Sentences with phrase «of cafeteria lunches»

I worked as a school teacher and wasn't a big fan of cafeteria lunches, so my options were packing or purchasing.

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The billionaire still eats lunch with his employees in the company cafeteria, and though he's the richest person in the fashion industry, he sticks to a simple uniform of a white shirt and blue blazer.

Order a glass of wine over lunch with a colleague or crack open a beer in the cafeteria today and get ready for a few puzzled stares.

After a quick lunch in the school cafeteria, I would head over to the library for thirty minutes before class to pore over the school library's set of Great Books of the Western World.

I was one of two Muslims in my school and every day when the rest of the kids in my class went to the cafeteria for lunch, we would head to the computer lab to play Oregon Trail or Where in the World is Carmen San Diego for an hour.

My diet degraded to the point of cereal for breakfast, some weird processed veggie cafeteria food or frozen Trader Joes food for lunch, and then pasta or pasta or pasta for dinner.

We were all eating lunch in the cafeteria at Loudoun County High School in Leesburg, Virginia, and the new kid from Texas pulled a bottle out of his lunch box.

Just when we thought tater tots were nothing more then the ghosts of school lunches past, Pig & Pickle in Scottsdale, Arizona, revitalizes the cafeteria mainstay.

Compare this lunch to a couple of my family members, who usually shell out up to $ 5 a day (or more) on cafeteria food or on processed, nitrate laden meat, whole wheat bread and cheese (which goes to about $ 10 a week).

I started by adding a few pieces of grilled chicken or deli turkey from the school cafeteria to my lunch.

A hefty part of my income goes to dining out, buying something overpriced at the cafeteria when I forget my lunch, and grocery shopping.

It made a lot of sense for me to bring my own lunch to work — there wasn't really a convenient place for me to eat out, even if I'd wanted to and the food the university cafeteria where I worked was not great.

Meal 3: Lunch from the cafeteria was a salad piled high with veggies, drizzled with balsamic vinegar, and topped with a little bit of hummus and crackers.

These are perfect for school lunches — make - your - own fruit pizzas will be the hit of the cafeteria!

I made a weekend's worth of food for my daughter's juvenile arthritis camp / conference in June and was able to use the Easy Lunch Box containers to take food with us to the camp cafeteria so my daughter could eat with her friends instead of in the dorm room (where the attendees all stay).

So if a student reaches the end of the cafeteria line with, say, a meat patty and broccoli, the lunch worker is likely to suggest adding a milk to complete the meal.

So now, when she buys lunch, she's forgoing the benefits of the 1 % milk altogether and opting for water or juice because she can't stand the watered down version of milk that is offered by the cafeteria.

Packing a yummy lunch fast makes me as happy as... my kids at lunchtime when they get to eat their favorite healthy foods instead of the gross cafeteria offerings!

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.

If your child eats particularly well at their school cafeteria, if the school lunch menu is particularly good or bad... comment or contact me, would love to publish some of these «outside» the norm stories.

This fall, when youngsters line up in the cafeterias of Chicago Heights Elementary School District 170, they will be served leaner, more nutritious meals because of new federal guidelines regulating school lunches.

Of her own memories of cafeteria food at public school, she said: «I only got pizza on hot lunch days, and even that was barely edible.&raquOf her own memories of cafeteria food at public school, she said: «I only got pizza on hot lunch days, and even that was barely edible.&raquof cafeteria food at public school, she said: «I only got pizza on hot lunch days, and even that was barely edible.»

I thought about this when I was helping in the school cafeteria yesterday; the first half of kids through the lunch line had their oranges cut into quarters and almost everyone ate them; towards the second half of lunch the oranges were whole and the kids had to be coaxed to eat them.

In early April, I had a news story in the New York Times about the passage of a groundbreaking law in New Mexico that bans «lunch shaming» - practices in the cafeteria that single out kids with meal debt, such as being given a cold sandwich instead... [Continue reading]

Over a period of weeks or months, I'd be willing to bet, consistently having those fruits and veggies and white milk, etc. show up on kids» lunch trays — by their own choosing, sneakily or not — would likely lead to more consumption of those items as familiarity set in and kids, hungry for their lunches, realized that eating the orange and the salad might be better than leaving the cafeteria only half - full.

One specific target of the parents» ire was a cafeteria meal called «Brunch for Lunch.»

