Not exact matches
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Kid Rock, the 5800 - square - foot, 230 - seat restaurant is open year round for lunch and dinner, offering a
menu of classic Detroit and Southern - influenced dishes, along with traditional comfort
foods and bar fare.
A suggestion Have you thought of going into school and doing a
kids menu / birthday party etc to get the idea across that healthy
foods are delicious.
I also like to have
food on hand for babies and young
kids if we go out for a meal and there's not much suitable for them on the
menu.
«The
menu must appeal to
kids, but adults have to see a
menu that has quality
food options.
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«I hope our cafe will have a
menu that has ingredients, not numbers, and fulfils that circle of what we teach the
kids in the garden program about the value of healthy, nutritious
food.
After years of pressuring fast
food giants to stop marketing sugary sodas to children — Dairy Queen has announced that it will be removing all soda pop products from their
kids menus, by September 1, 2015.
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And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk
food advertising; requiring
food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering
kids a real understanding of our
food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast
food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's
menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk
food); improving
food access; and so much more.
School lunches: Balancing nutrition with what
kids like (Gainesville Times; November 20, 2011): This balanced article explores the realities of school foodservice, and the impact health and restaurant trends have on how school
food professionals develop
menus, balancing what
kids like with nutrition requirements.
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.
If we do eliminate the a la carte options that
kids so love and introduced a single, healthful
menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those
foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).
My weekly blog posts on French
Kids School Lunch Project have attracted a lot of interest: each week I post a
menu from a different school in France, and discuss the French approach to
food education at home and at school.
The system is also structured to let children's preferences dictate the
menu because if
kids don't take the lunches, the
food providers get less money.
I can not tell you what your picky - eating three - year old will prefer, but Kristal's family's
food gems were: the Village Haus restaurant in Fantasyland (was tucked away but had a great
menu and
kids meals including a toddler meal!)
but again, there were too many questions like «where do i start, what is feasible in my district, why did the chocolate milk come back and why is it so hard to get it off the
menu (i know the answer to that now), why are there so many excuses and not enough nourishing
food for
kids, why does it have to take a decade or three to make a few
menu reform changes?
Back in December, the Los Angeles Times reported that
kids in Los Angeles USD were spurning that district's new, healthier school
food menus — even to the point that some students were reportedly suffering from
I used to decry the endless array of junk
food - type items on
menus, even if improved somewhat, but now I'm coming around that you have to meet
kids where they are and go from there.
Again, as with the general «fast
food» style
menu, it teaches the
kids that sugary drinks are perfectly acceptable on a regular basis.
one challenge school
food reform has is that when
menu changes (with healthier ingredients or scratch cooking) participation goes down (
kids reject the taste), and that doesn't provide the budget to maintain the changes.
There will a quite a bit of wasted
food at first, but if you persist
kids will soon start to eat what on the
menu.
I think city councils could do more good for
kids by considering other
food and
kid scenarios like banning soda served to
kids in public schools, or requiring
food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer
kids real
food choices on the
kids menu.
Has the prevalence of what I call «doctored junk
food» (nutritionally enhanced pizza, burgers, corn dogs, nuggets and Frito Pie) on school
menus rendered the cold sandwich somehow «uncool» among
kids?
Back in December, the Los Angeles Times reported that
kids in Los Angeles USD were spurning that district's new, healthier school
food menus — even to the point that some students were reportedly suffering from headaches, stomach pains and even... [Continue reading]
Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of
kids are not eating the healthful new
foods on the cafeteria
menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday.
In the program that I work for we sit a plate of healthy
food down in front of the
kids and they turn their noses up at it, and why wouldn't they I send home a form asking the parents for imput on the
menus and all I get back is chicken nuggets and hot dogs and this year I even had one parent put oreos down for a snack!
Proof that, like Mrs. Q. says, «children's
menus» and «
kids»
food» are manufactured phenomenons.
