Sentences with phrase «on cafeteria trays»

Schools need more fruits and vegetables on their cafeteria trays.

Pictures of green beans and carrots on cafeteria trays resulted in more kids eating more veggies.

The kitchen also makes money transporting grassfed meats from Shenandoah processors to local restaurants, and Curtin believes the less desirable cuts — such as beef chuck — could easily end up as burgers on cafeteria trays as part of a bartering arrangement with restaurateurs.

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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.

Students at Boston Public Schools are finding more prominent placement of meat - free dishes in their cafeterias on Mondays and are filling their trays with black bean burrito bowls, garden fresh salads topped with chickpeas, protein - packed chili, and more.

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.

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.

Believe me when I tell you, many eyes were wide with interest when I told them that these same veggies were lurking in the cafeteria waiting to be put on a tray, eaten, and fuel a brain.

As she stirs a steaming tray of mashed potatoes, Juarez Community Academy cafeteria manager Emma Leachman keeps a watchful eye on her staff of 13 and an open heart to the young people whose hugs and frank complaints measure the value of her work.

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.»

Yesterday, I did not get into the cafeteria, but I did make it into the Teacher's Lounge to hear one of our teachers talking about how GREAT the BOK CHOY on her tray was... sorry I did not get a picture.

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.

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.

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?

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.

I haven't yet researched it, but my sense is that this waste is only growing in quantity as school districts move from what many of us remember from childhood — on site cafeteria cooking with reusable trays and real silverware — to food prepared off - site and packaged for reheating.

Whether they can help shift eating norms across the country remains to be seen, but regardless millions of American kids will likely now get their healthiest meals of the day on a tray in their school cafeterias.

Ill admit that when I was a kid I used to love riding down snowy hills outside my junior high school on plastic lunch trays stolen from the cafeteria, but those days are long gone.

Terry turned on her heel and walked away, and the cafeteria fell silent except for the clatter of trays and silverware in the kitchen.

While fellow artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning created high drama with drips and bravura brushwork on billboard - size canvases, Mr. Seliger conjured up his own private worlds on canvases, and later Masonite boards, that rarely exceeded the dimensions of a cafeteria tray.

They work on assembly lines, adding food, napkins, cutlery and other items to trays in airline kitchens, cafeterias, hospitals, and similar establishments.

EXPERIENCE Feb 2011 — Present Mercy Memorial Hospital — Monroe, MI Food Services Dietary Clerk • Prepare cold food items for patients compliant with established procedures • Maintain a scheduled stock level of diet • Tallied cold food items, assembled and garnished trays for patients, unit staff and cafeteria customers • Rotated labels and date of fresh foods to maintain freshness of products • Serve food on tray assembly line • Set up and clean salad bar and dessert area of cafeteria line

Work on assembly lines and adding cutlery napkins food and other items to trays in hospitals, cafeteria airline kitchens, and similar establishments.