Checked trays in
lunch line for appropriate amount of food and type; cleaned and sanitized work areas
Next I pulled up Houston ISD's August / September lunch menu and let Jimmy go through
the lunch line for a single week (week of August 30th), picking what seemed to me to be the worst food choices I could find.
Not exact matches
If a joke flops,
for instance, she suggests this
line: «When [executive name] told me during
lunch that that would be a funny
line, I believed him.»
A salad bar can reduce food waste and eventually improve the bottom
line for school
lunch programs.
They got hitched during their
lunch hour, rushing across the state
line to Kansas, where it was not prohibited
for mixed - race couples to marry.
The classic pastor's greeting
line, «We're just one big happy family» ranks right up there with «I haven't got a racist bone in my body,» «I don't like yes - men,» and «We've got to get together
for lunch — real soon» as classic patent insincerities.
They'll be there
lined up
for lunch.»
But I was also thinking about the place we met
for a quick
lunch during that trip — it was one of those quick, assembly
line restaurants that can process hundreds of hungry office workers in a
lunch hour, ourselves included, and it was all about salads.
The salad bar was set up in each school at the end of the
lunch line, allowing plenty of room
for students to browse the available options and form a separate
line from the hot
lunch.
Make extra to eat throughout the week in grain bowls
for lunch and even - quicker dinners down the
line.
Mark and Sarah were in
line for lunch.
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I'm sitting at my desk in a building next to the Flatiron looking out over Madison Square Park and dreading how long the
line will be
for whatever overhyped
lunch spot I choose to go to today.
After a
lunch of soup, veal sandwiches, green beans, Lyonnaise potatoes and ice cream from a custard machine at the end of the service
line, Kennedy and Van Rheen split
for their afternoon classes.
I am so adamant about this I started my own company this year called EarthSAKS and designed a
line of reusable bags
for shopping and
lunches.
A bill in Congress pushes
for pizza and french fries on school
lunch line, and our children's health could be at stake.
My tree - hugger in training (with her eco-friendly backpack &
lunch bag) following daddy and Julian to
line up
for class
You can really save money by bringing in your own food, but the Pizza and Pasta Buffet
lunch has a decently fast moving
line up, tastes pretty good
for a treat, and is fairly good value.
The bottom
line on breakfast -
for -
lunch?
The new «zip
line» will offer cold
lunches already bagged
for the student, meals that include yogurt, grains, fruit and veggies with milk.
I'm not complaining — my waistline is shrinking and that's a good thing
for me — but I'm pained every day watching my hungry kids stay hungry after eating
lunch and nearly every day I have to comfort sad children who don't understand why they can't eat what they want when they are presented with a long
line of choices.
As a general rule, we like
for the entree plating to satisfy the grain / meat minimums so
lunch pairing is more cohesive, and so the staff doesn't end up slowing down the
lunch line by counting disparate components.
Junk food in the
lunch line, or vending machines, or even sold by school sponsored organizations
for fundraising, is a completely different issue.
When I was in school, I did not qualify
for free or reduced
lunch but I enjoyed (and still do) warm food versus a PBJ or deli meat sandwich from home, so I often took advantage of the hot
lunch line as a paying customer.
The fifteen minutes
for lunch often included the time spent coming, going, waiting in
line, and cleaning up.
We fully anticipated having to split up our days and head back to the hotel after
lunch for his naps (staying on property, especially on the monorail
line, makes this a breeze) but we didn't have to.
Balancing the need to keep their interest in
lunch with children's inherent need
for familiarity can be tricky, to say the least... so I'm walking the
line just like everybody else, between packing what I know he'll eat and what I want him to eat.
Sometimes it took 15 - 20 minutes in
line, leaving only 10 minutes
for lunch.
Though I haven't been able to get an answer from anyone on the exact amount of time allotted
for lunch / recess (and I'm told not all classes get a recess — which is another subject, that I will get into more on another day), I am being told once a classroom is scheduled
for lunch that they have 20 minutes from there to go through
line, eat, clean up, and get out the door — which if a teacher is running behind, a student misbehaves, or God forbid it takes 10 minutes to get through the
lunch line, there's a problem.
Some of that extraordinary work includes Dougherty County School System training students to harvest, wash, and prep product from their teaching gardens
for taste tests and to serve in the cafeteria, Elbert County School District featuring local strawberries on the
lunch line from a farm 20 miles away, and Dade County Schools utilizing experiential nutrition and garden - based education to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) standards.
«The bill also would mandate that the Department of Agriculture develop nutrition standards
for all foods sold in schools, not just what is served in the
lunch line.
NAPERVILLE — Pupils at four Naperville - area elementary schools are sinking their teeth into a pilot program
for a new
line of school
lunches for Indian Prairie School District 204.
Whether you are searching
for information on dairy
for your kids at home, or your kids in the school
lunch line, Dairy Max offers a host of useful resources to get you started.
And in California a three - year program testing two methods of controling dietary content of
lunches for 250,000 students has brought the average fat content from 38 to 40 percent of total calories to 29 to 33 percent, nearly in
line with national guidelines.
Art Dunham, director of food services
for Pinellas County, said palm scans make
lunch lines move faster to help make sure students get time to eat their food.
This Healthy Eating Play challenges students to set up quick, easy meals to grab on the way in to school, or in between morning classes
for breakfast, to speed up the cafeteria
lines during
lunch, or after school.
(
For new TLT readers, Wilma is an anonymous school food professional somewhere in the US who occasionally helps me out with her valuable perspective from «behind the
lunch line.»)
My kids have always brought a packed
lunch and, while they are in the minority, they are happy with their meals and the extra time they gain, not having to stand in a long
line for food.
For example, even the possibly - more - enlightened kids in Berkeley often turn up their noses at what sound like beautifully executed vegetable side dishes, either refusing to take them in the
lunch line or dumping them in the trash (actually, in the compost pail, since this is Berkeley, after all).
Over at Slow Food USA's blog, a student described and photographed this unbelievable concoction, sold in his cafeteria as an «a la carte» option
for kids who don't want to wait in the long
lunch line.
Our district had to fight
for 20 minutes of seated
lunch time (not counting time spent in the
lunch line) but in practice, it's just 20 minutes total.
MSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news
for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the
lunch line without the ability to pay.
For example, in 2011, I wrote a post about impoverished students here in Houston being photographed with cell phones in the
lunch line and shamed by their peers on social media.
Bottom
line is that teachers often bear the behavioural brunt of the inadequacies of children's
lunch (school provided or home made) and
for some schools radical approaches may seem more worth the fallout than others who may favour a softly creeping change.
I won't be posting today as I'm getting ready
for the Houston
Lunch Line screening and panel discussion tonight, co-sponsored by Applegate Farms and The
Lunch Tray.
And I think about the parents who don't have the time or money or resources or food knowledge to pack their kids»
lunch, from the single mom of my son's friend who has a super-high-powered job and no time, to the kids at his school who are well below the poverty
line whose parents can't afford to pack
lunch for them.
Then you'll want to see the documentary «
Lunch Line»,
for which The
Lunch Tray is, fittingly enough, a sponsor: Here's a trailer of the film and a recent review from The -LSB-...]
Just a reminder to Houston TLT readers: if you haven't yet reserved a seat
for the one - night - only
Lunch Line screening and panel discussion, be sure to RSVP soon (click the banner to the right of this post
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White - leather swivel stools with decent back support
line the long sushi bar; beyond that are free - standing wood - grain tables and molded - wood chairs, and a remote marble counter is equipped with electric outlets
for the
lunch - and - laptop types.
Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at
lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable
lunch line versus those who can purchase
for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy
lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.