Happy Food Day, TLT’ers! In the past we’ve celebrated this day with a “virtual progressive dinner party” hosted by me and several food blogging friends. I’m sorry we didn’t get our acts together this year for another party, but one of those fellow bloggers, Brianne DeRosa of Red, Round or Green, has come up with [...]
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I just looked at the calendar and realized that September – the designated month for TLT’s “It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch” series — is almost over. How on earth did that happen? Well, get ready for a lot of lunch-packing resources and information in the next few days! (And yeah, I might drift [...]
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Welcome, TLT’ers, to the 2012 edition of “It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch!” For newcomers to this blog, this is my third annual series of posts, shared on an ad hoc basis throughout the month of September, designed to help parents with the sometimes challenging task of packing healthy and creative school lunches [...]
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In keeping with my goal of bringing new voices to TLT this summer, today I’m pleased to share a guest blog post from Brianne DeRosa, blogger at Red, Round or Green. The subtitle of RRG is “just trying to get everyone fed,” and Brianne’s blog documents her efforts to do just that “with as [...]
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LFTB posts worth reading from the last few days: A beef processor which makes LFTB files for bankruptcy. Food Safety News has more. ABC’s Jim Avila and Appetite for Profit‘s Michele Simon go right after BPI’s safety claims. Iowa governor Terry Branstad, who has called for a Congressional probe of the “smear campaign” against LFTB, sends a letter to fellow governors seeking support [...]
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I’ve don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions but for some reason this year I couldn’t stop making them, coming up with lofty goals for almost every aspect of my life. (I figure if I keep even a quarter of these resolutions, I’ll be a greatly improved individual.) Here are my 2012 food-related resolutions; at the [...]
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The Plain Dealer‘s Cleveland.com site and other media outlets report today that a 200-pound eight-year-old has been removed from his Cleveland Heights, Ohio home and placed into foster care due to an alleged failure by his mother to follow doctor’s orders to address his obesity. According to The Plain Dealer report, the child originally came to [...]
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Following the lead of other bloggers and writers in the past few days, I thought I’d share my list of some people (and organizations) for whom I’m truly thankful . . . . People Who Inspire and Challenge Me to Be a Better Blogger Janet Poppendieck, author of the excellent Free for All: Fixing School [...]
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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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As our virtual, progressive dinner party in honor of Food Day continues, be sure to check out these lovely entrees from Brianne DeRosa of Red, Round or Green. They both look so good (that woman can cook!), and you’ll get a chance to win a free DVD of Food Inc. just by leaving a comment on her post. [...]
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