I asked Robyn if she could share
with Lunch Tray readers her evolution from ordinary mom to food activist, and her concern about novel proteins that have been introduced into our food supply.]
Thanks so much for sharing
with Lunch Tray readers.
In an earlier «TLT's Table» feature I shared one of my family's favorite Scramble chicken recipes, Crispy Baked Drumsticks (and Thighs) and I promised in that post to share another TLT favorite
with Lunch Tray readers.
-LSB-...] Table» feature I shared one of my family's favorite Scramble chicken recipes, Crispy Baked Drumsticks (and Thighs) and I promised in that post to share another TLT favorite
with Lunch Tray readers.
Alana Morales recently posted: Interview
with The Lunch Tray
San Francisco school food advocate Dana Woldow (who strongly supports the measure) had a nice back and forth
with Lunch Tray readers in the comments that came out of the poll.
TLT: Is there anything else you'd like to share
with Lunch Tray readers about the CNR or school food in particular?
to line up
with a lunch tray, eat with your child, and talk to the people who serve up the food day in and day out.
Since then, I've expanded my school food / food politics reading library and thought it might be nice to swap book ideas
with Lunch Tray readers.
Now, wouldn't you rather have all that news — along
with every Lunch Tray post and stimulating reader interaction — delivered fresh daily to your Facebook news feed?
Bristol, Vermont Walking away from the salad bar
with lunch trays packed with vibrant veggies, students in Bristol, Vermont are exclaiming «I love those beet things!»
Not exact matches
You don't see most of what I eat online and most of my meals are far from beautiful, I often eat quick cook porridge for dinner, jars of peanut butter
with a spoon for breakfast, tubs of hummus
with slightly stale rye bread on the tube for
lunch and a few too many
trays of not - quite - right brownies when I'm recipe testing.
On the days mom was tied up
with her from - home baking business,
lunch dates
with her sisters, or marathon training, I would end up
with a hot
lunch and sit there longing for my PB no - J and pick around the questionable foods that filled my plastic cafeteria
tray.
Our
lunch meat trucks come complete
with full length
trays that slide in and out of the truck for easy loading and unloading of product.
So after a pleasant
lunch in the outdoors of grilled lotte (monkfish) and a salad of fresh shelling beans
with avocados, tomatoes, and savory, (and the obligatory cheese course, bien sûr), I poured us cups of strong, very dark coffee and set out a
tray of these cookies.
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.
In addition to dine - in and take - out service, McAlister's also offers catering
with a selection of sandwich
trays, box
lunches, desserts, a hot spud bar and more.
Reposted
with permission by: Bettina Elias SiegelLast month on The
Lunch Tray's Facebook page I shared a link to an eye - opening special report in Parents Magazine about hunger in America.
In fact, every time we ate
lunch or dinner in a restaurant, 90 - 95 % of all the tables had an open bottle of red wine in the midst of
trays piled
with meat.
Or maybe if you ignore the high chair
trays that I currently have all over my kitchen — one
with last nights dinner, and one
with today's
lunch still on it... or the rugs that I finally got to cleaning (on monday) hanging over said pack and play and the other draped over a kitchen chair....
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.
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.
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.
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.
* In a subsequent
Lunch Tray interview
with then - USDA undersecretary Kevin Concannon about the new daycare food rules, Mr. Concannon was quite frank about the role of money in this decision: because of Congressional underfunding, a recommendation that kids get only whole fruits and vegetables instead of juice was relegated to an optional «best practice» instead of being an enforceable mandate.
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.
When I post again about donation, I'll email you directly
with the link, but for now I'm so glad you found The
Lunch Tray, and thank you for commenting!
I'm not sure I understand why a group that loves The
Lunch Tray would want to give out candy...» for peets sake on Halloween»
with 72 % of the readership going candy only.
Then, a few months ago, Chris connected
with me through The
Lunch Tray to discuss an issue that's of serious concern to many readers of this blog: the ridiculously short amount of time allotted for students to eat lunch at many sch
Lunch Tray to discuss an issue that's of serious concern to many readers of this blog: the ridiculously short amount of time allotted for students to eat
lunch at many sch
lunch at many schools.
As part of our Family Dinner Dilemma discussion,
Lunch Tray reader (and friend) Donna recently alerted me to «No Take Out,» a free recipe service that provides you
with a new dinner menu each night.
Along
with the goodies offered by my fellow panelists, I'll be giving away a bunch of cool
Lunch Tray magnets (featuring a tiny reproduction of a vintage school lunch poster) as well as two vintage lunch t
Lunch Tray magnets (featuring a tiny reproduction of a vintage school
lunch poster) as well as two vintage lunch t
lunch poster) as well as two vintage
lunch t
lunch trays.
All content on The
Lunch Tray (
with the exception of content created by or licensed from third parties) is © Bettina Elias Siegel, [year of publication, which is indicated in the byline of each post] and is digitally protected by Digiprove.
Kids who did sit down
with a school
lunch often left a good portion of it on the
tray.
I'm so thrilled to own this book and even more thrilled to share a free copy
with one lucky
Lunch Tray reader.
Under some circumstances I may use this address to contact you directly if, for example, I'd like more information about something you wrote, or want to discuss something
with you which is unlikely to be of interest to the entire
Lunch Tray community.
For that reason, I'm flirting
with the idea of ditching the whole tradition of the
Lunch Tray Friday Buffet.
When I started writing The
Lunch Tray in 2010, an actual week's menu in Houston ISD included breaded chicken sandwiches, cheeseburgers, chicken fried steak fingers
with cream gravy, beef taco nachos, beef taco salad, pepperoni pizza and Frito Pie (fried corn chips topped
with chili and cheese).
The head support on the Fisher - Price Papasan Cradle Swing cradles your baby in cushy comfort while a removable snack
tray with bead bar allows your baby to easily come to breakfast,
lunch, or dinner without much fuss.
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.
I actually came across Bri's blog via Bettina Elias Siegel who writes The
Lunch Tray, a very popular blog about, well, you know I'm not going to shock you with this, kids and l
Lunch Tray, a very popular blog about, well, you know I'm not going to shock you
with this, kids and
lunchlunch.
Thereafter, the white flour biscuits and white flour pasta macaroni and cheese (along
with, presumably, other white - flour foods) will be returning to Haywood County
lunch trays.
-LSB-...] cooler bags
with their
trays for $ 7.95, but other
lunch bags and coolers will work.
-LSB-...] The
Lunch Tray: A NC school district celebrates rolling back child nutrition standards
with white fl... Sigh.
So bear
with me for a few more weeks — expect delays, as they say — and by September, The
Lunch Tray should be running at peak efficiency.
On tap for this week's
Lunch Buffet: all Jamie, all the time; a dose of reality from a school food reformer; and a word of warning to
Lunch Tray readers carrying a few extra pounds — and
with plans to emigrate to New Zealand (all one of you.)
And I sincerely thank you for sharing The
Lunch Tray with others in your community.
I don't believe that people's body weight correlates
with their views on these sorts of issues; for example, I have a
Lunch Tray reader who's been battling obesity since childhood and is therefore all the more health - conscious as she raises her young daughter.
Of more relevance to
Lunch Tray readers, however, is that Woldow also takes issue
with Jamie Oliver's much - watched, Emmy - winning Food Revolution series, season two of which premieres on April 12th
That's what happened here, so let me excerpt a bit of your comment and we can have a discussion
with the whole
Lunch Tray readership.