Well, I’m really spoiling my readers with book giveaways lately – it seems like we’ve been having almost one per week! I hope you’re enjoying them as much as I enjoy getting to read all these new kid/food books. Today I’m giving you a chance to win Super Snacks for Super Kids. I first learned [...]
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For me, the hardest part of daily school-lunch-packing is they way my list of regular lunch items seems to shrink over time, as old standbys fall out of favor and I just can’t seem to come up with new ideas. By year’s end, we’re crawling to the finish line. That’s why I’m so excited to [...]
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Continuing with our annual September series, “It Takes A Village to Pack a Lunch,” I wanted to share a thought-provoking post by Dina Rose that originally appeared on her blog, It’s Not About Nutrition. Even though Dina and I don’t always agree on every kid/food issue, I love the way she delivers sometimes unwelcome truths to [...]
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With many of us packing our kids off to sleep-away camp, be sure to check out the article in today’s New York Times on the growing focus of some summer camps on healthful, local and well-prepared food. The shift from hot dogs to haute cuisine not only accommodates parents’ growing concerns about their kids’ diets, [...]
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Although regular readers of TLT may have a sense of my liberal politics, I generally try to keep this forum neutral and nonpartisan. (Except when I’m talking about Rush Limbaugh. Or the Heritage Foundation. Or conservative pundits who want to end the school lunch program and let poor kids fend for themselves. Or right wing [...]
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A reader recently sent me a Reuters article describing a study from Canada which demonstrates (not surprisingly) that adolescents from food insecure households perform better academically and have better behavior in school when the schools provide meal assistance. The study reminded me that way back in July (and then again in August!), I promised to explain how [...]
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