Anyone who has ever been in an American
school cafeteria knows one thing: It's not all about the food.
School cafeterias no longer have kitchens.
Summary: It's easy to be
a school cafeteria know - it - all.
Not exact matches
I
know, scalloped potatoes don't really sound very good... kind of like grade
school cafeteria food.
I was given this recipe by my aunt who worked in the
school cafeteria and
knew this wonderful women.
No doubt it's being widely served in
school cafeterias across the nation daily.
Removing chocolate milk from
school cafeterias may reduce calorie and sugar consumption, but it may also lead students to take less milk overall, drink less (waste more) of the white milk they do take, and
no longer purchase
school lunch.
Want to
know what French kids eat in the
school cafeteria?
Geneva County
Schools» (AL) child nutrition professionals
know that all too well — the healthy meals they serve have all the nutrition students need, but now they're providing eye appeal in the
cafeteria too!
I get it that JO has brought more attention to the
school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the
cafeteria ladies, the local
schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces
schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed
no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing
schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.
The National
School Lunch Program allows schools to provide breakfast, but it's long been known that when breakfast is served in the cafeteria, economically disadvantaged students often don't eat it, either out of fear of stigma or because they have no time to get to the cafeteria before school s
School Lunch Program allows
schools to provide breakfast, but it's long been
known that when breakfast is served in the
cafeteria, economically disadvantaged students often don't eat it, either out of fear of stigma or because they have no time to get to the
cafeteria before
school s
school starts.
SFUSD has loads of
school gardens, but as I am sure you
know, these serve better as instructional tools than as sources for fresh produce in the
cafeterias.
During the
school year that ended Friday, about 84 percent of Chicago public
school students received free or reduced - price breakfasts and lunches, meaning that with summer's arrival, nearly 342,000 children are
no longer receiving the meals each day in their
school cafeterias.
Officials with the Milk Processor Education Program, a trade group for the dairy industry, said they did not
know how many
school districts pulled flavored milk from their
cafeterias.
While impoverished families and those inside the
school food world have
known about lunch shaming for decades, the intense viral reaction to those two Times stories made clear that most Americans had no idea that kids with meal debt are stigmatized every day in
school cafeterias around the country.
As a feeding therapist who works with children who have difficulty eating in various environments, I often visit kids in their
school cafeterias — otherwise
known as the
school CAFÉ - FEARIA, according to one 7 year old client of mine.
Advocates say high
school kids who can't afford a
cafeteria lunch will often skip the free lunch too — because they don't want their classmates to
know they're low - income.
Wan na
know what they're eating in
school cafeterias in Estonia, Finland or Dijbouti?
The few high
schools I
knew that had
cafeterias were a part of the home ec program where students prepared food during a previous class right before lunch, and it was usually fresh healthy items.
I don't
know if disappointment would be how they feel when they receive their first meal from the
school cafeteria.
I personally
know two people who work in two different
school cafeterias.
I
know that we can do better in the
school cafeteria.
How can they best navigate the
school cafeteria and what else do they need to
know to keep their bodies at peak performance?
If you follow
School Nutrition Foundation on Facebook you
know that we have partnered with the Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) on the
School Cafeteria Discards Assessment Project (SCrAP), to quantify food and related waste generated in K - 12
cafeterias.
I
know there must be many teachers who want to speak out against what is going on in their
school cafeterias, but are afraid (exactly why Mrs. Q. intelligently remains anonymous).
If you've ever stood in the
cafeteria line at a
school, you will
know that not very many children choose white milk over chocolate or strawberry — both of which have more sugar per fluid ounce than soda.
FoodCorps is best
known for our deployment of 225 full - time AmeriCorps service members to 350
schools in 17 states and Washington, D.C. FoodCorps AmeriCorps service members deliver hands - on cooking and gardening lessons to students, steer students toward healthier options in the
cafeteria, and bring teachers, parents, administrators and food service teams together to promote healthy food throughout
schools (we call this a «schoolwide culture of health»).
CAF started with The Lunch Box, but I kept seeing additional opportunities to support
schools, and there's so much work left to do, but really we're in such a different place than when I started — over 4,000 salad bars in
schools, and fresh fruits and vegetables are
no longer totally rare in the
cafeteria.
«Parents of students who depend on their
school cafeterias for breakfast and lunch deserve to
know the conditions of the facilities where their food is prepared.
The fact that parents can now see the conditions of their child's
cafeteria will allow parents to
know that when their children are at
school they are not being exposed to unsanitary conditions,» said Senator Tony Avella (D - Queens).
This report shows that many of the
cafeterias in our city
schools have racked up numerous health code violations, and that parents have no way of
knowing about these violations.
I love the story — the
cafeteria ladies not
knowing what they're serving, the Dad visiting the
cafeteria and bringing your lunch is actually still safer than eating a
school lunch!
As many administrators
know, the
school cafeteria isn't always a place to love or be loved.
Did you
know that
school bus drivers and
cafeteria workers file unemployment claims whenever
schools take a vacation break?
A freshman team is working with Pace campus organizations to increase awareness of the concentrated animal feeding operations, also
known as CAFOs, that supply much of the poultry and meat in
school cafeterias (not to mention America's supermarkets and restaurants):
After saving $ 50,000 by reducing waste through recycling programs, Portland
schools superintendent James Morse has announced that area
schools will
no longer be using single use styrofoam trays in district
cafeterias, and will be transitioning to reusable trays instead.
«And right there I
knew, because I've been at the
school for many years, I
knew right when I heard the
cafeteria alarm, you
know when you get the hairs on the back of your neck going up, I said, «That never goes off,»» he said.
Knowing fully well that once you have met with me, you too will agree that I am the best choice for a
Cafeteria Cashier at Moses Lake High
School, I will contact you soon for a personal meeting.