Sentences with phrase «public school cafeteria food»

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Assembly Bill 97 of 25 July 2008 amends California's Health and Safety Code to require all food facilities (restaurants) in the state, with the exception of public school cafeterias, to cease using artificial trans fats by January 2011.

I was a very overweight child and while we did have foods offered in a cafeteria in my high school, we never had any school offered food in my public elementary and middle schools here in the Bay Area.

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.»

If your children attend public school anywhere in the country, chances are there are food items sold in the cafeteria that you could never have imagined appearing there when you were a child.

To recap, the reader's child has just entered public school and she's dismayed by the cafeteria food, the snacks in the kindergarten classroom (Rice Krispie Treats and Cheetos), and the fact that her son is receiving Dum - Dums as rewards from the gym teacher.

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.

With the closing of USDA's period for public comment on the new proposed competitive food rules, we've had a lot of discussion here about the food and beverages offered to school kids via vending machines, school stores, and cafeteria snack bar or «a... [Continue reading]

Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday.

Investigators think most of the victims ate tainted cafeteria food at 53 public schools in Sakai, about 265 miles southwest of Tokyo.

The basic tenets of good nutrition are sneaking their way into the public consciousness, especially in school cafeterias, where concern is mounting about the typical fare of high - fat, deep - fried foods frequently served for lunch.

Vowing to reform the way food is handled in public school cafeterias and at plants that manufacture the food, Duncan announced plans to require all principals to keep their kitchen workers certified and their workspace clean.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

That piqued my curiosity, so for those of you with children currently in public school in grades K - 12, I'd be so grateful if you'd share more details via this second survey, which focuses exclusively on your children's school food environment: the food offered in the cafeteria, classrooms and campus fundraisers.

While Schakowsky's bill was welcomed by school cafeteria managers and food - safety advocates, industry officials said the dissemination of safety records could stoke unnecessary public fears and prove difficult for cafeteria managers to interpret.

And school food directors are most certainly aware of the current public outcry over practices that single out kids in the cafeteria.

A cafeteria contractor has delivered spoiled foods to several D.C. public schools, failed to properly train its staff and distributed some meals without milk and fruit, school officials say.

Public school students buy their lunch at school cafeterias or food stalls on the nearby streets.

Volunteers deliver hands - on nutrition education, build and tend school gardens, and bring high - quality local food into public school cafeterias.

A 2015 study by American Bird Conservancy and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has found bird - and bee - killing insecticides in nearly every food eaten by the nation's Senators, Representatives, and others who dine in the cafeterias of the United States Congress.