You guys, I feel like I’m walking on air today . . . On a personal level, today marks my 15th year of wedded bliss with Mr. TLT – now also known to the world as the evil “Mr. Zee!” It also happens to be the birthday of one of my food heroes, Janet Poppendieck, [...]
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In March, 2011 I was honored to be chosen as one of the winners of a Slate magazine anti-childhood-obesity crowd-sourcing contest. My submission, entitled “Legislate, Educate and Inoculate to Create Food-Savvy Kids,” argued that we need to fight the problem on three fronts: legislation to curb the food industry’s rampant advertising to children; widespread nutrition [...]
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Back in July, 2011 I told you about Kids Live Well, a program created by the National Restaurant Association to improve the often-dismal offerings on most chain restaurant children’s menus. But in late March of this year, the Center for Science in the Public Interest issued a damning report which found that 97% of the restaurant [...]
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It’s one of those weeks when the school food news is coming in so fast, I can’t keep up! Here’s a quick round-up of articles of interest: A Fourth-Grader Goes Undercover in the Cafeteria – Are His Findings Accurate? Many of you have already seen on TLT’s Facebook page today’s New York Times blog account of a [...]
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A reader named Sheri left a thought-provoking comment on yesterday’s post in which I asked TLT’ers to chime in on a parent’s question about eliminating food in the classroom. Sheri pointed out that many kids come from food insecure households and therefore my desire to eliminate all food from the classroom (articulated most succinctly in [...]
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Between my recent laptop crash and this mysterious “Lunch-Tray-third-anniversary-project” I keep alluding to on Facebook, I’m falling woefully behind on various promised posts. One such post is the answer to a question left on TLT’s Facebook page by a reader named Allison who is concerned with junk food in her child’s classroom. Since I’m pressed [...]
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