Sentences with phrase «school food professionals»

I especially welcome the input of school food professionals, who may always comment here anonymously.

I love working with committed school food professionals who take a stand on important matters like this one.

-LSB-...] states did lobby for the changes, so did school food professionals around the country who claimed the caps were making menu planning unnecessarily complicated and restrictive.

And thanks also to the other school food professionals above who've taken the time to come here and leave their thoughts.

Everyone from school food professionals to concerned parents, from vegans to junk food lovers, have come by over the years to share their thoughts.

If you've read my blog for any length of time, you must know I only have the highest respect for school food professionals.

And while I sat through the various presentations, I reflected on how much my feelings about school food professionals have changed since I walked into my first PAC meeting in 2010.

It's a really informative show geared toward school food professionals and anyone else who wants to learn about the latest school food issues.

(For newcomers to The Lunch Tray, Wilma is an anonymous school food professional somewhere in the United States who contacts me from time to time with her views about school food from «behind the line.»)

But I like to think I've reached a point in my advocacy and writing career where I can rely on school food professionals around the country, not just those in HISD, to help me fill in those blanks.

But as a concerned Houston citizen and former HISD parent, one who served for six years on its Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, let me offer this personal pitch to any ambitious, dedicated and progressive school food professional out there reading this post:

For many years now, I've sat in school food conferences and listened to (or heard about) people like Ann Cooper of the Boulder Valley School District, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the better.

School lunches: Balancing nutrition with what kids like (Gainesville Times; November 20, 2011): This balanced article explores the realities of school foodservice, and the impact health and restaurant trends have on how school food professionals develop menus, balancing what kids like with nutrition requirements.

Last week I introduced to TLT readers an anonymous school food professional named «Wilma» who let me share a frank email regarding the difficulties she faces in trying improve school food.

I've been following with interest a conversation on this blog's Facebook page among school food professionals discussing how they handle unpaid meal balances.

Back in May, I wrote a post («School Food Professionals vs. Kids: How Did It Come to This?)

See my post, «School Food Professionals Versus Kids: How Did It Come to This?»

Parents, students, and school food professionals also have reason to celebrate in October, because October is now Farm to School Month!

But on the larger question of local control... You say:» If you believe that school food professionals at the district level a) know what they're doing and b) have the kids wellness at heart, then why do they need to be micromanaged through regulation?»

Early on I published a similar post from another person «behind the lunch line,» TLT's anonymous school food professional whom I refer to as «Wilma.»

Because I am now so self - educated on food, nutrition, etc. as a middle aged school food professional, I know instant breakfast is powdered lactose with extra sugar and a sprinkling of vitamins.

The fact that not only parents but school food professionals regularly read and comment on The Lunch Tray is one of my proudest blogging achievements.

In fact, when I spoke to Rivas yesterday she was in Washington, D.C. as an invited guest of the First Lady for her Summer Harvest in the White House Kitchen Garden, one of just three school food professionals invited by the White House to the event.

Ironically enough, in an «urgent message» SNA sent to its 55,000 members this week to discourage them from signing an open letter supporting healthier meal standards, the organization reassured school food professionals that it welcomes their «thoughts and concerns.»

Yesterday, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) concluded its three - day Legislative Action Conference, for which over 900 school food professionals travelled to Washington, D.C. to lobby for the goals set out in the organization's 2017 position paper.

(E.g., Wilma, TLT's resident school food professional, has provided a guest post in the past.)

While Bettina and I are not SNA members, we are long - time, vocal advocates of healthier school food, and have gotten to know like - minded school food professionals around the nation.

As soon as I posted the Cheetos - and - nacho - sauce photo three weeks ago, I feared I'd dealt an unfair blow to the many well - meaning, talented and committed school food professionals working in our district.

-LSB-...] Why school food professionals are trying to turn back changes made under the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act.

But how did this debate devolve into an either / or proposition in which school food professionals are pitted against the very children they serve with such dedication?

But now school food professionals, under their umbrella organization, the School Nutrition Association, are leading the charge against many of the hard - won school food improvements of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

But in the intervening four years, in which I educated myself about the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), started this blog, continued to work closely with my district, and also met school food professionals around the country, I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food program.

I have much sympathy for what school food professionals are up against, financially and bureaucratically.

To the contrary, I think most school food professionals know how sympathetic I am to the myriad hurdles they face trying to feed kids well and that's one reason why they often come to my blog to comment, guest post and exchange views with each other.

Just in case that's true, I can assure you this is not a forum where school food professionals are bashed and blamed.

Beard and 14 other nationally known child nutrition experts, industry and government representatives and school food professionals rolled up their sleeves earlier this month at a roundtable in Oakbrook Terrace to define the problems facing school meals.

The show opens with Jamie attending a meeting of the California School Nutrition Association, the state organization of school food professionals.

That has led many school food professionals to complain they've been saddled with an unfunded mandate and it has incentivized them to cut breakfast -LSB-...]

Just to explain what I meant by a «visionary,» I named three legendary school food directors in the post: «Ann Cooper of the Boulder Valley School District, Bertrand Weber of Minneapolis Public Schools and Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools — all committed, caring school food professionals who've radically transformed their district's meals for the better.»

-LSB-...] I introduced to TLT readers an anonymous school food professional named «Wilma» who let me share a frank email regarding the difficulties she faces in trying improve school food.

She served as SNA president from 2009 - 10 and is recognized as a leader among school food professionals.

As I wrote in my 2015 post, «School Food Professionals vs. Kids: How Did It Come to This?»

I've also come to personally know and like many of the people now running HISD's Nutrition Services department, as well as many other school food professionals around the country.

In several posts written last year, I took the School Nutrition Association (SNA) to task for not asking Congress for more money to fund healthier school food, instead seeking only to roll - back school meal nutritional standards («School Food Professionals Versus Kids: How Did It Come to This?

As the healthier school food law nears its congressional reauthorization in the coming year, it's becoming critically important that school food professionals who support healthier school food be heard.