Sentences with phrase «speaking with school food»

I was traveling to all day yesterday for a media appearance (more on that when I'm allowed to share), which was extremely frustrating because all I wanted to be doing was speaking with school food sources to get their reaction to USDA's announcement about school choice and pink slime.

Not exact matches

A self - deprecating NCAA is a welcome switch from the previously smug organization that has only been moved to meaningful action in the recent past by federal court decisions (the ban on cost - of - attendance stipends became illegal once the NCAA got whipped in O'Bannon vs. NCAA) and terrible PR (Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier made the schools look silly with their food rules by speaking out during a tournament that makes $ 770 million a year for the NCAA in television revenue, hence the unlimited meals rule change).

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 I'm starting to realize that my personal relationships with the people running our school food department may be impeding my ability to speak out as forcefully as I should about some of the very real problems I see.

McCoy spoke with parents and students to see what they liked and disliked about the school — the food was brought up again and again as an area that could use improvement.

I want to thank the reporter, Claudia Feldman, for taking time to speak with me about issues I — and most of you — care so much about: trying hard to feed our kids well in a less - than - healthy food environment; improving school food; and yes, my pet peeve of food in the classroom for birthday treats or performance rewards.

But speaking personally, as a parent who has packed healthy two lunches a day for the last 8 or so years and who is not a fan of our current school food, I certainly would NOT be happy to have a governmental authority tampering with my child's lunch.

Those are, I think, serious issues that groups like the Rudd Center should be discussing with representives of school food service professionals, who, as we speak, are swarming over Capitol Hill trying to convince their lawmakers that this particular provision of the child nutrition re-authorization should be put on hold and pilot tested.

Zac Chelini, a young adult with multiple food allergies, also spoke about his experience with bullying in grade school and beyond.

She is an almost - native of Colorado, and continues to speak and advocate for children with food allergies at the state level and in her school district's Food Allergy Task Force, in addition to writing a blog about living with food allergies on AllergicChild.food allergies at the state level and in her school district's Food Allergy Task Force, in addition to writing a blog about living with food allergies on AllergicChild.Food Allergy Task Force, in addition to writing a blog about living with food allergies on AllergicChild.food allergies on AllergicChild.com.

Fast forward a year and a half later, after a lot of time meeting with my own school district and having the valuable opportunity to speak via this blog with many «real world» school food providers, and my views haven't exactly changed but they've definitely softened.

I spoke a several times with one of the producers of the show a few months ago and was pleased to learn that school food and the school food environment will receive special focus.

In the meantime I have been speaking with the lunch manager at school, getting a feel for «where we are at» as far as the food goes.

A source I spoke with at Houston ISD Food Services told me that salad bars in Houston schools (whether obtained through Chef Ann's grant program or by private fundraising) are simply «not sustainable;» i.e., the fresh produce required to regularly stock a salad bar is too expensive.

Farina declined to speak with reporters Monday but during her appearance before the Assembly committee she spoke of the city's efforts to care for homeless students, including putting libraries in some shelters and food pantries and laundry services in schools with high percentages of homeless.

I spoke more openly about my struggles with friends and accepted help with food preparation, grocery shopping, and picking my children up from school.

It speaks directly to the issue of food insecurity and how low - income families in high poverty schools are either supported with breakfast after the bell programs or denied this opportunity.