At the last Houston ISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting of the school year, we were given a lot of information about some promising changes ahead in school food for the 2011-12 school year. So much information, in fact, that I kept putting off writing it all up for TLT because I knew it [...]
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When I recently questioned the wisdom of Jamie Oliver’s current campaign to get flavored milk out of schools, I did so with a lot of trepidation. No one likes the amount of sugar in flavored milk, but I felt it important to draw attention to the other side of the debate, i.e, the many respected [...]
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From today’s Dining section, this story about whether or not flavored milk should be served in school cafeterias. Not much new is presented by the Times, but it’s a good summary of the issues at stake. Coincidentally, I’m just now finishing a post in which I revisit my earlier position reluctantly supporting flavored milk in [...]
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As many readers know, I’ve been serving on a Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) to Houston ISD’s Food Services since its inception last spring. Like many large urban school districts around the country, HISD has outsourced its food services to a food service management company (FSMC) — in this case, Aramark. Because of the huge [...]
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Here in Houston, we’re one week away from the start of school. I had a great time hanging out with my kids over the break, but it was perhaps not so clever of me to launch a new blog one day before school ended in May. All summer I’ve been trying to work on The [...]
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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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Several years ago, when my kids were at a Jewish preschool, I and another parent joined a newly formed committee that was charged with improving the school’s snacks. At the first meeting, the topic of treats in the classroom came up and my friend and I proposed that the school put an end to [...]
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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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Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, recently left a very interesting comment on this site and since most readers probably don’t have the time to peruse every comment, I wanted to reproduce it here. Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my “school lunch guru”) was [...]
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At the age of three or so, one of my children declared categorically that he didn’t like milk and wasn’t going to drink it anymore. Five years later he hasn’t wavered from that position but he’s more than willing to down a flavored milk – chocolate, vanilla or strawberry – whenever I’m inclined to [...]
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