Sentences with phrase «posts about school food»

This is the first in a series of blog posts about school food memories; food, and the act of eating, leave indelible memories for us and school food is no different.

E.g., I once posted about school food in France (which looked amazing from the report, no doubt because far more money is spent on it than it is here in the US), and I believe French kids do not bring lunch from home.

Last week I'd mentioned former Washington Post report / school food blogger Ed Bruske's somewhat pessimistic post about school food reform.

Not exact matches

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school... [Continue reading]

I hope I'm not exhausting you with posts about the new school meal regulations, but these rules impact the diets of millions of American children every day and seem worthy of in - depth discussion on any blog devoted to «kids and food.»

I wanted to share her concerns about the new regulations, concerns which in many ways echo those of Justin Gagnon, CEO of Choicelunch (a private school meal catering service), whose views I shared in an earlier post, and those of school food reformer Dana Woldow.

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.

I encourage you to read the post, but also take a look at the comments section, where an interesting conversation is taking place about the possible unintended consequences of shifting subsidies around, and also some practical input from me and fellow school food blogger Ed Bruske about the critical difference between serving produce in school cafeterias and getting kids to actually eat it.

Yesterday I wrote an impassioned post about efforts by House Republicans to gut the funding for several pieces of legislation that I personally value, including the new school food... [Continue reading]

A few weeks ago I posted twice (here and here) about a school food boycott at Milby, a high school serving a relatively underprivileged Hispanic population in east Houston.

In this article from The Huffington Post, author Chris Elam talks about the launch of our groundbreaking new website advocating for major reform in school food, The Lunch Box.

-LSB-...] HISD Food Services sent me another, minor correction to my initial post about forthcoming changes in Houston's school fFood Services sent me another, minor correction to my initial post about forthcoming changes in Houston's school foodfood.

This whole debacle reminds me of when Chipotle changed their bags to state their philosophy of «Food With Integrity» and focused on the pig, and Chipotle's FB page was inundated by high school and college kids who plastered its walls with endless postings about their so - called ethical treatment of their factory farmed pigs.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

As I've said often, including in my very first post on this blog, what school cafeterias implicitly teach our children about food and food choices is as important as the food itself.

-LSB-...] 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 -LSB-...]

This post (which originally ran January 11, 2011) was very popular with readers and generated in the comments section lots of long - buried memories about the school food of our childhoods.

Today he posts about one D.C. public elementary school which may have its food services taken over this fall by a group of D.C. chefs — along with a lot of parent volunteers.

Under the heading, «better late than never,» I wanted to post about a great show that's been featured on Martha Stewart Radio, hosted by New York chef, public school parent and school food activist, Bill Telepan.

In her guest blog post below she tells us about Cooking Up Change ®, an annual student school food cooking contest, the finals for... [Continue reading]

Just as when I write about school food reform, I welcome comments and guest posts from school food service workers sharing their unique perspective, it's been illuminating to hear from educators about this issue.

Today on Civil Eats I examine the School Nutrition Association «s hiring of «mom bloggers» to write sponsored posts about its recent annual conference — and school food geneSchool Nutrition Association «s hiring of «mom bloggers» to write sponsored posts about its recent annual conference — and school food geneschool food generally.

For more, check out this recent New York Times report on the potato controversy specifically, along with blog posts about it by Ed Bruske (Better D.C. School Food) and Chef Ann Cooper and Chef Beth Collins.

-LSB-...] I posted about House Republican efforts to cut funding for school food as well as other food - related federal -LSB-...]

I shared blog posts that: offered a plaintive farewell to Michelle Obama, a champion of child nutrition; expressed my deep fears about the fate of hungry kids under President Trump; told you how the current House Freedom Caucus wants to gut school food; introduced you to Trump's Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue; explained that Trump's Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, isn't ending the school lunch program (rumors to the contrary); and analyzed some recent rollbacks to the Obama school meal nutrition standards.

