One of the fun things about writing this blog is sometimes getting to review books and films relating to kids and food. Over the summer, Avis Richards of the Birds Nest Foundation was kind enough to send me a screener DVD of the foundation’s 2010 film entitled, simply enough, Lunch. Here’s a preview: Lunch is [...]
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One of the events that led to my starting The Lunch Tray was picking up a copy of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America. It’s a comprehensive analysis of all that’s wrong with today’s school food program (and some innovative ideas on how to fix it) and I found reading it to be an [...]
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Chef Ann Cooper’s The Lunch Box organization recently shared with me a post from their blog and offered to let me repost it here. It’s written by Ryan Andrews, a registered dietitian who, according to The Lunch Box, was impressed with the daily need to consult his adult clients on healthy eating habits they should have [...]
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For a long time I’ve wanted to write on TLT about School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty largest school districts in the country to improve school food. I’d first read about FOCUS in Janet Poppendieck’s Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, and later [...]
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On May 25th last year, I had lunch with my writing group and tentatively raised an idea that had been niggling at me for a week or two. I’d recently joined our district’s Food Services Parent Advisory Committee (reluctantly because, after all, my own kids won’t even eat school food), and then, realizing how much I had [...]
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On a flight to New York City this past weekend, I was catching up on a project for our School Health Advisory Council when my seat mate noticed the Houston ISD logo on my paperwork. She asked if I worked for the district, so I explained what I was doing and that I write The [...]
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Earlier today I posted on my TLT Facebook fan page a story in today’s Chicago Tribune about a public school which has banned parents from sending lunches from home. I was going to leave it at that, but there’s been a lot of Internet chatter about this story, as well as thoughtful comments on my [...]
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The Chicago Tribune reports that Chicago Public Schools agreed on Wednesday to implement a universal, in-class breakfast program for all of its 410,000 students. Here in Houston we’ve already implemented the same program district-wide, and for those unfamiliar with it, “in-class breakfast” means just that: children receive a free breakfast (regardless of economic need) and [...]
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Yesterday I hastily posted about the USDA’s proposed new regulations for school food, but because I was burdened with a lengthy To-Do list and a doctor’s appointment that ran late, I don’t think I did this topic justice. So let me lay it out in terms that will get your attention: The new school food [...]
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Well, the first annual “Janet Poppendieck Day” on TLT is drawing to a close. The festivities are winding down, and the clean-up following the ticker-tape parade is underway. Tomorrow I’ll resume the usual kid-and-food blogging, but for now I’ll leave you with one last bit of JP goodness – her recent interview with Charles Stuart Platkin, [...]
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