Sentences with phrase «school food reform efforts»

Had the kids staged a full - fledged revolt against the new food and beverage rules, there was a good chance that our school food reform efforts would have been derailed early on.

But through my research and writing on the topic, and through my active participation in local school food reform efforts here in Houston, I've come to believe no proposed «solution» to the crisis will get us anywhere at all — unless kids themselves become invested in change.

But of course I recognize that many people who don't share my political views might still support the current school food reform efforts, and I agree that I didn't acknowledge that at all in this post.

But my approach on this blog (and in my own school food reform efforts here in Houston) is to be more pragmatic.

Not exact matches

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.»

If Republicans, many of whom are allied with SNA in this effort, win control of the Senate this fall, we may well see decades of work on school food reform go up in smoke.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

But it would be highly irresponsible of me, as a provider of information regarding school food reform to my readership, to not point out that Chef Ann's remarkable efforts (which you've chronicled so well, btw) require funding.

School food reform advocates, myself included, are deeply worried about these developments and we've begun to ratchet up our response to SNA's efforts on social media.

Over the weekend, the Obama Foodorama blog reported on a «Team Obama Food Police» video attacking First Lady Michelle Obama and her school food reform and anti-obesity effoFood Police» video attacking First Lady Michelle Obama and her school food reform and anti-obesity effofood reform and anti-obesity efforts.

The inertia is large, however, and beyond the habits of existing school - lunch systems is the classic problem of any school - based effort to reform the larger society — junk food that can not be obtained in school can be brought from home or purchased nearby.

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