A while back I said I had a big question to ask Lunch Tray readers. I’m a few weeks late in posting, but here it is: When we talk about “processed food,” what do we really mean? As someone who writes daily about food and healthful eating, this is a question I think about often. [...]
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Readers who are new to this blog may not be aware of a unique service offered by TLT — “Ask the Mystery Food Services Director.“ If you have any questions about school food — how things got the way they are, how to change something that bugs you — you can submit your questions to [...]
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Via Ed Bruske, aka The Slow Cook, I learned of a recent L.A. Times story regarding the possible role of carbohydrates, not fat, in obesity and obesity-related illnesses. I’ll leave the fat vs. carb debate to others, but wanted to share one rather startling fact from the article: One way to put our diet in perspective is [...]
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Over the weekend, Fooducate posted a great recap of an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled, Response of the Food and Beverage Industry to the Obesity Threat, by Jeffrey Koplan and Kelly Brownell. (Brownell, you may recall, has been discussed here previously and I recommend his book, Food Fight.) In the JAMA article, [...]
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Just to show you that I’m not on Chipotle’s payroll (contrary to popular belief, given many prior posts), I spread the word about their Halloween costume contest even before they’d sent a press release out. (My husband happened to be in a Chipotle and brought home a flier). But now that I have the official release, [...]
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I just love the folks at Chipotle. First there was their “No Junk” campaign that raised $100,000 for Chef Ann Cooper’s The Lunch Box. Now they’re sponsoring a “Horrifying Processed Food Product” Halloween costume contest to raise up to one million dollars for Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. Here are the details: Dress up as the scariest, [...]
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Over the weekend I finished former FDA Commissioner David Kessler’s book, The End of Overeating. Although the book isn’t about “kids and food” per se, I wanted to share some research he cites regarding children and what he calls “conditioned hypereating.” According to Kessler, we’ve known for a long time that infants and preschool children [...]
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A really interesting new study has found that digesting whole foods requires more energy than digesting processed food — even when the calories in both foods are equal. Subjects in the study were fed either “whole-food’ cheese sandwiches (multi-grain bread and cheddar cheese) or ”processed-food” cheese sandwiches (white bread and processed cheese), each with the [...]
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On tap for this week’s Buffet: an interesting coda to our discussion of vegetarianism; parents tell their children some whoppers about food; celeb chef recipes for the picky; beefing up safety standards for chicken; and a processed school lunch item to rival the dreaded Uncrustable. Another Reason to Think Twice About Eating Meat However you came [...]
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Lindsey, a regular Lunch Tray reader and commenter, says her child was recently served this array of foods as a snack at a summer art program: Lindsey writes: My daughter was on such a sugar high! I will most likely not send her again. To her credit, she did tell me what she had, and understood that [...]
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