Sentences with phrase «on cafeteria lunch»

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They also believe that when employees have access to on - site cafeterias, child care centers, gyms and concierge services, they become more productive because they don't have to leave the office to grab lunch or spend time driving to the gym or dropping off children at a daycare across town.

On the days mom was tied up with her from - home baking business, lunch dates with her sisters, or marathon training, I would end up with a hot lunch and sit there longing for my PB no - J and pick around the questionable foods that filled my plastic cafeteria tray.

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).

Players had to sit together in the cafeteria and nosh on affirmations with their lunches.

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.

The cafeteria can be overwhelming for many kids: the lights, the noises, the rush, rush, rush to eat... Having one easy - open container saves time so kids can focus on eating a nutritious lunch and socialize with friends.

«And since students like it, they would stay on campus more for lunch and the school cafeterias would make more money.

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.»

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.

Mom should eat lunch in the cafeteria on a regular basis and bring a friend to help build momentum.

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.

Oh, and here are a few more items this district includes on its lunch menu, just to lure more students into the cafeteria:

And in France, children can not bring their packed lunches into the cafeteria so if you eat in school you must eat what is on the menu or go hungry.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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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.

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.

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As for the father's comment on the first article, coming from the cafeteria manager at a lower income Catholic school, I WELCOME those free lunch families!

Evaluation of farm - to - school implementation might address whether locally grown foods were delivered to schools and served in cafeterias as intended; cafeteria staff, parent, and student response (ie, acceptability); and the effects on the cost of school lunches (ie, affordability).

Yesterday, many media outlets reported on a bill introduced in Congress which, if enacted, would allegedly ban «lunch shaming,» i.e., practices in the cafeteria that single out children with meal debt.

I've had cafeteria workers forbid me from taking pictures of food on the lunch line itself, with no explanation, and have had school officials watch me like a hawk as I took pictures of the food on children's trays.

On a pistachio - green plastic lunch tray in the cafeteria of Sam Hughes Elementary School, Tucson, Arizona, circa 1970 - 76.

Ann Cooper, nutrition expert who revamps school cafeterias around the country and coauthor of Lunch Lessons: We recognize that some children don't like food groups to touch, so we serve meals on three - compartment plates.

Students can participate in poster designs, which will then be used to decorate the cafeteria; recipe contests, where the winner's recipe will be included on the regular school menu; parents and guests will join students to eat or serve lunch, including local celebrities, firefighters and other community members.

Cafeterias sell competitive foods not because SNA members are out to ruin kids» health with snacks of questionable value, but because a $ 3 per free lunch payment from the government is not, in many cases, enough to cover the costs of putting that meal on the table, and more revenue has to come from somewhere.

I support the USDA's decision to remove the limits on grains and meat, in part because those limits made it impossible for cafeterias to offer a daily sandwich as an easy, healthy option for students who didn't like the hot lunch.

Help to ensure the food you pack for your children each day doesn't end up in the cafeteria trash by getting them involved in deciding on their own school lunch options.

In my first post on this blog I shared a rather shocking photo of one child's recent «lunch» in an HISD cafeteria: bright red, baked Flaming Hot Cheetos doused with nacho cheese sauce.

My feeling about milk in schools, as shared by many TLT readers (judging from this morning's discussion on the Facebook page and in comments on the blog), is that milk does have a place on lunch trays, but not to the exclusion of other beverages like water (which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get into cafeterias) and plant - based milks for those who drink them.

Are things going to settle down and kids start to eat what is on their lunch tray and leave the cafeteria full and satiated?

Germany, for instance, does not offer cafeteria food in all schools — most schools let students out in time to go home for lunch, on most days.

-LSB-...] Assuming your district is offering healthful foods on the lunch line, consider a gathering a group of parent volunteers to act as new food «boosters» in the cafeteria — handing out «I Tried It» stickers and praise for kids who taste new, healthful foods.

This year's theme is «I (Heart) School Breakfast,» and in CCSD cafeterias, students will enjoy a fruit parfait at breakfast on Tuesday featuring homemade granola and breakfast for lunch on Wednesday with waffles, sausage, potato wedges, strawberries and warm cinnamon peaches.

For one year, a teacher, Mrs. Q, will eat the same lunch that is offered to her students in the cafeteria, take pictures, and comment about it on the blog.

I can remember my first trip to the school cafeteria as a 1st grader in 1972 (small Catholic school in New York) and asking my parents that afternoon if I could get the school lunch from then on because they had ravioli that day.

Am no food nazi, but have been a teacher & a volunteer in the cafeteria long enough to see that carefully packed healthy lunches & even the minimally standard nutritive valued school lunch tray offerings are both NEGATED by kids «choosing» to fill up on the empty calories in shiny packages.

The 2 lunch room monitors no longer work on our cafeteria.

Ann Cooper, nutrition expert who revamps school cafeterias around the country and coauthor of Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children: Our kids are not allowed to load up on just carbs.

But while government agencies usually focus their limited resources on unsanitary practices in the factories that produce food, inspection reports and site visits in Chicago underscore the perils lurking at the final stages of the school lunch: the kitchens where meals are heated and the cafeterias where they are served.

(Both schools we've been at have a full cafeteria... I do like going to pay for lunches in advance on Oriental Chicken day.

He was so proud to be the expert on school lunch and show me how everything worked in the cafeteria.

On the lower level of the Bullard Tavern sits a modern cafeteria for Village visitors, serving hot and cold lunches and snacks.

But when I got to the lunch room, my friend Cheryl (a dedicated monitor of what's going on in our cafeteria) said that the promised squash wasn't being served.

Looking at the lunches in the Toms River school district I can not help but wonder» would I let my kids eat what is served in the school cafeteria on a daily basis?»

And I go to have lunch with them often, so I see what goes on in the cafeteria.