I’ve don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions but for some reason this year I couldn’t stop making them, coming up with lofty goals for almost every aspect of my life. (I figure if I keep even a quarter of these resolutions, I’ll be a greatly improved individual.) Here are my 2012 food-related resolutions; at the [...]
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Well, this felt like a big cosmic joke. . . . Over the weekend, I was pleased to share with TLT readers my opinion piece in the Sunday Houston Chronicle urging our district to put an end to outsourced, highly processed foods in favor of scratch-cooked school meals with more variety than just pizza, burgers and fried [...]
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Just the other day I did something I’m so ashamed of – I had to toss what had been perfectly good food, now spoiled, straight into the trash. This isn’t a frequent occurrence, of course, but it happens with more regularity in my house than I’d like to admit. I’ve thought hard about how to [...]
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[Ed Note: There may be a local ordinance here in Houston, of which I and the district were unaware when I wrote this post back in August, that prevents donation of previously-served food. I'm looking into this and will report back.] My fellow HISD/Aramark Food Services Parent Advisory Committee member, Lisa Murry, writes a great [...]
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Let’s move away from the birthday cupcake debate (for now, anyway) and back to the issue of school food. Imagine that you’ve been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you like. But like any good Food Services Director, you do need to keep [...]
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