After a long holiday break I’ve resumed posting on The Spork Report, my Houston ISD school food blog which also appears on the Houston Chronicle‘s chron.com site. Today I share a story about a dedicated elementary school principal who eats the school lunch with his students everyday and who, when hearing complaints about a particular entree, [...]
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It’s a possibility, as news breaks of an unexpected million dollar shortfall that may result in the non-renewal of Aramark’s contract. But what then? Today’s Spork Report discusses the options and the future of school food in the nation’s seventh largest district. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 Bettina Elias Siegel
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[Ed. Note: This post appears on today's The Spork Report, my new HISD school food blog, as well as the Houston Chronicle's Chron.com] My first post on this blog contained a disturbing photo of one child’s meal in HISD: baked Flaming Hot Cheetos covered with nacho sauce, items the student purchased separately in his/her middle school [...]
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[Ed Note: The following post appears on my Houston ISD school food blog, The Spork Report and is also posted at the Houston Chronicle's Chron.com.] When I was once asked by Slow Food USA to explain why I started my daily blog about kids and food, The Lunch Tray, I realized that a packet of [...]
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Today’s Spork Report discusses openings on the HISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee. If you’re interested, contact your school board trustee to apply for an appointment. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 Bettina Elias Siegel
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[Ed Note: This post also appears on The Spork Report, my blog covering school food in Houston ISD.] In the last year I’ve participated in two or three “Nutrition Strategy” meetings held by HISD Food Services, sessions which convene stakeholders from the district, the parent community, the public health profession, the urban gardening movement and elsewhere to [...]
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The Lunch Tray began out of my interest in improving school food here in Houston and, logically enough, the majority of early TLT readers were Houstonians. It was a wonderful surprise when the blog quickly grew to reach a national (and international) audience, and at last count Houstonians make up less than 7% of my [...]
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A few weeks ago I posted twice (here and here) about a school food boycott at Milby, a high school serving a relatively underprivileged Hispanic population in east Houston. Those two posts received quite a lot of comments, especially on the Houston Chronicle version of my site. One theme that emerged is whether I [...]
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I was unable to make it to the lunch room last week but my fellow Houston ISD/Aramark Food Services Parent Advisory Committee member, Donna Gershenwald, took a photo at her own child’s school. She happened to be there when one of the new vegetables on our lunch menu was being offered: steamed bok choy. The [...]
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I got to the lunch room late last week, so my “source” had already eaten much of her lunch: The entree was a new item on our menu this year: BBQ chicken. That’s right – an actual whole piece of chicken, unprocessed, unbreaded and quite tasty. As you can see from the photo, it [...]
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