Sentences with phrase «about school cafeteria food»

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

On both this blog and The Spork Report, I've written extensively about «competitive foods,» i.e., the food and beverages sold on school campuses in competition with the federal school meal, through outlets like vending machines, snack bars, and cafeteria «a la carte» lines.

Kobayashi explained: «The cafeteria at my school serves about 15 different kinds of food.

Even before reading the Times story, my concerns about food allergic kids led, in part, to my writing my Food - in - the - Classroom Manifesto (in which I argue that school classrooms should be food - free), and I certainly support accommodations for food allergies in school cafeterfood allergic kids led, in part, to my writing my Food - in - the - Classroom Manifesto (in which I argue that school classrooms should be food - free), and I certainly support accommodations for food allergies in school cafeterFood - in - the - Classroom Manifesto (in which I argue that school classrooms should be food - free), and I certainly support accommodations for food allergies in school cafeterfood - free), and I certainly support accommodations for food allergies in school cafeterfood allergies in school cafeterias.

AC: Since kids eat lunch every day at school (whether it's packed for them at home or offered in a school cafeteria), I see it as a perfect opportunity to talk about the ways that their food is connected to their environment, their health, their community and issues of equity around the world.

«But what particularly irks me about SideKicks and similar products marketed to school food directors is that they totally subvert the cafeteria's potential to serve as a nutrition education classroom.»

While the blog was devoted exclusively to the LFTB issue, San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow (creator of the immensely useful school food reform how - to site, PEACHSF.org) wrote two important articles in Beyond Chron about an issue often discussed here on TLT: social stigma in the school cafeteria.

If we want the school cafeteria to be a place where children learn about food, it needs to be fully funded — not based on the number of children who choose to partake in the healthy school meal.

Tell everyone who handles the food your child eats, from waiters and waitresses to the cafeteria staff at school, about the allergy.

Anyone who has ever been in an American school cafeteria knows one thing: It's not all about the food.

I blog about kids and food daily, especially school food, but I'm embarrassed to admit that last Friday was the first time in a long while that I've actually been in my own children's school cafeteria during lunch.

We're talking about the snack foods and beverages offered on school campuses through outlets like vending machines, school stores, snack bars, cafeteria «a la carte» lines and more.

A new Cornell study analyzed 112 studies that collected information about healthy eating behaviors and found that most healthy eaters did so because a restaurant, grocery store, school cafeteria, or spouse made foods like fruits and vegetables visible and easy to reach (convenient), enticingly displayed (attractive), and appear like an obvious choice (normal).

35 Celebrate Fitness and Sports Month in May; rising food prices hurt more healthful - lunch initiatives; health experts express concerns about in - school coffee shops; network links community, classroom, and cafeteria to promote wellness.

Forum: Lunch Reforms Needed as Kids» Health Worsens What children are taught in class about nutritious foods and what appears in school cafeterias often are at odds, according to educators and health.

Engaging students as partners in the school cafeteria extends far beyond student complaints about food quality and fighting.