Sentences with phrase «food initiatives»

PCSD partners with EATS (Eat Awesome Things at School) to inspire new school food initiatives, including lunch taste tests, after - school cooking classes, and school gardens.

A new food initiative at the district, which began last year and is expanding this school year, was started as a way to encourage school children from 365U's Bolingbrook and Romeoville areas to eat healthier,...

Michelle Paterson, for instance, used her background in health care to spearhead fitness and healthy food initiatives in state schools, while Spitzer's wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, founded Children for Children, a kids» volunteering organization.

The six - month pilot will be run by Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE)- a social enterprise focused on improving health and well - being for those in poverty.

Over the past few years, the Institute has published national reports inspiring food leaders to action and the development of new healthy and sustainable food initiatives in parks across the country.

Called «Feeding our Future,» the five - week series about kids and food has featured such notable guests as Alice Waters, White House chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives Sam Kass, Chef Jonathan Waxman of Barbuto (and Top Chef Masters!)

A new food initiative at the district, which began last year and is expanding this school year, was started as a way to encourage school children from 365U's Bolingbrook and Romeoville areas to eat healthier, according to district officials.

They have been active in local food initiatives, hosted numerous skill - building workshops, and focused on cultivating the «Inner Transition.»

Walmart, the largest food retailer in the United States, and other supercenters that often target budget - conscious consumers, are continuing to increase their organic food offerings — both Walmart and Target announced new organic food initiatives in 2014.

Unidine's healthy fresh food initiatives include local, organic produce available for purchase in the New Milford Hospital cafeteria and a healing garden (above) on the hospital's loading dock.

Welcoming the investment, Irish minister of state Shane McEntee identified the British market as one that held «considerable growth potential» for the Irish dairy sector, within the context of industry targets under the government - led agri - food initiative Food Harvest 2020.

We are proud to join our industry partners in the Further with Food initiative to share solutions and best practices for reducing waste,» said Laura Abshire, Director of Sustainability for the National Restaurant Association.

The activities of the SAVE FOOD initiative play an important role to fight against food loss and food waste, mainly by raising awareness and by providing platforms to discuss on the issues of food loss and waste.

The Peoples» Food Plan — conceived to reform the federal government's proposed National Food Plan by including Australia's smaller - scale farmers and the myriad small business, social enterprise and community - based food initiatives that populate our commercial and civil society — was Australia's first crowdsourced policy directions document.

(You can read about a similar Orfalea - funded school food initiative here, and my interview with consultant and S'Cool Food partner Kate Adamick here.)

Among those grants is funding from the Orfalea Foundation «s S'Cool Food initiative, and the report directly credits Orfalea with all those great things we see on Friday's show — the organic garden, the workers trained in scratch - cooking, even the gleaming kitchen equipment:

Yet Marion Burros, guest blogging at Obama Foodorama (the «the blog of record» for White House food initiatives) reports that the East Wing is referring all requests for comments over the pizza issue to the USDA.

For its Freedom Food initiative, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will certify that the products bearing its logo have been humanely produced.

The «eat well, do well», Hull school food initiative showed that a packed lunch was more likely to provide an excess of calories at lunchtime, with more calories from fat, as well as more saturated fat, sodium and sugar.

Help your kids stay healthy on campus and learn about current health epidemics, vaccination requirements, physical fitness programs and the latest food initiatives.

The FAO - led Save Food initiative is partnering with international organizations, the private sector and civil society to enable food systems to reduce food loss and waste in both the developing and the industrialized world.

We have heard one positive announcement coming out of the National Food Plan: the establishment of a $ 1.5 mn small grants program for Community Food Initiatives.

Jacqui Macalister, Sustainability Innovation Manager of IKEA, will share the Swedish retailer's sustainable food initiatives.

Research like this is unlikely to settle the matter but it ought to help school personnel who are working hard to make sure that kids get something decent to eat and to move ahead on school food initiatives.

We discussed the final regulations, and how the new standards differ from current requirements, with moderator Cindy Brooks, Chair of the School Nutrition Association Public Policy & Legislation Committee and guest speakers Sam Kass (White House Assistant Chef, Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives), Dr. Janey Thornton, PhD, SNS (Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services at USDA), and Melissa Rothstein (Deputy Director, Child Nutrition Programs at USDA).

The field study was commissioned by the FAO and financed through contributions from members of the SAVE FOOD initiative.

This is partly due to the amount of media attention that has been given to food waste, which is partly the merit of the SAVE FOOD initiative.

J.O. also recently announced a few new healthy food initiatives.

That's why the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative is so important, because we're investing in things like food hubs.

At 11:30 a.m., Manhattan BP and NYC comptroller candidate Scott Stringer unveils «Go Green» food initiative; 227 Cherry St., between Rutgers and Pike streets, Manhattan.

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And when the Obama Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture promotes their Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative, what do they count?

Topics covered include everything from local food festivals to potential civil unrest in the face of rising fuel prices to urban community gardening to supermarket's phoney «local» food initiatives - click below the fold for parts two, three and four.

On September 1, 2012, in a post on the White House Blog entitled, «Ale to the Chief,» Sam Kass (White House Assistant Chef and the Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives) wrote that the time had come to share the recipe with the world.

You can download the Good Practice Guide for School Food Initiatives (pdf) here.