Sentences with phrase «school food advocates»

Unlike many school food advocates, however, I have never believed that to be the case, at least not for the rank - and - file membership.

These announcements are a tribute to the persistent work of school food advocates over a great many years.

This is a serious challenge for school food advocates, and we'll be talking more about it in the weeks and months ahead.

The more serious concern for school food advocates is....

San Francisco school food advocate Dana Woldow (who strongly supports the measure) had a nice back and forth with Lunch Tray readers in the comments that came out of the poll.

San Francisco school food advocate Dana Woldow informed me last night that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the ordinance that will limit toy giveaways in children's fast food meals containing high levels of calories, fat and sodium.

This is part of what I try to impart to school food advocates who contact me through the Better School Food website.

As we approach tomorrow's deadline for the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, CNN / Eatocracy has this interview with Dana Woldow, a parent and school food advocate in San Francisco.

Many big issues here, including, as school food advocate Dana Woldow discussed with me in an off line email, the real stigma likely created by giving nonpaying kids something different from everyone else.

-LSB-...] recently on one of the most passionate school food advocates Bettina Elias Siegel's blog, The Lunch Tray, speaks to this -LSB-...]

Yesterday I shared with you a Beyond Chron piece by school food advocate Dana Woldow («School Nutrition Association Pushes Fruitless Position»), in which Woldow criticized a recent position paper released by the School Nutrition Association («SNA»)... [Continue reading]

The SNA, inexplicably, chose the most aggressive, divisive course of action — lobbying sympathetic Congressional members to gut the school nutrition standards while ditching its former partnerships with school food advocates, the White House and the USDA.

You can read why I'm referred to as a «reluctant school food advocate,» my thoughts on school food reform in private versus public schools, and what I hope to accomplish here in Houston ISD before the youngest of my two children graduates.

Parents around the District, as well as national school food advocates and policymakers, celebrated these changes.

School food advocates said they like the extra attention these efforts bring to the issue of school food, but they worry it's not enough.

Longtime school food advocate Ann Cooper, the Director of School Food Services for the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado, believes pink slime will continue to be rampant in school ground beef next fall, in spite of the USDA's announcement.

This is just what school food advocates have been saying for years (see, for example, Janet Poppendieck's Free For All: Fixing School Food in America).

The SNA, which receives nearly half its income from companies that sell food products to schools, now finds itself in opposition to the military as well as to USDA and consumer school food advocates.

Some time ago, I «met» on Twitter a Finnish school food advocate named Maarit Laurinen.

A D.C. - area school food advocate asked parents to stop packing lunches to boost the district's school meal program, which makes total sense in principle.

But, to the surprise of many school food advocates, the organization also included a request that Congress increase meal reimbursements by 35 cents.

Note: Among the many things I love about San Francisco school food advocate Dana Woldow is how generous she is with her advice and, more importantly, how very practical and straightforward that advice always is.

With the help of school food advocate and White House chef, Sam Kass, the four lunch ladies had extra challenges that regular Chopped contestants do not face.

Last week I first learned of Dana Woldow, a parent and school food advocate in San Francisco, via an interview she did with CNN / Eatocracy.

Yesterday I shared with you a Beyond Chron piece by school food advocate Dana Woldow («School Nutrition Association Pushes Fruitless Position «-RRB-, in which Woldow criticized a recent position paper released by the School Nutrition Association («SNA») calling for various changes to the new school meal regulations.

School food advocate Dana Woldow and a reader named Victoria Chandler had an interesting back and forth over the proper role of government in regulating food marketing to children.

School food advocates would happily work with SNA to get more funding, TA and training, as well as work to implement real common - sense flexibility where the need is demonstrated.

-LSB-...] In addition, almost all school food advocates felt that the bill was grossly underfunded, providing only a six - cent - per - meal increase that was unlikely to significantly improve the food on kids» lunch trays.

I don't think there's a school food advocate out there who doesn't believe districts are sorely underfunded and under - equipped, the very obstacles which make compliance with the nutritional standards harder.

For those of you who don't know about Amy, she's one of the famous «Two Angry Moms» (the other is school food advocate and frequent TLT commenter Dr. Susan Rubin, now of Better School Food.)

It's also quite encouraging to me, as a school food advocate, to learn that SNA's troubling positions are not necessarily shared by the organization's members at large.

E.g., Dana Woldow, San Francisco school food advocate, described in a comment yesterday how her district improved school food, but then -LSB-...]

E.g., Dana Woldow, San Francisco school food advocate, described in a comment yesterday how her district improved school food, but then added:

In this piece she asks, «What Is a School Food Advocate?»

San Francisco school food advocate (and former TLT guest blogger) Dana Woldow alerted me to the fact that the city's Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on this proposal tomorrow.

Given conflicting data indicating that 90 % of districts are already meeting the standards successfully, many school food advocates have asked the obvious question: instead of weakening nutrition — a move that directly harms kids — why not put more effort into helping the small minority of districts that are struggling?

Put more bluntly, we're currently fighting in Congress just to preserve a whole - grain - rich standard and to keep a mere half - cup of fruits or vegetables on kids» lunch trays; whether those healthful foods are produced organically, conventionally or via GMO technology matters far less to me as a school food advocate than that they're actually served to the 31 million kids who rely on school meals for needed nutrition.

While that might sound innocuous, this waiver, which was strenuously opposed by the First Lady and school food advocates (including this one), is considered just the first salvo in a battle to -LSB-...]

The SNA's assertions regarding increased food waste have been echoed in anecdotal reports from school districts around the country, but school food advocates are urging Congress to stay the course and keep the new system in place.

School food advocates — myself included — who would love nothing better than to see re-heated chicken nuggets and tater tots replaced with fresh food cooked from scratch, need to wise up to the fact that most Americans just don't care.

I've been waiting for the weekend to write about the kids» story by Bettina Elias Siegel, the school food advocate who writes The Lunch Tray blog (and who put «pink slime» on the map).