Sentences with phrase «than the lunch tray»

I'm dressed as none other than the Lunch Tray's favorite processed food horror — the Candwich.

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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.

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.

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Over a period of weeks or months, I'd be willing to bet, consistently having those fruits and veggies and white milk, etc. show up on kids» lunch trays — by their own choosing, sneakily or not — would likely lead to more consumption of those items as familiarity set in and kids, hungry for their lunches, realized that eating the orange and the salad might be better than leaving the cafeteria only half - full.

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

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?

Well, within less than twelve hours, all five of these very busy people kindly agreed to sign on and assist me in helping this Lunch Tray reader figure out where to start.

Even before I started The Lunch Tray, I'd read in Janet Poppendieck's Free for All: Fixing School Food in America references to data showing that, on average, children who regularly eat the federally subsidized school meal consume a wider variety of nutrients than those who consistently eat a home - packed lLunch Tray, I'd read in Janet Poppendieck's Free for All: Fixing School Food in America references to data showing that, on average, children who regularly eat the federally subsidized school meal consume a wider variety of nutrients than those who consistently eat a home - packed lunchlunch.

[Blogger disclosure: Other than receiving free samples for review, I never accept any form of compensation for product reviews you see here on The Lunch Tray.]

These districts have found that not only can a regional food system be more efficient than a local or conventional one, but «when food grown regionally is eaten in season, it's tastier when it reaches kids» lunch trays — and there's a better chance that kids will eat it.»

By allowing kids to make their own food decisions, rather than asking lunch ladies to load up trays, you disarm their pickiness.

This fall, the more than 38 million kids who get their lunches through the National School Lunch Program are seeing big changes on their trays.

But when kids are truly going without food at home, or where food is scarce and not regularly available, I think most of us would agree that what's on the current lunch trays is far better than nothing.

On set, she eats her lunch off partitioned trays she buys at Target («way better than Styrofoam») and installed a water filter on the faucet in her trailer's sink.

Jenna: Well, the truth is, I've always conceived of The Lunch Tray's mission as a little broader than that.

This recent Lunch Tray post contains several very easy steps you can take to show your support for healthier school meals, and most of them don't take more than a few seconds.

The Lunch Tray did a little experiment in her child's school and found more than twice the recommended daily -LSB-...]

I know that the food isn't always the best of the best and that there are a lot of calories, more than needed, per tray during lunch.

They were good, and it was great to see a potato on a lunch tray in something other than a french fry or tater tot form.