Sentences with phrase «many lunch tray»

I started The Lunch Tray back in May, 2010, shortly after I became involved in school food reform in Houston ISD.

Instead of insisting that students take one fruit or vegetable each day at lunch, West New York School District (WNYSD) students willingly fill their lunch trays with healthy produce.

Bristol, Vermont Walking away from the salad bar with lunch trays packed with vibrant veggies, students in Bristol, Vermont are exclaiming «I love those beet things!»

By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC 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 (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Read more

Reposted with permission by: Bettina Elias SiegelLast month on The Lunch Tray's Facebook page I shared a link to an eye - opening special report in Parents Magazine about hunger in America.

We somehow «met» through The Lunch Tray and I was taken not only with Justin's passionate commitment to providing school kids with healthy, delicious and sustainable meals, but also with his nuanced and clear - headed thinking about school food issues.

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I may even have a Lunch Tray booth set up at the market — if that's happening, I'll let you know.

Janet: Thanks very much for coming by The Lunch Tray to leave this comment.

As I close out the first week in my new digs here on The Lunch Tray, I just wanted to send out a thank you to all of you....

But this morning SNA's spokesperson, Diane Pratt - Heavner, left a comment on The Lunch Tray which included Ronnei's response to Woldow's piece.

I'd never visited Dana's website (or The Lunch Tray!)

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-LSB-...] In addition, almost all school food advocates felt that the bill was grossly underfunded, providing only a six - cent - per - meal increase that was unlikely to significantly improve the food on kids» lunch trays.

-LSB-...] few weeks ago I ended my post, «Confessions of a Sideline - Sitter,» by urging Lunch Tray readers to get actively involved in improving school food (as well as food -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] recently on one of the most passionate school food advocates Bettina Elias Siegel's blog, The Lunch Tray, speaks to this -LSB-...]

Thanks for all of the hard work you put in on The Lunch Tray, Bettina — and especially thanks for continuing to work so hard even while school is out and your kids are on vacation.

-LSB-...] was originally published as a guest post on The Lunch Tray) A few years ago I was asked to share the story of my transition from military pilot to mother for -LSB-...]

First of all, welcome to The Lunch Tray and let me humbly apologize for my unforgivable snark about your wardrobe.

So when Poppendieck herself came by The Lunch Tray yesterday and took me to task for some things I've recently written about the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, you can imagine how hard that criticism hit home.

Thanks to Casey for sharing her views today on The Lunch Tray.

And, by the way, Jeanne has signed on as the «dessert blogger» for the virtual Food Day progressive dinner party hosted next week by The Lunch Tray, Red, Round, or Green and Eat Dinner.org.

Welcome to The Lunch Tray!

When I interviewed Wansink here on The Lunch Tray soon after, that «dissemination» was taking the form of regular newsletters sent to members of the School Nutrition Association, each explaining a different technique to get kids to eat better in the cafeteria.

So if something is bugging you about kids and food — whether it's the unnecessary «refueling» with Oreos at the 10 am soccer match, the prevalence of highly processed food on your child's lunch tray, or the Sunday school teacher who hands out candy for good behavior — speak up and get involved.

Over the weekend, The Lunch Tray got a spiffy new design upgrade which offers all sorts of great new features.

As I've already argued here on The Lunch Tray, it's incumbent upon Congress to step up and fund similar nutrition education around the country if the HHFKA is to succeed in its goals.

And as we've discussed in detail here on The Lunch Tray, some states are using that discretion to the fullest, declaring that most or even all of their school year is exempt from the Smart Snacks fundraising rules.

Lori — Welcome to The Lunch Tray!

The Lunch Tray's Twitter feed selected by Food Tank as one of «118 Twitter Feeds Every Food Activist Needs to Follow ``

(It is for this reason that I wrote my new, free ebook, The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.)

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

You'll also be signed up to receive The Lunch Tray's new newsletter, which will share prior Lunch Tray posts as well as features like kid - approved recipes, cooking tips and tricks, kid - food news items and more.

Various Lunch Tray posts have appeared in Mark Bittman's «What We're Reading Now» column (June 25, 2015, June 4, 2015, September 27, 2013, October 10, 2013)

Bettina Siegel blogs about food and food policy related to children over at The Lunch Tray, but you may know her better for her work on «pink slime;» in 2012, she garnered more than 258,000 signatures on a Change.org petition that led the USDA to change its policy on a low - quality ground beef product used in schools.

One of the bravest is Bettina Siegel, who runs the Lunch Tray blog.

Siegel is a regular contributor to Civil Eats, sharing both original writing and Lunch Tray cross-posts.

Last night I received a Facebook message from a Lunch Tray reader that was so gratifying, I wanted to share it here today:

I found Real Mom Nutrition's blog through The Lunch Tray and love it — esp.

So get out your party hats, your plastic sporks and your styrofoam lunch trays, and let's kick off the JPD festivities!

* In a subsequent Lunch Tray interview with then - USDA undersecretary Kevin Concannon about the new daycare food rules, Mr. Concannon was quite frank about the role of money in this decision: because of Congressional underfunding, a recommendation that kids get only whole fruits and vegetables instead of juice was relegated to an optional «best practice» instead of being an enforceable mandate.

Bettina Elias Siegel who pens the always thought provoking The Lunch Tray fueled my school food frustrations via this post about the political fighting and blame going on over how and who is going to fix the school lunch programs and more.

The Lunch Tray's essay,» Legislate, Educate and Inoculate to Create Food - Savvy Kids,» chosen by a panel of expert judges (including former FDA commissioner David Kessler) as a winning entry in Slate «s childhood obesity crowd - sourcing effort, March, 2011

«I feel like he has come out so strongly in favor of policies that are so antithetical to children's health,» says Bettina Siegel, who runs the blog The Lunch Tray.

In The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom, I address a wide variety of topics including: how wellness policies and the new federal «Smart Snacks» rules relate to classroom junk food; the tricky problem of birthday treats and how to respond to your opponents on that issue; the use of junk food as a classroom reward; the use of candy as a teaching «manipulative;» kids and sugar consumption; and much more.

Three commentators here on The Lunch Tray felt the caps: made it harder to serve healthy choices like sandwiches and soups; discouraged scratch cooking over the use of processed foods; and gave school food directors an incentive to serve «empty calories.»

While I believe all the issues on The Lunch Tray are worthy of discussion (even if some are a little sillier than others), and even though we've certainly discussed childhood hunger here and will continue to do so, any site claiming to be dedicated to «kids and food, in school and out» really ought to take affirmative steps to help kids with no food at all.

I've also asked RFS founder Gracie Cavnar to guest blog on The Lunch Tray about some exciting plans the foundation has for its expansion, so look for that in the coming weeks.

I'm going to start investigating other advertising options and / or see if there are ways to better tailor the Google ads to The Lunch Tray's underlying philosophy — a philosophy that's decidedly anti-Trix.

Specifically, as I happily reported here on The Lunch Tray in October, 2015: