Sentences with phrase «school lunch trays»

In the 2013 Fall semester, Global Green USA and Parsons the New School for Design held a class focused on re-designing New York City school lunch trays.

In the days following the announcement, a few readers asked me if the new USDA policy means that Chinese - processed chicken will appear on American school lunch trays.

-LSB-...] that such chicken could not appear on school lunch trays but after my post last week, the agency changed its website to make clear that private vendors (which supply 80 % of school food) can use Chinese - processed -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] troubling of all, as revealed in a report last year, Chinese - processed chicken can easily appear on school lunch trays and other child -LSB-...]

Worse still, as revealed in an exclusive Lunch Tray report last year, Chinese - processed chicken can easily appear on school lunch trays, despite the USDA's initial statement to the contrary.

He went to work for Hopkins Public Schools, where he earned a reputation as a pioneer in the practice of putting fresh food on school lunch trays.

-LSB-...] enough pink slime has ended up on our children's school lunch trays, brought to highlight by The Lunch Tray blog.

School Lunch Trays are also regulated now with a cap on calories, sugars, salts and a marked increase in whole grains.

I am a manufacturer of sustainable school lunch trays.

Turns out that even in a locavore, agricultural state like Vermont, it still takes a lot of work — and creativity — to change what's served on school lunch trays.

I know many of us would like to see fewer desserts on school lunch trays overall, but given the current USDA calorie requirements (which are high), dessert is not going away for the time being.

Too costly to implement, not to mention that Representatives from potato - growing states aren't pleased with the fact that french fries and tater tots can no longer stand in as the daily vegetable on school lunch trays.

In the fall of 2013, I wrote a series of posts (starting with this one) explaining to readers that — despite U.S. Department of Agriculture assurances to the contrary — chicken slaughtered in America but processed in China could eventually appear on school lunch trays.

The DC school district's position directly pits Chartwell's business interests against the rights of DC parents to know if (a) their school district is being unlawfully denied funds to which it is entitled and (b) if huge food manufacturers are wielding undue influence over the FSMC, resulting in that much more processed, sugary foods on school lunch trays.

Horribly enough pink slime has ended up on our children's school lunch trays, brought to highlight by The Lunch Tray blog.

What might have happened had that contaminated meat had actually reached our children's school lunch trays, given that children are far more vulnerable to harm from foodborne illnesses than adults?

They say changes to the law, renewed every five years, present the best chance to put healthier food than nachos on school lunch trays.

Add the tater tots, chocolate milk and an apple common on school lunch trays, and the total reaches about 923 calories, 37 grams of fat and 1,470 milligrams of sodium.

Donna travels the world to promote Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and the Academy, but she is still happiest eating lunch with Burke County Public School students, out standing in collard fields with organic farmer Sam Adderson, or planning new ways to get even more local products, like grits, onto school lunch trays and farmers market shopping bags.

It can be a photo of a school lunch tray with a pasta entrée or side salad; it can also be a salad bar or serving line with featuring a pasta dish; it can be a photo from your school kitchen where cooks are preparing your students favorite pasta menu item.

Every afternoon, Mrs. Q — who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for her job — photographed the lumps on her orange school lunch tray, and shared her observations about the food and how it affected students.

If there was great outrage when people found out about LFTB being in their McDonalds happy meals I can't say as I am surprised that their outrage is tenfold to find out the supply just shifted from the happy meal to the school lunch tray.

Jamie Oliver would be proud to see this menu on every kids» school lunch tray.

Learn more about what's on your kid's School Lunch Tray at SchoolNutrition.com or join the conversation on the Tray Talk Facebook page.

These printed trays were created by a company (and made of recycled materials) to assist with young children creating their school lunch tray.

After getting used to his surroundings, it was time to tackle the cafeteria and learn how to create his school lunch tray.

, I'll use a random number generator at 12 pm CST tomorrow (May 27) to award three readers the prize of their choice — a highly - sought - after Lunch Tray fridge magnet, or a genuine, vintage school lunch tray (yeah, I just might have a few of those left over from the recent lunch tray photo shoot.)

Or you may believe strongly that children are simply going to reject anything on a school lunch tray that's unfamiliar to them — beans and rice, or a veggie and chicken stir fry, for example — resulting in that much more food waste and hungry kids.

