Sentences with phrase «in lunch rooms»

This experience is not just limited to their lunchtimes within classes, but also in lunch rooms.

The idea of our children sitting in lunch rooms drinking powdered shakes is about as dystopian as continuing to feed them overly processed junk foods.

Millions of dollars are at stake here — not to mention the larger issue of whether the enticement of rebates and discounts induces FSMCs to put more sugary, salty and highly processed food in our lunch rooms.

Her photographs of that food and her accompanying blog, Fed Up with Lunch, provided an eye - opening expose of the kinds of meals served to millions of American schoolchildren in lunch rooms around the country: mysterious, shrink - wrapped entrees, fried chicken patties, the ubiquitous square pizza and highly processed PBJ «sandwiches» that crumbled to the touch.

Clearly such foods are not offering the «highest level of nutrition» possible, but as long as they're sold in our lunch rooms, kids like the one above will make an entire meal out of them — to the detriment of their own health and their ability to learn effectively in the classroom.

You even have free snacks in the lunch room and a game room to help them relax.

On the exclusion spectrum, you'll find everything from accidentally leaving someone off a calendar invite to purposefully avoiding an individual in the lunch room.

@Ken Freedom goes both ways, an employer is expected to pay an employee for work, give them lunch breaks and such as well as a clean environment, free conversation in the lunch room and access to a rest room and band aides, saftey standards and offer health care.

Now you tell me: what embarrassing thing happened to you in the lunch room?

I just watched the wax episode during lunch and died in the lunch room.

My school has a very small eating area, so a «peanut zone» in the lunch room was not possible without risking cross-contamination exposure because of the severity of this particular child's reactions.

agree with Kass, schools need help from the community to make real food in the lunch room a reality for students.

Personally I don't think the choices children make in the lunch room until we start to change the environment and time they have to eat it.

«And the chicken sandwich - that «s the main thing that all the students like in the lunch room.

Could a cup of water be available in the lunch room?

It's not in the lunch room but in the halls, so the dynamic of seeing what others are doing must be different.

I decided I'm all for Big Brother in the lunch room.

Make everyone sit in the lunch room for the full allotted time, so that no one can «rush» out to the playground for recess (i.e., not eating)

There's chaos in the the lunch room.

If students are inappropriately taking pics in the lunch room or elsewhere, that is a separate issue from whether we should have the a la carte line or not.

In the Lunch room we didn't have as much of a problem in grade school.

they just put a drink dispenser of water in the lunch room.

This is the reason kids can't be trusted to use anything but a spork in the lunch room.

Check over any nutrition information listed on the lunch menu or in the lunch room.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

I firmly believe everyone has the right to a healthy lunch — and there's no reason why we can't ensure that schools don't differentiate between free, reduced, or regular breakfasts / lunches in the lunch room.

They can stay in the lunch room as long as they need to, but after 10 minutes, they begin to move the stragglers to another table.

Even whats served to these young kids in the lunch room blows my mind.

A la carte foods tend to be the least nutritious in the lunch room — pizza, fried chicken sandwiches, slushies, Rice Krispies Treats and the rest — but they are desirable and «cool» to students.

In fact, to the extent children are being fed junk food in the classroom, it's likely they will then consume less of the nutritionally balanced, taxpayer - subsidized meal offered in the lunch room.

Bettina Siegel said: Social stigma in the lunch room — preventing a world of «haves» and «have nots» when it comes to healthy food.

On Taste Washington Day, the FFA students from the high school visit all of the schools and talk about local agriculture and serve samples to all of the students in the lunch room so everyone has the opportunity to sample the fresh, local products.»

It gets attention by the aides in the lunch room that my boys always bring GREAT lunches that I pack for them... FYI I'm a lunch lady in the school cafeteria!

This means that only kids with money in their pockets can buy these popular items, creating a stark class distinction in the lunch room.

But keep in mind that your child is the one eating the lunch... or not eating it.You have very little control over what actually happens in the lunch room so take a collaborative approach to answering these questions.

The Southwark district of Central London recently instituted free school lunch for all children, regardless of income level, as a means of reducing stigma in the lunch room.

I feel that I have achieved healthy and no waste packaging in the past, but this year I want them to be eager (and pleasantly surprised) to find out what is inside in the lunch room!

I know it would not be a popular option for the teachers, but it would be a calming influence if we had an adult at each table in a lunch room, real cutlery and some one actually eating the veggies on the plate.

There is one person plus one volunteer (if they show up) to watch the students in the lunch room (about 80 to 90 per grade, meal times overlap slightly for each grade — elementary age students) and two people to watch on the playground.

But if the water tastes awful (as my son says it does in his lunch room), what's been gained?

Hello im 38 year old female and over weight but I know its all the cokes i drink and should cut down.But I don't eat veggie or fruits.I might eat a apple but I don't like none of it really.I eat corn and taters buts thats it.When i was like 9 my school had this rule that you had to eat all veggie and fruits or you sat there till you was done.Let just say I didn't make good grades cause I was always in the lunch room till the end of the day or if i did force them down i'd get sick.My mom talk to the school after coming home sick all week.So to get them to stop doing that my mom had to pack my lunch.Well alot of kids started packing there lunch to and they stop that rule cause nobody was getting school foods and lost alot of money.Every since then i can't put veggie of fruit in my mouth but corn, taters, and a apple.What should i do to get health without eatting veggie and fruits or im I to far gone to help.thanks

«If a parent volunteer had stood up on the stage in our lunch room and explained what was on kids» trays...»

If a parent volunteer had stood up on the stage in our lunch room and explained what was on kids» trays, and maybe even offered a little incentive like an «I Tried It!»

The idea was that the student - grown produce would featured and kids could sample it in the lunch room.

That might mean a slower menu roll - out than LAUSD attempted; it might mean more menu - testing and student input; it might mean using Brian Wansink's consumer psychology to encourage better choices; and it most certainly means nutrition education at every possible juncture, from classroom lessons to school gardens to volunteer «food boosters» in the lunch room encouraging experimentation.

As children get older and graduate to junior high and high school, more unhealthy options are available in the lunch room such as ice cream machines and soda machines.

Here's my popular interview (originally published on March 31, 2011) with Dr. Brian Wansink of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab about the various tricks he's discovered — some of them deceptively simple — that alter consumer behavior in the lunch room.]

What if someone says, «I don't think we should have cookies in the lunch room.»

A school mate of his got up and moved away from him in the lunch room when her son sat down.

BW: In some lunch room studies we did also do plate waste studies, but looking at aggregate trash isn't really instructive since, for example, we don't know how many people took all those green beans we find in the trash can.