For today’s Buffet: Jaime Oliver’s next challenge; a study confirms what we all know (but it’s still important); everything you ever wanted to know about produce; and the results of our reader poll are in. What, They’re Getting Fat From Too Many Wheat Grass Shots? After recently winning an Emmy, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution has [...]
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Forty-eight companies that market food to children and teens have been subpoenaed by the FTC, including such well known companies as Yum Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut), Chuck E. Cheese, and IHOP. The subpoenas are apparently part of an effort by the FTC to monitor the industry’s self-regulation in this area as it [...]
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FYI to Houstonians: I’m pleased to report that I’ve been asked to contribute on a semi-regular basis to the Examiner newspapers that go out to the West U, Memorial, Bellaire, and River Oaks neighborhoods, as well as appearing online. Today’s piece about changes to the HISD school menu will probably be familiar to Lunch Tray [...]
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Yesterday I announced that I and a team of school lunch reform luminaries – Janet Poppendieck, Mrs. Q, Chef Ann Cooper, Ed Bruske, and Dr. Susan Rubin – are going to band together to answer a Lunch Tray reader’s simple yet profound question — how does one parent begin to bring about change in school food? I call this group [...]
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A reader asked me if, when we got around to the Lunchbox Idea Exchange (which is still open for your ideas – hint, hint), I could also take a survey of everyone’s lunch packing routines. Are you a morning packer or nighttime packer? Or maybe you leave the packing to your kids? Do your kids [...]
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The Lunch Tray reported previously on Chef Ann Cooper’s program, in association with Whole Foods, to bring salad bars to schools around the country. Called The Great American Salad Bar Project, the program has already raised $680,000 of its $750,000 goal. (The amount raised to date represents about 270 salad bars.) In addition, today marks the [...]
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