The School Nutrition Association, the association of school food service workers, has proclaimed this week National School Lunch Week and tomorrow, October 12th, is “National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day.” On that day, parents are encouraged to to line up with a lunch tray, eat with your child, and talk to the people who [...]
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I’m a little late with the Notes From the Field feature this week — I guess all that Palin/school treats debate distracted me! At any rate, I popped into my kids’ lunch room this week to check out two new menu items, sweet potatoes and a frozen fruit bar: Unfortunately, as with the previously discussed acorn [...]
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I was so busy with the Lunch Line event last week that I was unable to get to a cafeteria to take photos, but my fellow Houston ISD/Aramark Food Services Parent Advisory Council member Stephanie Dubroff-Acosta was in her own child’s lunch room on Thursday. She was very happy with what she saw. Children were [...]
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On today’s menu, the kids had a choice of chili mac with a dinner roll or a chicken corn dog; steamed spinach; apple sauce; and the new banana chocolate chip cake the PAC tasted last month. Here’s a picture: I was most interested in seeing the steamed spinach, a new item on our menu this year. [...]
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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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I popped into my kids’ lunch room last week when they were serving a choice of two entrees: cheese pizza, or a chef salad with cheese, turkey, and what I believe was turkey ham (the salad didn’t have the otherwise required “contains pork” symbol on the menu). A picture of the salad is here: The [...]
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Last week I chose a random day to visit my children’s cafeteria and here’s what was being served: To the right is pepperoni pizza, to the left is Frito Pie, and both were served with mashed potatoes, green beans and an apple. (The child on the right had declined the potatoes and had purchased an [...]
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I visited my children’s cafeteria again on Friday. Here’s what was served: In case you can’t tell, the entree is a breaded chicken parmigiana cutlet served atop whole grain spaghetti, along with roasted potatoes, orange slices and a brownie. The kids I spoke with loved the roasted potatoes and urged me to try one. They were [...]
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I blog about kids and food daily, especially school food, but I’m embarrassed to admit that last Friday was the first time in a long while that I’ve actually been in my own children’s school cafeteria during lunch. I came that day especially to see the debut of the acorn squash that’s been much touted [...]
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