Am no food nazi, but have been a teacher & a volunteer in the cafeteria long enough to see that carefully packed healthy lunches & even the minimally standard nutritive valued school lunch tray offerings are both NEGATED by kids «choosing» to fill up on the empty calories in shiny packages.

Not exact matches

I started The Lunch Tray back in May, 2010, shortly after I became involved in school food reform in Houston ISD.

Instead of insisting that students take one fruit or vegetable each day at lunch, West New York School District (WNYSD) students willingly fill their lunch trays with healthy produce.

By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to... ReadLunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Readlunch line without the ability to... Read more

We somehow «met» through The Lunch Tray and I was taken not only with Justin's passionate commitment to providing school kids with healthy, delicious and sustainable meals, but also with his nuanced and clear - headed thinking about school food issues.

-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.

-LSB-...] few weeks ago I ended my post, «Confessions of a Sideline - Sitter,» by urging Lunch Tray readers to get actively involved in improving school food (as well as food -LSB-...]

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

Thanks for all of the hard work you put in on The Lunch Tray, Bettina — and especially thanks for continuing to work so hard even while school is out and your kids are on vacation.

So when Poppendieck herself came by The Lunch Tray yesterday and took me to task for some things I've recently written about the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, you can imagine how hard that criticism hitSchool Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, you can imagine how hard that criticism hitschool food professionals, you can imagine how hard that criticism hit home.

When I interviewed Wansink here on The Lunch Tray soon after, that «dissemination» was taking the form of regular newsletters sent to members of the School Nutrition Association, each explaining a different technique to get kids to eat better in the cafeteria.

So if something is bugging you about kids and food — whether it's the unnecessary «refueling» with Oreos at the 10 am soccer match, the prevalence of highly processed food on your child's lunch tray, or the Sunday school teacher who hands out candy for good behavior — speak up and get involved.

And as we've discussed in detail here on The Lunch Tray, some states are using that discretion to the fullest, declaring that most or even all of their school year is exempt from the Smart Snacks fundraising rules.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

Bettina Siegel blogs about food and food policy related to children over at The Lunch Tray, but you may know her better for her work on «pink slime;» in 2012, she garnered more than 258,000 signatures on a Change.org petition that led the USDA to change its policy on a low - quality ground beef product used in schools.

If the economics were the issue, the real «green» lunch would be the school lunch — it's cheap, it uses a central infrastructure (dishes / trays etc. at the school), and with pressure from parents and other interested parties, can be made from healthy, local and organic foods.

Bettina Elias Siegel who pens the always thought provoking The Lunch Tray fueled my school food frustrations via this post about the political fighting and blame going on over how and who is going to fix the school lunch programs and Lunch Tray fueled my school food frustrations via this post about the political fighting and blame going on over how and who is going to fix the school lunch programs and lunch programs and more.

Three commentators here on The Lunch Tray felt the caps: made it harder to serve healthy choices like sandwiches and soups; discouraged scratch cooking over the use of processed foods; and gave school food directors an incentive to serve «empty calories.»

While I believe all the issues on The Lunch Tray are worthy of discussion (even if some are a little sillier than others), and even though we've certainly discussed childhood hunger here and will continue to do so, any site claiming to be dedicated to «kids and food, in school and out» really ought to take affirmative steps to help kids with no food at all.

Not long after I started The Lunch Tray, a reader asked why my blog's photo depicted such an unhealthy school lunch: The short answer is that I started TLT on a whim, launching the site less than twenty - four hours after I decided to do it, and... [Continue reaLunch Tray, a reader asked why my blog's photo depicted such an unhealthy school lunch: The short answer is that I started TLT on a whim, launching the site less than twenty - four hours after I decided to do it, and... [Continue realunch: The short answer is that I started TLT on a whim, launching the site less than twenty - four hours after I decided to do it, and... [Continue reading]

Thanks for coming by The Lunch Tray — I greatly value the input of readers who are school food professionals and can share their real world experiences.

As for plate waste and changes in participation, please check out this piece I wrote on The Lunch Tray, cross-posted in Civil Eats, which summarizes an in - depth Pew research study on how schools are adapting.