At 9pm EST tonight, I’ll be a panelist at a Twitter party discussing food dyes – their prevalence in packaged foods, the scientific concerns about them, and efforts to remove them from the American food supply.
I’ll be joined by:
- Robyn O’Brien – Author of The Unhealthy Truth and Founder of The Allergy Kids Foundation (@unhealthytruth)
- Laurie David – Author of The Family Dinner (@laurie_david)
- Gina Rau – Marketing strategist and founder of Feed Our Families (@ginarau)
- Janelle Sorensen – Chief Communications Officer for Healthy Child Healthy World (@healthy_child)
- Lisa Druxman – Founder of Stroller Strides and author of Lean Mommy (@lisadruxman)
- Kelly Rudnicki – Author of The Food Allergy Mama’s Cookbook and creator of Food Allergy Mama (@foodallergymama)
- Nicole Betancourt – Founder and CEO of Parent Earth (@parentearth)
Compared to the rest of this illustrious panel, I feel a bit like an interloper! But I’ll be right there with you asking questions and learning from the conversation.
To join the party:
- Follow everyone listed above.
- Use the hashtag #SafeFood on all of your tweets so everyone can see them.
- Try Tweet Grid to make following the party easier. (They don’t let us make a unique URL anymore, so put the hashtag in the left column, this in the middle column “from:healthy_child OR from:unhealthytruth OR from:ginarau OR from:foodallergymama OR from:parentearth OR from:lisadruxman OR from:thelunchtray” [without quotation marks], and your twitter name in the right column. Then log in and have fun!)
And finally, it wouldn’t be a real party without prizes! 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 trays.
Hope lots of Lunch Tray will participate! See you tonight!
Mike P says
Be sure to check out CSPI’s new mobile app, “Chemical Cuisine,” that contains details about many additives, including which are considered safe and which are not: http://cspinet.org/new/201104111.html (in case you didn’t already know about this!)
Bettina Elias Siegel says
Mike: Did not know about this and as I describe in this post (which has a shout out to you!) I shared your link with everyone at the Twitter party last night. Thanks for posting it here. – Bettina
jenna Food w/ Kid Appeal says
sorry i missed it! I’ll go back and read the tweets. will you be recapping on TLT? would love to hear what you learned, whether or not bystanders were drawn into the conversation, or whether it was good networking experience for the panelist.
great way to raise awareness, love it.
Bettina Elias Siegel says
Jenna — Here’s a recap of sorts, with a shout-out to you!