Sentences with phrase «school food workers»

However, I know Slow Food USA was campaigning to change the Child Nutrition Act and provide more money and training for school food workers.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's largest organization of school food workers, has been leading the charge for school meal roll - backs and, so far, it seems to be getting a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill.

But most importantly, I think, reading Free for All instilled in me from day one a profound sense of empathy for school food professionals, empathy which has only increased as I've formed relationships within my own district's Nutrition Services department and virtual relationships via this blog with school food workers around the country.

In posting this, I mean no offense to the real life school food workers out there, who are often unsung heroes, trying their best to serve up appealing, healthful meals in a system that often seems to be working against them.

The SNA, which represents school food workers across the nation, has always been heavily funded and influenced by the very food industry giants who stand to lose money when healthier school nutrition standards are enacted.

And Oliver pulled no punches in expressing that disgust on camera, along with his frustration with the seemingly intransigent, ignorant school food workers who didn't share his vision.

But even as I'm forced to take sides in a fight which pits the needs of kids against the leading trade group for school food workers, I try to regularly remind everyone that those workers themselves are doing a valiant job under difficult circumstances.

Under pressure from the American School Food Service Association, which represents 65,000 school food workers, Congress required the USDA to provide food - based standards to help simplify menu - planning.

The school food workers were at least partly impressed with items ranging from simple 2 - ounce pouches of cut, peeled and flash - frozen carrots (from Fresh World Farms, about 22 cents each) to Chicken Breakfast Sticks from State Fair - sweetened pancakes wrapped around poultry sausage and mounted on a popsicle stick.

When I asked the School Nutrition Association, representing some 53,000 school food workers, to comment on the new law, they reported results from some recent price increases in different school districts.

The National School Boards Association and the School Nutrition Association, which represents 55,000 school food workers and gets about half of its revenue from the industry, backed a rider in the last omnibus spending bill to block future limits until there is more science to justify them.

I think that's because (a) the SNA holds a particularly respected position as the representative of the very people serving school meals and (b) what the SNA is asking for costs nothing and creates an easier path for school food workers and Congress, whereas supporting healthier school meals is a harder road (for some schools) that may require more funding from an unwilling Congress.

Launch 7 NEW COURSES through the School Food Institute to increase professional development in cook from scratch operations for school food workers.