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(CNN)-- Dana Woldow issues a challenge to every member of Congress: «Try school cafeteria food in your district.

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It's all happening — what next — prayer times set aside for Muslim students during school, wash basins like at University of Minnesota so they don't try to wash their feet before praying in the school basins for washing hands, demands for special cafeteria food, demands that girls cover their heads, then faces, then disappear from school altogether, wake up New York and hold on to our great city before they knock down the rest of the buildings!

Since becoming the food service director for Ellensburg School District three years ago Garmong has been working to make big changes to the food served in his cafeterias.

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.

I am not, as you claim, absolving everyone else from all responsibility (my appearance on the hate list of so many local school admins is testament to my history of holding people here responsible), but the PRIMARY responsibility for the mess this country is in when it comes to food, nutrition, obesity and health, has very little to do with what goes on in school cafeterias.

provides effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.

As the Chicago case shows, the obstacles to putting healthy foods in school cafeterias are many: the high cost of organic meals, long - standing contracts for frozen and pre-packaged food and labor union issues.

The food sold in my school cafeteria is so unhealthy.

Editorial: Healthier NJ school lunch menus provide nutrition instruction in cafeteria (NJ.com, September 10, 2012): Healthier school food isn't just about healthier for its own sake, but to help keep kids learning, even at lunch.

«Fried Food In School Cafeterias: «It's About Freedom and Liberty,» Says Ag Commissioner» (Austin, TX NPR) April 20, 2015 broadcast

We use a colorful labeling system to shows students how the food served in their school cafeteria nourishes their brain, bones, muscles and circulatory and digestive systems.

Today on my Houston ISD school food blog, The Spork Report, I describe two potentially encouraging developments which could presage the end of junk food in our cafeterias: the recent, courageous action of two of our school board trustees in objecting to the sale of these foods, as well as a fantastic Houston Chronicle editorial today in which the paper urges HISD to clean up its act.

They call for boycotting the cafeteria, or bringing in food trucks to sell to students out in front of the school in competition with the cafeterias, or even demanding that local restaurants be allowed in to provide catering directly from the cafeteria kitchen.

So, bottom line: if you're alarmed by food waste in your cafeteria and are being told by your district that you can't legally donate school food, push back.

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.

This provides support for local farmers while putting local foods right in the cafeteria of school children who then try locally grown healthy foods.

In the context of school cafeterias, Dr. Wansink has found that simple cafeteria fixes — having nothing to do with changing the food itself — can measurably improve the choices students make in selecting fooIn the context of school cafeterias, Dr. Wansink has found that simple cafeteria fixes — having nothing to do with changing the food itself — can measurably improve the choices students make in selecting fooin selecting food.

The book opens with a pointed but often humorous discussion of the food found in many of America's school cafeterias, prompting readers to ask themselves questions like, «Is the chicken masquerading as a dinosaur?

Lunch Money is Adamick's effort to dispel «the myth that school food reform is cost prohibitive» by providing «effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.»

Michael Pollan recently shared an interesting post from the Environmental Working Group («Healthy School Food: Pay Now, Save Later») which advocates a redistribution of farm subsidies to support more fruits and vegetables in school cafetSchool Food: Pay Now, Save Later») which advocates a redistribution of farm subsidies to support more fruits and vegetables in school cafetschool cafeterias.

Jessica Ortega, a senior at the Little Village school, said she thinks the district should incorporate organic foods, «and if that's not possible, our food should actually be cooked in the cafeterias rather than being brought in by trucks and having the lunch ladies just heat it up.»

When every eligible student is enrolled in their free school meal program, and more students are eating breakfast and lunch, all students have access to the healthy, fresh, local food that farm to school makes available in the cafeteria and classroom.

The district in collaboration with Captain Planet Foundation, Sodexo, and Mirror Image Mentoring introduced the new District Grown Gardens initiative to bring food grown in school gardens to the cafeteria line.

Competitive foods: Food sold outside the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program, such as individual items or less nutritious meals served in the cafeteria or individual items in vending machines

When precise nutritional or allergen information is important to you due to a diet restriction, an allergy, or a medical condition, the information in this web application isn't a substitute for discussing your situation with your school food service director and following their guidance as well as reading any labels, ingredient lists and warnings provided in the cafeteria.

* Many of us in the school food reform world have long predicted that elementary school kids would be the first to come around to healthier school food because they haven't had years of seeing junk food in their cafeterias.

That said, I think it's deeply ingrained in our students that school cafeteria food is awful regardless of how tasty the offerings.

Students identified locally grown foods easily in the cafeteria with clear signage, labeling of locally grown foods as «LG» on the menu, and «Eat Healthy, Eat Local, Eat at Carrollton City Schools» packaging.

These included foods sold in cafeteria a la carte lines, vending machines, and school stores, with the majority of the revenue generated by a la carte cafeteria sales.

More and more school districts — especially in poor areas — are turning to private contractors to plan menus, order food and oversee kitchens and cafeterias.

Bartow County School Nutrition used a variety of methods to promote locally grown foods being served in their cafeterias.

One portion of the legislation would give the Department of Agriculture authority to update decades - old standards for the food children buy at school stores and in vending machines, as well as foods such as pizza and french fries that are sold a la carte in cafeterias.

Kathy Alexander, Food Service Director of the Addison Northeast Food Service Cooperative (ANFSC), has seven salad bars in her school district — one in every cafeteria.

There's even a prime - time network reality show (Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution) that takes place in school cafeterias and has stars bickering about chicken nuggets and federally mandated grain servings.

In Northern Michigan Kids news, schools across northwest Michigan have been serving up local food experiences in cafeterias, classrooms, and school gardens, and we'll be sharing some of those stories each montIn Northern Michigan Kids news, schools across northwest Michigan have been serving up local food experiences in cafeterias, classrooms, and school gardens, and we'll be sharing some of those stories each montin cafeterias, classrooms, and school gardens, and we'll be sharing some of those stories each month.

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.

In addition to supervising twenty - six school cafeterias, she teaches a sanitation foundations class where other SN professionals learn about cross-contamination, food temperatures, and all of the other ins - and - outs of working in a school kitcheIn addition to supervising twenty - six school cafeterias, she teaches a sanitation foundations class where other SN professionals learn about cross-contamination, food temperatures, and all of the other ins - and - outs of working in a school kitchein a school kitchen.

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In an effort to attract more students to try school meals and welcome them in district cafeterias, food service professionals have been creating exciting food arIn an effort to attract more students to try school meals and welcome them in district cafeterias, food service professionals have been creating exciting food arin district cafeterias, food service professionals have been creating exciting food art.

Yes, if your child learns good food habits at home, they are more likely to choose the healthier options in the school cafeteria.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

Just to bring everyone up to speed, «competitive» food and beverages are those offered in competition with the federally subsidized school meal, and are sold via vending machines, school stores, fundraisers, snack bars operated by the school cafeteria and other outlets.

Many school cafeterias have students on work / study working in the cafeteria and this can make training about food allergies and EpiPens more difficult.

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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.

We have a window in our school cafeteria that is filled with junk food for sale.

When she came on as the food service director the two schools in this small rural community were losing $ 27,000 a year in their cafeterias.

She brought in an amazing menu of delicious food that sound like they came from an upscale bistro, not a school cafeteria.