Sentences with phrase «talk about school food»

When we talk about school food we are touching on agriculture and economic development, public health and equity, community building and cooperation around achieving shared goals.

In 2009, Bellingham Public Schools in Washington state brought together a coalition of district employees, parents, students, foodservice workers, community organizations and food advocates to talk about school food.

Whenever you talk about school food reform, it's entirely predictable that a small subset of commenters will ask why, if school meals are so inferior, kids don't just bring a PBJ and an apple from home.

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They are talking about everyone who chooses to be self - employed — from a corner food vendor without a high school diploma to a high - tech founder with a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.)

«We are talking to the city council about how much money they spend on prison, schools, hospitals — places the city runs — and how much money it spends on food in those areas.

Lunch boxes, food containers, baggies and thermoses... shelves and fridge stocked with after - school snacks and drinks... breakfast items for the brain and the body... tasty suppers that you can make on a busy weeknight... lazy Sunday's around the family table where you can talk about your crazy week... Have you started planning those back - to - school menus yet?

Years went by, and everyone from school was still talking about the authentic Indian food we had eaten during college.

when talking about homeschooling, cooking real food dinners for their family or returning to school and pursuing their dreams.

Jessica currently works in many different school districts teaching the kitchen staff to improve their culinary skills and talking to the students about cooked - from - scratch foods.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

As we've talked about many times on The Lunch Tray, school food reform will only be successful if parents and districts work together collaboratively, each respecting the concerns and expertise of the other.

In this article from The Huffington Post, author Chris Elam talks about the launch of our groundbreaking new website advocating for major reform in school food, The Lunch Box.

That said, advocates also need to work on their talking points about what school food should look like and how we realistically get there in a world where most people don't seem to care.

Beyond Breakfast sat down with Jessica Shelly (RS, REHS, MBA), Food Services Director of Cincinnati Public Schools to talk about her school breakfast program.

On my more optimistic days, I feel like we can get there — but only when so many young people are dropping like flies from obesity - related diseases that even the most fiscally conservative Congressperson will cough up more funding (and I'm not talking about a paltry 6 cents) to improve school food.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

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As I say in my tagline, it's about «kids and food, in school and out,» and because of my own interest and involvement in school food reform on the ground, there's often a lot of talk about that here.

Before we discuss after school snacks, we talk about which food groups they need to eat from to have a balanced nutrition for the day.

Mike and Jamie talk about John Deasy and Mike expresses hope that school food will be a top priority for the new superintendent.

This is a serious challenge for school food advocates, and we'll be talking more about it in the weeks and months ahead.

One of the less talked about mandates of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the federal legislation overhauling school food, is a provision requiring schools to provide children with free, potable drinking water wherever school meals are... [Continue reading]

When there's a Thanksgiving food drive at school, talk to your child about why you're donating canned goods.

I decided to call Chef Ann Cooper, aka The Renegade Lunch Lady, to talk about this issue and she told me of an idea I'd never heard of — the school food «buy - cott.»

I'm hoping to hold additional screenings in my community to help fuel the discussion because I think this movie is a great way to get people together to start talking about how to create real changes in school food!

The workers are calling for five specific changes they plan to present to the school board during a Wednesday meeting: soliciting input from lunchroom staff to help improve school food, offering more training and education for lunchroom workers, adding collective bargaining language that protects workers» right to talk about the food to parents and kids, building working kitchens in all new schools, and ceasing the replacement of fresh food with frozen and reheated fare.

We've talked here before about so - called «copycat snacks» in schools, i.e., highly processed foods such as snacks, pizza and breakfast cereals which bear all the same logos and brand names as their supermarket or restaurant counterparts, but which... [Continue reading]

Entitled «Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds: Serving Change in Public School Food,» the conference is cosponsored by Let's Talk About Food, the Massachusetts State Office of Nutrition and Health, the Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic and the Harvard University Dining Services» Food Literacy Project.

And this month, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is encouraging parents to make a date to have lunch with their child at school and talk about healthy food choices -LSB-...]

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I see numerous campaigns and programs geared toward removing fat and cholesterol out of school lunch and reducing calories, but almost nothing is talked about in terms of serving real food to children — schools continue to serve processed, toxic, fake foods to children and there is constant wonderment about how we can improve their health because they are supposedly too sedentary.

One of the less talked about mandates of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the federal legislation overhauling school food, is a provision requiring schools to provide children with free, potable drinking water wherever school meals are served.

Justin Williams, The Abbey Group's Northeast Kingdom food service director, appeared on «Lyndon Live» on Magic 97.7 last Friday, Sept. 29, to talk about Lyndon Town School's meal program.

We need to be talking about the laws that are available for children with food allergies in schools.

The fast food chain has ended its school nutrition program that saw Iowa science teacher John Cisna traveling the country for almost a year, talking to students about weight loss.

At Wahluke School District in central Washington, Fresh Food in Schools partner Joan Qazi helped to bring Cloudview Ecofarm to Mattawa Elementary, where farmers conducted a tasting of their sweet heirloom and cherry tomatoes while talking to students about farming.

This article from a local Boulder, CO paper discusses the newly - launched fundraising campaign, and points up the very issue we've been talking about so much in recent weeks here on TLT: namely, can a district offer the kind of healthful food that Chef Ann champions without extra funding (over and above what the USDA reimburses schools)?

This isn't the first time I've sat in a room like this, where community stakeholders were brought together to talk about improving Houston's school food.

As we've talked about before on TLT, preparing school food from scratch demands more and sometimes better skilled labor, and this is especially true when we're talking about the handling of potentially dangerous raw proteins like chicken.

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I finally started printing our menu out so that I could talk to the kids about making good food choices at school.

We talked a while back on TLT about one intrepid principal's attempt to prevent students from buying junk food at businesses near her school campus.

AC: Since kids eat lunch every day at school (whether it's packed for them at home or offered in a school cafeteria), I see it as a perfect opportunity to talk about the ways that their food is connected to their environment, their health, their community and issues of equity around the world.

TLT: Is school food your springboard to talk about larger issues and, if so, what are some of those issues?

After I wrote a series of articles about the industrially - processed convenience foods being served in my daughter's elementary school here in the District of Columbia I heard that Tony had been reluctant to talk to me because he thought I was putting too much pressure on Whitney Bateson, the nutritionist for Chartwells, the giant food service company contracted to provide meals for D.C. public schools.

Boundas and I had talked about the fact that, having invested $ 52 million in a huge central kitchen, Houston is unlikely to ever return to cooking food on site at each school, the sort of scratch cooking Boundas advocates.

If we're talking about universal lunch, or perhaps a school where there is a very high Free and Reduced volume and the child either eats or goes hungry, then yes, you can theoretically force healthy foods on them.

The way I approach discussions about school food is similar to how I learned to approach talking to my boyfriend (now husband) about important issues.

Get a group of parents together, even two, go to your principal and talk about getting rid of the slushies, or hot cheetos being sold at your high school store, or other unhealthy foods on your campus.

talk about salt (sodium) in our kids food at school.