Two of the best solutions to reducing food waste in cafeterias work for #RealSchoolFood and lunches brought from home: Recess Before Lunch and Longer Lunch Periods

Removing chocolate milk from school cafeterias may reduce calorie and sugar consumption, but it may also lead students to take less milk overall, drink less (waste more) of the white milk they do take, and no longer purchase school lunch.

That was certainly the case in Berkeley, Calif., and in Boulder, Co., two districts where I have spent considerable time in the kitchens and the cafeterias, and where parents rallied around the idea that children deserve better than processed convenience foods and tons of sugar for breakfast and lunch.

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.

Sodexho and Compass officials said they ensure the sanitation of school kitchens and cafeterias by periodically walking through lunch lines and checking the temperature and quality of food, as well as by instructing cooks on safe food handling techniques.

You can seat students in the cafeteria for a nutritionally balanced school lunch, but if the food doesn't taste good, a lot of it will end up in the garbage.

And in her article «Lunch Wars: A call for healthier kids» meals in the cafeteria» on Babble.com, Amy Kalafa describes how she earned the title of «granolahead» for favoring carrots over cupcakes.

When fourth - graders came to the cafeteria, one of the first students to get hot lunch plopped his tray down on the table and excitedly told his tablemates, «The lunch is going to be good today.»

The district cited students» privacy as the reason, even though I said I would allow them to vet all the photos to make sure no students were in them, and asked to take pictures of lunches before students were in the cafeteria.

The National School Lunch Program allows schools to provide breakfast, but it's long been known that when breakfast is served in the cafeteria, economically disadvantaged students often don't eat it, either out of fear of stigma or because they have no time to get to the cafeteria before school starts.

Many of you have already seen on TLT's Facebook page today's New York Times blog account of a New York City fourth - grader named Zachary who secretly filmed the lunches at his public school cafeteria, often revealing a startling disparity between the school menu's glowing description of the meal and the dismal food actually served.

In the last two weeks, both this blog and the national media have featured a rash of stories about children having their lunches taken away by cafeteria employees due to unpaid lunch balances, and I also told you about a generous Houston school tutor / mentor who recently paid $ 465 of his own money to clear the debt of over 60 students.

The combined effect of the lost revenue from selling treats along with declining sales of the regular lunches has created financial challenges for some school cafeterias.

These days, my preteen daughter would die of mortification if I dared show up in her middle school cafeteria, but my son told me yesterday I'm still «allowed» to stop by his elementary lunch room.

Second, children have no clue that the branded foods being served in the cafeteria are somehow «better» than the standard formulation of those foods, so they continue to receive the implicit message that items like Baked Flamin» Hot Cheetos (whole - grain rich or otherwise) and Domino's pizza (ditto) are acceptable, daily lunch fare.

I've also been surprised as I do my «Notes from the Field» features to see how often dessert is served as part of the school lunch in my kids» cafeteria.

Both of those options relieve pressure on the cafeteria, but they also have the perverse effect of forcing the cafeteria to then compete with junk food outlets to retain student participation in the lunch program.

if school administrators weren't too busy to plan and would approve parent volunteer lunch monitors then parents could fill some of the lunch room void by left by over-extended cafeteria staff and teachers, explaining to kids what lunch options were and encouraging the healthier choices as well as providing more prompts in the cafeteria as students have their tray.

The kids should make better choices (and have a better provided cafeteria lunch) but most of the time it's the parents who are basically deciding the quality of their food.

As I reported in two stories in the New York Times this spring, lunch shaming is the practice of singling out children in the cafeteria over school meal debt by offering them alternate cold meals such as a cheese sandwich, marking them with a wrist band or hand stamp, or, in rare cases, requiring them to do chores in exchange for a meal.

Chef Ann was hired to supervise the project (and has since left to make the same improvements in Boulder, CO.) The comprehensive, integrated program includes cooking and gardening classes, cafeteria lunches that are scratch - made and free of processed food, and nicer dining facilities.

During the school year that ended Friday, about 84 percent of Chicago public school students received free or reduced - price breakfasts and lunches, meaning that with summer's arrival, nearly 342,000 children are no longer receiving the meals each day in their school cafeterias.

I don't know the answer, but I do know that most lunch - packing parents would happily forego that daily chore in favor of handing their child a meal card — if only they liked what they saw in the cafeteria.

Well, I've been roundly criticized by Lunch Tray readers today for accepting so easily my district's explanation on why we use a flimsy spork instead of plastic forks and knives in our cafeterias.