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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Happy Food Day, everyone! Well, it’s time to kick off our virtual, progressive dinner party in honor of the day. Let’s head into to the kitchen, where I’m making our first course. For tonight’s party, I knew I wanted to make something “autumnal” and also vegetarian. Celebrating Food Day means different things to different people [...]
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As you may know, next Monday, 10/24 is Food Day. Created by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and with an advisory board that’s a veritable Who’s Who of the food movement (Pollan, Spurlock, Nestle, Kessler, Brownell and many others), Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and [...]
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As part of our ongoing “It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch – 2011 Edition” series, I went to one of my fave bloggers, Brianne DeRosa of Red, Round or Green, for some much needed inspiration. And she didn’t disappoint! Here’s her guest blog post giving us all a “A Lunchbox Strategy Session.” And [...]
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So, it’s Day Four of the Houston ISD school year and, yes, I’m already looking for some lunch box packing inspiration. Uh oh! :-) Based on feedback from The Lunch Tray’s Facebook page, I know I’m not alone in despairing in front of those empty lunch boxes each morning, so I thought I’d bring back [...]
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