I have to say (and I think
most Lunch Tray readers would agree), you seem to be doing very well in terms of your children's acceptance of vegetables (at least in comparison to what goes on in my own home).
If there's one issue that drives
most Lunch Tray readers crazy, it's the steady flow of junk food in their kids» classrooms.
And, as you might expect given this self - selecting readership,
most Lunch Tray readers didn't take too kindly to Paul's position.
Not exact matches
You don't see
most of what I eat online and
most of my meals are far from beautiful, I often eat quick cook porridge for dinner, jars of peanut butter with a spoon for breakfast, tubs of hummus with slightly stale rye bread on the tube for
lunch and a few too many
trays of not - quite - right brownies when I'm recipe testing.
Flanked by fellow undergrads at a
lunch table, the
most improved player in college basketball is annihilating his
tray's contents — bacon cheeseburger, fries, fruit cup, orange juice — the way he does opponents in the paint.
-LSB-...] recently on one of the
most passionate school food advocates Bettina Elias Siegel's blog, The
Lunch Tray, speaks to this -LSB-...]
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.
In today's New York Times, Jane Brody reports on the recently released results of the CHildhood Obesity Cost - Effectiveness Study (aka «CHOICES»), which examined various possible approaches to curbing childhood obesity and chose two as
most likely to help: the imposition of taxes on sugary beverages and curbs on children's junk food advertising, both measures long supported here on The
Lunch Tray.
But I'll
most likely send out kid - and - food updates in the interim via the
Lunch Tray Facebook fan page — yet another reason to go over there and «like» it, if you haven't already (hint, hint.)
Many of us who've been in school
lunch rooms have seen children take fruits and vegetables (even when they're not required to do so, since
most schools use «offer versus serve»), yet still leave them untouched on their
trays.
The Number One
Most - Read
Lunch Tray post of 2015 was... [drumroll]...
As is often the case,
most reader comments are coming in on The
Lunch Tray's Facebook page, not here on the blog.
My friend Sally Kuzemchak at Real Mom Nutrition recently shared her top 10
most - read posts from last year (it's a great list, by the way — check it out), and that had me wondering: what
Lunch Tray posts were you reading
most often in 2015?
Lunch Tray readers already know my feelings about
most restaurants» children's menus: while they do offer parents convenience and lower prices, the menu items themselves are usually fat - laden and depressingly unimaginative, inadvertently teaching... [Continue reading]
One of The
Lunch Tray's
most popular guest posts ever, entitled «The Incredible Shrinking
Lunch Period,» was written back in 2011 by Chris Liebig, a law professor who also blogs about Iowa City schools.
My friend Sally Kuzemchak at Real Mom Nutrition recently shared her top 10
most - read posts from last year (it's a great list, by the way - check it out), and that had me wondering: what
Lunch Tray posts were you reading
most often in 2015?
All three women agree that in time,
most kids will be on board with what's on their
lunch trays.
But when kids are truly going without food at home, or where food is scarce and not regularly available, I think
most of us would agree that what's on the current
lunch trays is far better than nothing.
Lunch Tray readers already know my feelings about
most restaurants» children's menus: while they do offer parents convenience and lower prices, the menu items themselves are usually fat - laden and depressingly unimaginative, inadvertently teaching children that «their» food consist of only a handful of unhealthful entrees — mac - n - cheese, hot dogs, chicken nuggets and the rest.
This recent
Lunch Tray post contains several very easy steps you can take to show your support for healthier school meals, and
most of them don't take more than a few seconds.