Sentences with phrase «kind of a school food»

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Since school lunches are kind of a different beast altogether, I color - coded all those standard items in green and keep them organized down the right hand side by food group, so it's easier to be sure the kids have a balanced lunchbox.

I know, scalloped potatoes don't really sound very good... kind of like grade school cafeteria food.

Packing school lunches can be a pain sometimes, but I think it's worth the effort... and, call me weird, but I think it can actually be fun to get creative and see what kind of food and color combinations I can come up with!

From fast food to taco shops, Asian bistros to fine dining establishments, I worked at nearly every kind of eatery while in school.

Yet it's sobering to realize that, in most experts» estimation, Congress hasn't yet fully funded school meals as they're currently conceived, replete with all kinds of highly processed, heat - n - eat foods.

Probably because that kind of change is hard, and demonizing the little guy — the local student nutrition director and local radio DJ last year, or the small restaurant operator and local school superintendent this year — is easier and less risky than taking on the real «bad guys» — the elected officials, the giant Agribusiness players, the networks that broadcast all of those fast food and junk food ads to our kids and also, oh yes, broadcast Jamie Oliver's shows....

Speaking for myself, this is the kind of food I'd like to see offered at my children's school — healthy, fresh offerings cooked from scratch and — though kid - friendly — pushing children's palates beyond pizza and burgers.

You can check out the salad bar, see what kinds of foods they are serving and — I think most elementary schools try to have volunteers there to help the kids make smarter choices and encourage the fruits and veggies; at least this is what my daughter's school told me - and you can see what the set - up is like.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

While I kind of wished she had just skipped the stuff altogether - I think an even bigger lesson was learned - about looks and taste - and we have fed them such quality food that they don't like school food or prepackaged treats!!!

We often hear this kind of thinking from people who are new to the school food reform movement, or from students just starting to get involved with trying to make changes.

But Moss» s reporting has shown that school food officials have found the bad kind of E. coli in the material where they least expected — the trimmings.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

«Mommy will still buy food and make dinner for you» and «Daddy will still take you to school in the mornings and to sports practices on the weekends» as these kind of concrete events are what mark a child's world as predictable and understandable.

Maybe because I'm a pretty uninspired school - lunch - packer, I've always been fascinated by parents who make beautiful bento lunches for their children - you know, the kind with adorable characters molded out of rice, foods cut into perfect shapes, and... [Continue reading]

Tanner left the world of managing retirement portfolios in pursuit of something that would leave «a different kind of legacy,» enrolling as a food policy grad student at New York University with the intention of becoming a school food services director.

The district awards a single food service contract for its 600 schools, discouraging the kind of relatively small, nimble operation Boundas runs.

It's very common that one twin will have a preference of the foods that they like while the other are the more of the kind of I will called the other one [inaudible] I don't know if I'm the only one who thought them would be old school but that's what I think of.

I kind of think that school lunch should be run as a not for profit, so that there are no profit dollars built into the cost of the food.

One of her points: from the kinds of junk - food products exhibited, you would never know that the SNA was at war with the White House over USDA's nutrition standards for school meals (see my previous posts).

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

This article from a local Boulder, CO paper discusses the newly - launched fundraising campaign, and points up the very issue we've been talking about so much in recent weeks here on TLT: namely, can a district offer the kind of healthful food that Chef Ann champions without extra funding (over and above what the USDA reimburses schools)?

I received a media advisory yesterday from my friends at School Food FOCUS indicating that Chicago Public Schools and its food service provider Chartwells will announce today a first - of - its - kind initiative to serve only * chicken raised without antibiotics to the city's K - 12 studeFood FOCUS indicating that Chicago Public Schools and its food service provider Chartwells will announce today a first - of - its - kind initiative to serve only * chicken raised without antibiotics to the city's K - 12 studefood service provider Chartwells will announce today a first - of - its - kind initiative to serve only * chicken raised without antibiotics to the city's K - 12 students.

While General Mills supported some of the new rules, the company had previously urged USDA to delay implementation of the standards and asked for more flexibility about what kinds of food could be sold in schools.

While outright bans may be seen as going too far, some kind of restriction on junk food in schools seems like a sensible adult decision, given the impact of obesity on children, families, and the health care system so well documented in Weight of the Nation.

However, from my personal experience and from what I've heard from many parents in different school districts, it's not uncommon for food service to balk at changes of any kind.

As prevalent and influential as they may be, rebates are treated as a kind of third rail in school food services.

But Justin isn't alone: About 5 % of school - aged kids have some kind of food allergy, putting them at risk of an allergic reaction at home or, even more dangerously, away from home.

One school or district may have a partnership with a large corporation, like Whole Foods, allowing them to source some healthier food items for a favorable price; if your school district can't get the same deal, then this will affect whether you can offer the same kind of meal for the same price as a district which does have a low cost source for better food.

If we allow them to try more complex foods that «adults» eat, I believe that there will be a good portion of the under 18 population that actually will enjoy these kinds of foods, as are sometimes served in French schools.

In my experience — meaning traveling the country for the last year and reporting on school food on a daily basis — everywhere you see these kinds of success stories there's a professional chef standing squarely in the middle.

«We want the food they get at school to be the same kind of food we would serve at our own kitchen tables.»

«When we send our kids to school, we expect that they won't be eating the kind of fatty, salty, sugary foods that we try to keep them from eating at home,» Obama said in a news release.

In a linked editorial, Dr Kathryn Fitzgerald of John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, emphasises the caveats for an observational study of this kind which relies on food frequency questionnaires that are not fully able to describe different types of fat.

For that matter, is limiting the sale of these foods outside of school different from limiting what kinds of movies they can attend?

«A contact allergy is a different kind of reaction from allergies to pollen, pet dander or food,» said senior author Wayne M. Yokoyama, MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the School of Medicine.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

Gabriella set out to find out why cost effective lunch options containing «real» food, the kind of food that many families try to serve at home, were missing from school's lunches.

I've made it super easy for you to do what I do with my 4 - week program — just packed with helpful insight about how to know what foods to eat every day, what the right amount of protein is for you, what the right kind of carbs are, how to order when you're eating out — all the practical knowledge you need to know without having to go to school for nutrition.

See, when I was a kid, lunch time was kind of «sacred»: 2 hours break, school teachers had wine but otherwise we ate the exact same food cooked during the morning in the canteen kitchen.

And if you wonder what kind of school was that, where you discussed food during a math class, well that was our math teacher; she would have, from time to time, a nice 10 minutes discussion with us, (math unrelated), to make us think, to open our minds.

Better eating rates This article was so informative and interesting, I just wish this kind of food was available in all our public schools.

I do a lot of things, at least for my bodybuilders, of kind of removing some of the more old school rules about needing to eat only a specific, short list of foods, or having to eat every 2 to 3 hours.

Growing, processing, shipping, and preparing food — particularly the kind Americans typically eat (and schools typically serve)-- requires huge amounts of energy and produces tons of waste: Animal agriculture contributes nearly one - fifth of the greenhouse - gas emissions responsible for climate change — 1 pound of beef generates the equivalent of 36 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to researchers.

A health - food pilot program launched last year at San Francisco's Aptos Middle School, which used to sell «all kinds of junk food,» according to PTA representative Caroline Grannan, has turned out to be a financial — and nutritional — success.

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Rees: A local school district does not tell charters when to open or close their doors, what kind of curriculum to use, what company to contract for food or paper.

Kids are divided, like the adults in their schools, on the kind of food schools should provide for lunch.

I have been running NGO for child workers by providing all kinds of facilities including school fees, cloths and food.