Those of you who followed the “School Food Superheroes” series got the benefit of hearing from me and from five leading school food reformers (Janet Poppendieck, Ed Bruske, Mrs. Q, Dr. Susan Rubin and Chef Ann Cooper) on how to begin to change the food environment at your own school (or school district). Now that the series is concluded, I’ve [...]
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[Ed. Note: Recently a Lunch Tray reader asked a very basic question -- how can one parent begin to change school food? I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the school-wide [...]
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[Ed. Note: Recently a Lunch Tray reader asked a very basic question -- how can one parent begin to change school food? I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the school-wide food culture (fundraisers, [...]
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As we approach tomorrow’s deadline for the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, CNN/Eatocracy has this interview with Dana Woldow, a parent and school food advocate in San Francisco. I love Woldow’s clear-eyed assessment of the problems schools face in improving food. For example, although she applauds the attention that Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move to Schools [...]
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[Ed. Note: Recently a Lunch Tray reader asked a very basic question -- how can one parent begin to change school food? I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the [...]
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Recently a Lunch Tray reader asked a very basic question — how can one parent begin to change school food? I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the school-wide food [...]
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Last week 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’m taking on three [...]
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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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Last week I received this email, which perfectly expresses the dismay many parents feel when they first venture into the world of public school food: Recently my son started all day Kindergarten. I was extremely concerned when I looked at the menu for his school lunches and showed my husband. In addition, I’ve noticed that he’s coming [...]
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[Ed. Note: When I switched from a three-day-a-week publishing schedule to multiple posts, five-days-a-week, I did so in part because I had a backlog of posts that I just couldn't squeeze in. Here's one such post, which I wrote several weeks ago. A small portion of it also appeared in my recent guest blog [...]
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