The Lunch Tray Is Now on the Huff Po!

January 20, 2012

Hey, this is neat:  I just found out that selected Lunch Tray posts will now appear on the Huffington Post at Huff Post Parents!   My first post appears there today and I’ll post the same content here on TLT right now.  (In the future, the posts will appear simultaneously.) See you there. . . . [...]

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A Surprise Friday Buffet – Dig In!

January 20, 2012

Readers may remember that I used to have a weekly feature called the Lunch Tray Friday Buffet in which I rounded up on Fridays a potpourri of news and housekeeping items, from the serious to the ridiculous. The Buffet took a lot of time to put together each week and I finally let it fall [...]

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Leveling the Playing Field With Healthful Food Ads?

January 18, 2012

If you follow TLT’s Facebook page, you might remember reading about a competition held by USDA seeking videos to promote fruit and vegetable consumption.  As it happens, TLT friend and school food reformer Dana Woldow, along with her videographer son, Max Schreiber (who once created a great little video for this blog) won a prize for their video, [...]

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The Lunch Tray on Pinterest!

January 17, 2012

For the last few months, every time someone mentioned Pinterest in my presence I plugged my ears and hummed to drown out any discussion of yet another social media site.  Between daily blogging and updates to Facebook, Twitter and my barely used Google Plus accounts, where on earth was I going to find the time? [...]

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An Interview With Lisa Pounds, CEO of Green Plate Kids

January 13, 2012

Green Plate Kids is a Houston catering company committed to offering kids (and adults) delicious, healthy and convenient meals.  It was founded by CEO Lisa Pounds, a dynamic mom who started the company out of frustration with existing prepared food options available for busy parents. A while back, Lisa left a comment on The Lunch Tray’s [...]

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TLT Guest Post: “A Day in the Life of a Food Corps Service Member”

January 12, 2012

I hope by now you’ve heard about FoodCorps, an exciting new public service organization (part of AmeriCorps) dedicated to improving the health of children in low-income communities where kids are hit hardest by the obesity epidemic.  Operating in ten states (and possibly expanding to two more in the near future), FoodCorps service workers dedicate a year of [...]

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Spork Report: A Nice School Food Story from My District

January 11, 2012

After a long holiday break I’ve resumed posting on The Spork Report, my Houston ISD school food blog which also appears on the Houston Chronicle‘s chron.com site. Today I share a story about a dedicated elementary school principal who eats the school lunch with his students everyday and who, when hearing complaints about a particular entree, [...]

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Is Betty Draper to Blame for the Obesity Epidemic?

January 11, 2012

During my December blogging vacation I read a Los Angeles Times piece in which a fitness and nutriton expert, Melinda Sothern, posited that at least some blame for the current obesity epidemic can be directed at women who gave birth during the 1950s and 60s. Here’s her theory:  under their doctors’ guidance, many women in the 50s and [...]

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TLT’s Table: Kid-Approved (!) Kale Chips

January 9, 2012

Yesterday I found myself shouting at my child five words never before uttered in the TLT household: “Please stop eating the kale!” Allow me to explain. Last week I was tooling around Andy Bellatti’s blog, Small Bites. (If you’re not familiar with Andy, he’s a smart, articulate RD who offers readers nutrition information, recipes and [...]

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How Not To Be a Fruitcake

January 6, 2012

A fellow Houston ISD School Health Advisory Council member recently showed me a card she’d received from Parents for Public Schools of Houston which talks about how parents need to band together if they want to improve public education. I wanted to post the card here because this message of “strength in numbers” is equally applicable to any [...]

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