But that may be changing — if you didn't read about School Food FOCUS the first time around on TLT, be sure to check out this post which discusses how that group is helping to set up «regional food hubs» to improve efficiencies and lower the costs of local procuremFood FOCUS the first time around on TLT, be sure to check out this post which discusses how that group is helping to set up «regional food hubs» to improve efficiencies and lower the costs of local procuremfood hubs» to improve efficiencies and lower the costs of local procurement.

At any rate, after Ed's glass - half - empty post, which has been sort of echoing in my mind these past few days, and after a rather exhausting day yesterday of ranting about, and protesting for, school food reform, I feel thoroughly sick of the whole topic.

In this article from The Huffington Post, Chef Ann and Sunny Young write about how Boulder Valley School District celebrated Food Revolution Day every day in May.

Last Friday, Janet Poppendieck had a thought - provoking piece in the Washington Post entitled, «Five Myths About School Food,» in which she takes on five common misunderstandings about the school lunch program, namely About School Food,» in which she takes on five common misunderstandings about the school lunch program, namelySchool Food,» in which she takes on five common misunderstandings about the school lunch program, namely about the school lunch program, namelyschool lunch program, namely that:

Yesterday HISD Food Services sent me another, minor correction to my initial post about forthcoming changes in Houston's school fFood Services sent me another, minor correction to my initial post about forthcoming changes in Houston's school foodfood.

Today he posts about one D.C. public elementary school which may have its food services taken over this... [Continue reading]

And in my prior post about this development, I saw that a representative from ChoiceLunch, a private school food catering business, noted in a comment that with CPS in the picture, it might be easier to obtain antibiotic - and hormone - free meats from suppliers.

Yesterday I hastily posted about the USDA's proposed new regulations for school food, but because I was burdened with a lengthy To - Do list and a doctor's appointment that ran late, I don't think I did this topic justice.

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Blogging colleague Karen LeBillon continues to post regularly about school food in France and the menus never cease to amaze.

I briefly told you about the Get Food Education in Every School initiative when it was announced in May, but now you can read more about it in this week's Huffington Post editorial by Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (the folks behind Food day).

Remember back when I posted that sob - inducing video about school food in France?

Yesterday I wrote an impassioned post about efforts by House Republicans to gut the funding for several pieces of legislation that I personally value, including the new school food regulations, the new food safety law and the new voluntary guidelines for marketing junk food to children, along with funding for food assistance programs like WIC.

-LSB-...] I hastily posted about the USDA's proposed new regulations for school food, but because I was burdened with a -LSB-...]

When I first started writing about school food (literally, my very first post on TLT!)

-LSB-...] back when I posted that sob - inducing video about school food in France?

It's been my recent New Year's tradition to see which posts most interested you in the prior year, and in 2017, the topics were all pretty weighty: Trump's child nutrition policies, worries about school food, a science scandal, even a natural disaster.

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

You may recall from my earlier post about Hunger, Obesity, School Food and Social Media that I was getting my geek on with tech toys during the 2011 Legislative Action Conference.

«Mrs. Q's Fed Up blog (that became a book) had a premise: One picture, every day, showing how awful her school lunch was; she posted the picture, and talked about [the food].

I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the school - wide food culture (fundraisers, wellness programs, etc.); and Part Three talked about change at the district level.

In that post I expressed a little bit of ambivalence about selling sweets to raise money — ambivalence that would evolve over the next four years into outright activism against junk food in schools — but at the time I was clearly charmed by the old - timey, innocent feel of the event.

Ed Bruske (the blogger behind The Slow Cook and Better DC School Food) posts about it here.

[Ed Note: Earlier today I posted about a well - publicized school food «miracle» taking place at a school in Chicago.

We just couldn't pass up the chance to post about Michelle Malm, an amazing American Hero and a «force of nature» featured on The Early Show!Watch the video about Michelle, lunch lady (and Director of Food Services) of Kelseyville School District in California... Read more