Green Plate Kids is a Houston catering company committed to offering kids (and adults) delicious, healthy and convenient meals. It was founded by CEO Lisa Pounds, a dynamic mom who started the company out of frustration with existing prepared food options available for busy parents. A while back, Lisa left a comment on The Lunch Tray’s [...]
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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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[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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What a great food week this has been! We started our Food Day virtual progressive dinner party at my place with a spinach salad, then we moved on to Red, Round or Green for lamb and pasta, we enjoyed delicious vegetable side dishes at Eat Dinner.org and Dinner Together, and now we wrap up the [...]
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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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Last week I volunteered (as I do every month) with Recipe for Success, a wonderful “seed to plate” organization that brings school gardens and chefs to schools. Along with celebrity chef Monica Pope, RFS Director of Operations Molly Graham and two other volunteers, our fourth-grade class made veggie pizza using ingredients from the school garden. [...]
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I reported yesterday that my school district, Houston ISD, was holding a five-hour meeting “Nutrition Strategy Event” in an attempt to “define a clear direction and priorities for Houston ISD Food Services and its partners.” Despite the fact that the district inexplicably failed to even notify its own Food Services Parent Advisory Committee of the meeting, [...]
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Just wanted to share a few photos from the Lunch Line screening, reception and panel discussion last Thursday. Huge thanks to Mara Van Nostrand of MVN Photography for taking these on the fly!
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I won’t be posting today as I’m getting ready for the Houston Lunch Line screening and panel discussion tonight, co-sponsored by Applegate Farms and The Lunch Tray. So excited for this event — when I’m not remembering that, um, I actually have to address over 100 people from a stage. (Isn’t there any way we can [...]
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