, and cafeteria snack bar or «a... [Continue reading]

Last summer I told you about new federal regulations, now in effect, requiring free drinking water in all school cafeterias («Getting Drinking Water Into Schools - Not As Easy As It Sounds.»)

Most middle schools and high schools, attended by children aged about 11 to 17, also do not sell fruits and vegetables outside traditional cafeteria lunch lines so that students can find them at random times, the report showed.

Now, about those 1 million polystyrene foam cafeteria trays that get tossed out at CPS schools each week...

The 100,000 - square - foot school, with 138 parking spaces, would sit on about 21 acres and include two gyms and a cafeteria plus a stage..

She spoke to Reuters about her passion for healthy eating and helping school cafeterias around the...

Investigators think most of the victims ate tainted cafeteria food at 53 public schools in Sakai, about 265 miles southwest of Tokyo.

The basic tenets of good nutrition are sneaking their way into the public consciousness, especially in school cafeterias, where concern is mounting about the typical fare of high - fat, deep - fried foods frequently served for lunch.

Having my first child in school (who loves hot dog day in the cafeteria) is really making me think more about school lunches.

Okay, so what if you have taken the above steps to do your homework about what you school's cafeteria is serving, and you still have serious concerns?

The almost weeklong protest resulted in a 22 percent average drop in cafeteria sales on each day ---- costing the school about $ 860 a day, school officials said.

«It's all about time management,» says Cherise Lavier, who runs the cafeteria at Hayhurst School.

FROM TPP — Some schools install hand sanitizers in the cafeteria, but if you think about, kids need to wash hands before eating and take bathroom breaks whether they are coming from the classroom or outside.

While impoverished families and those inside the school food world have known about lunch shaming for decades, the intense viral reaction to those two Times stories made clear that most Americans had no idea that kids with meal debt are stigmatized every day in school cafeterias around the country.

Cafeteria and school staff expects to see and is concerned about wasted fruits and vegetables; as a result, staff may be more likely to notice this waste, and not other, less healthy discards.

What I've learned over a period of months photographing school meals, blogging about them and traveling around the country investigating the school meals program is that while the movement for healthier school food has clearly identified where cafeteria meals go wrong, it has failed to articulate a clear message about what a healthy school meal should look like and how it's to be paid for.

Why He'll Love It: This pogo stick will take your kiddo from beginner to expert in no time, and it gives him a pretty unique skill to brag about in the school cafeteria.