Kids» meal orders at fast - food restaurants have declined 15 % since 2006 to just under a billion, while dollar - menu items ordered by or for kids have increased 29 % in the last five ye
Kids» meal orders at fast -
food restaurants have declined 15 % since 2006 to just under a billion, while dollar -
menu items ordered by or for
kids have increased 29 % in the last five ye
kids have increased 29 % in the last five years.
Some nights you can plan to go to family - friendly restaurants, where your
kid will be entertained with crayons and filled with
food from the
kids menu.
Kid's
menus feature recognizable items like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and burritos; some airlines even offer restaurant - sponsored fast
food meals.
But as I've talked about quite a bit on The Lunch Tray (starting with my very first post), it does concern me that our
menu is currently still weighted almost entirely in favor of «
kid food» (or what one source in Janet Poppendieck's Free For All calls «carnival fare»).
-LSB-...] options for school
food — the federal school meal program and an a la carte
menu — has been shown to create painful stigma among
kids who must, for financial reasons, rely on the school meal.
In all honesty, I'd give the Frito Pie a pass if it didn't come with a big old lump of starch; I'd also give it a pass if it didn't, as you point out, share
menu space with a whole bunch of similarly meat - y, cheesy, starchy, salty, «
kid - friendly,» quasi-made-over versions of junk
food favorites.
Bust out the aprons, assign your
kids and their friends to different restaurant roles (cook, waitress, hostess) and have them collect orders, practice preparing
food, draw
menus and get creative with their
menu offerings.
Order from the
kids»
menu, if there is one, or go with finger
foods, like fries and chicken nuggets, that your child can dip into an assortment of accompaniments for added amusement.
But for now my goals are more modest: just more freshly prepared
food, more whole
foods, fewer highly processed and chemically - preserved entrees, and a more varied
menu, particularly at the middle and high school levels, so we don't teach our
kids it's OK to eat pizza and burgers five days a week, week in and week out.
Learn how to expose
kids to new
foods, explore the various sensory aspects of all kinds of healthy
foods and expand your child's
menu!
While it's ok to let your children splurge on this
food once in a while, make sure you consider the healthier items on the
menu and encourage your
kids to try new things on a daily basis.
So the theory is, that if we introduce our babies to really flavorful
foods that we like early on, we'll be less likely to be preparing a separate
kids menu until they are teenagers.
Some studies also measured plate waste — the
food taken and later discarded by
kids — and found that it stayed the same or declined after the transition to healthier
menus.
Although areas such as
menu variety and
food waste still have room to improve, these studies demonstrate that
kids are accepting and benefiting from school lunches that meet today's strong national standards.
The old
menus included «
kids food» —
food - like objects such as pizza sticks and breaded beef patties.
Some of these same analyses also measured plate waste — the
food taken and later discarded by
kids — and found that it either stayed the same or declined after the transition to healthier
menus.
I finally started printing our
menu out so that I could talk to the
kids about making good
food choices at school.
And although my
kids do tend to like the
foods on a
kids menu if presented with them, until my oldest could read, we made the choices for them, no matter where the choices were on the
menu.
David: Calling typical
kid -
menu fare «familiar
foods» is actually part of the problem.
I'd mentioned the article as part of a larger discussion of whether we adults have abdicated too much power to children when we create school lunch
menus that are entirely comprised of «
kid food» like pizza, burgers, chicken nuggets, mac - n - cheese and the rest.
At the two restaurants we frequent where we use the children's
menu (as opposed to just giving the
kids food off of our plates), at one we order mac & cheese (made in - house, not Kraft) with a side of canned mandarin oranges, and at the other one we order cheese ravioli with marinara sauce.
And the results are in: 47 % of Lunch Tray readers are fine with
kids»
menus but wish they offered something besides «
Kid Food,» 17 % also wish they
Kid Food were prepared more healthfully, and 17 % fell into the mysterious «other» category.