In March, 2011 I was honored to be chosen as one of the winners of a Slate magazine anti-childhood-obesity crowd-sourcing contest. My submission, entitled “Legislate, Educate and Inoculate to Create Food-Savvy Kids,” argued that we need to fight the problem on three fronts: legislation to curb the food industry’s rampant advertising to children; widespread nutrition [...]
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One of the nicest perks of writing this blog is being contacted by authors to read and review their books. I can’t always get to everyone’s book — my nightstand stack is about to fall over! — but I do love sharing what I’ve read with you here. Today I want to tell you about [...]
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Way back in November I received an email from a teacher named Paul in which he defended (to a degree) the use of junk food classroom rewards. I wanted to share his email with you right after Thanksgiving, but then I took my month-long mental health break from blogging and Paul’s email got lost in [...]
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Here on TLT I’ve written often – some would say ad nauseum! — on the topic of kids being offered junk food by people other than their parents and what, if anything, we should do about it. But today I want to ask TLT’ers a question: How do you personally handle this issue? Do [...]
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Food activist Nancy Huehnergarth tweeted this troubling Dairy Reporter item last Friday, which indicates that the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) are asking the Food & Drug Administration for permission to add aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to the flavored milk sold in U.S. schools without certain front-label disclosures. [...]
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Happy 2013, TLT’ers! Thanks for sticking with me while I took several weeks off from regularly writing this blog. Before returning to our usual kid-and-food topics, I thought I’d go back and look at my 2012 food resolutions to assess my progress and help those with similar food goals for the year ahead. As a reminder, here’s [...]
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Yesterday a Lunch Tray reader wrote to me seeking advice about improving the snacks in her child’s public pre-school, snacks which sometimes include items like highly processed Uncrustables and chocolate milk. This reader was also disturbed that some classroom projects, like cookie-making, involved a lot of sugar. She ended her email to me with [...]
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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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In yesterday’s New York Times Sunday Magazine I spotted a short entry about the history of pickles which said they were once regarded by some as “indigestible green trash.” The piece also included this quote from a 1913 issue of McClure’s magazine: With the school children of the tenements pickles have almost become a morbid habit, like morphine [...]
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Most of you already know about my youngest child, a “selective eater” who is not [understatement alert!] so fond of the vegetables. Over the years I’ve shared with you my frustrations, my intermittent successes (including the recipes which have led to small breakthroughs) and my musings about the different approaches parents are often advised to [...]
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