I’ve written quite a bit here about the reliance of my school district on items like graham crackers to meet the high caloric requirements set by the USDA for school breakfasts. I’ve also been surprised as I do my “Notes from the Field” features to see how often dessert is served as part of the [...]
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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 Bruske, school food blogger and former WashPo reporter, continues to put pressure on his D.C. school district over the issue of rebates and volume discounts, originally discussed here on The Lunch Tray. To recap, food service management companies (FSMC’s) are required by law to pass on any rebates and discounts they receive from large food manufacturers [...]
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Close on the heels of Sodexo’s $21 million settlement with the state of New York for failing to properly pass on rebates and volume discounts to the school districts it serves, two assembly members in New Jersey have petitioned that state’s attorney general to investigate the same issue in New Jersey. And Ed Bruske, former [...]
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Thank goodness for the intrepid Ed Bruske at Better DC School Food for reporting about, and staying on top of, the troubling issue of food service management companies and the rebates and volume discounts offered to them by major food manufacturers. Bruske reports today that Sodexo, one of the world’s largest food service companies, has [...]
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Ed Bruske’s Better D.C. School Food is a great blog for those interested in improving school lunch, whether you live in the D.C. area or not. Today he posts about one D.C. public elementary school which may have its food services taken over this fall by a group of D.C. chefs — along with a [...]
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Yesterday I passed on a blog post by Ed Bruske (former Washington Post reporter and the blogger behind The Slow Cook and Better DC School Food blogs) regarding the outsize influence wielded in school cafeterias by huge food companies like Kellogg’s, Pepperidge Farm, Tyson’s and the rest. Bruske questioned whether the volume discounts and rebates [...]
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For today’s Friday Buffet, a potpourri of items that caught my attention this past week: DC School District to Stop Serving Flavored Milk DC parents have apparently succeeded in getting flavored milk out of their school district. Ed Bruske (the blogger behind The Slow Cook and Better DC School Food) posts about it here. [...]
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