Sentences with phrase «school lunch rooms»

To fight a growing trend in school lunch rooms to exclude flavored milk, it recently launched this media campaign.

Until that relationship is modified, processed junk will still find its way into many school lunch rooms.

Longtime readers may remember my «Notes from the Field» feature, where I'd pop into my kids» elementary school lunch room regularly to snap photos and talk with the kids about what they were eating.

Anyone who read last December's New York Times report on beef processing might understandably shudder when watching a child eat a hamburger in a public school lunch room.

Mary: Your middle school lunch room stories make my hair stand on end!

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The bottom line is that the federal government wants to see freely available drinking water in school lunch rooms at the start of this school year, a laudable goal that almost everyone wholeheartedly supports.

The idea that school lunch rooms need to look like 7 - Eleven is ludicrous.

But the real story is that pizza and chicken nuggets are served due to a myriad of factors, starting with an underfunded school lunch program (only about $ 1 spent on food per child per meal), our current agricultural policies, the political and market influence of huge manufacturers of processed foods, the presence of «competitive» junk food in school lunch rooms, and many others.

But as we discussed a while back (see «Why I Just Rained on Someone's School Food Reform Parade,» the posts linked to it and the many comments), the last thing I want to see is an ever - growing divide between rich and poor kids when it comes to being able to eat a healthful meal in a public school lunch room.

How I'm dreading the middle school lunch room.

But in terms of the tone used by the lunch room volunteers — I will say that my two kids are now old veterans of public elementary school lunch rooms and they've certainly endured their share of barking lunch room monitors.

Many of us who've been in school lunch rooms have seen children take fruits and vegetables (even when they're not required to do so, since most schools use «offer versus serve»), yet still leave them untouched on their trays.

As I've written about before on The Lunch Tray (see «Many a Slip Twixt Kitchen and School «-RRB-, districts face real challenges in ensuring that their school lunch rooms present meals in the manner in which they were intended to be served.

I still remember the stories of older children (in middle and high school) choking on hot dogs in the school lunch room or at home.

Visits with grandparents, sleep - overs, birthday parties, school lunch rooms, and sporting events are all potential places where your gluten - free child may unintentionally expose to gluten.

The fact is parents have very little influence as to what actually happens in the school lunch room.

If you are concerned about what is being served in your child's school lunch room, the first person you should talk with is the person in charge of the school lunch room.

For example, if you see that ice cream and candy are being sold in the lunch room every day, tell the school lunch room person that you have seen the items for sale during lunch, that you know it does not comply with the new guidelines, and you would like it removed from the lunch room.

But according to the BBC and other news outlets, Martha's local town council has just ruled she may no longer take photographs in the school lunch room.

Her thesis research titled Effects of Advertising Methods on Sixth - Grade Population focused on increasing student fruit selection and consumption in the school lunch room.

One thing I found interesting is that in Rome, NO outside food is allowed in school lunch rooms.

I did some investigating and was surprised to learn that during the very same month Jonathan Jewth died from choking, two other children (coincidentally also in New York state) were reported to have choked on food in school lunch rooms.

But then I started thinking about the typical elementary school lunch room: children talking, laughing, shouting and sometimes playfully shoving each other as they eat.

I also raised the possibility of a middle ground solution, already instituted by some school districts, of lowering the sugar content and removing objectionable ingredients from flavored milk before banning it altogether, to the extent many parents and nutritional experts still want to see it in school lunch rooms.

I have gone into my own kids» public school lunch room, in a relatively affluent neighborhood in central Houston, btw, and have seen (and photographed) poorly prepared food — items that are still frozen, items like green vegetables that are grossly overcooked, to the point of almost being brown, etc..

As I've written about before on The Lunch Tray (see «Many a Slip Twixt Kitchen and School «-RRB-, districts face real challenges in ensuring that their school lunch rooms present meals in -LSB-...]

We know that hydration is essential to keeping children alert for academic learning, and for those who oppose flavored milk in school lunch rooms, the presence of freely available water seems all the more important since it gives kids an alternative to a sugared beverage.

In fact, SNA's 2009 Operations Report found that of the more than 1,200 school districts surveyed, 96 percent now offer whole grain items in school lunch rooms.

Apparently, the Chicago public schools» food service management company (Chartwells) will not allow produce grown by CPS students in school gardens to be served in school lunch rooms.

All our efforts go to waste if our kids sit down at the table in the school lunch room and don't eat their lunch.

Bettina Siegel said: Chartwells says the veggies grown in school gardens can't be served in school lunch rooms.

It shows how behavioral psychologists from Cornell have come up with various tricks and techniques that get kids to make better choices in school lunch rooms.

Unless our children are not walking into the school lunch room hungry (why would this be I don't know), we can conclude that some children reject the school lunches because they lack taste or because there are not enough choices to meet their desires.

The event drew so large a crowd that the school lunch room, where the forum was held, was soon filled to capacity, and an adjacent auditorium was quickly prepped accommodate the overflow.

I've known Patrick for 20 years, the two of us wandering far and wide since we met in the middle school lunch room.