As you may know from the many times I link to her writing on TLT’s Facebook page, Dana Woldow of PEACHSF (Parents, Educators & Advocates Connect ion for Healthy School Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily in San Francisco, in which she tackles all manner of food-related topics, [...]
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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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Recently I did some housekeeping on The Lunch Tray by dividing up my “blog roll” (the long list of links down and to the right) by topic, so if readers are specifically looking for help with family dinner or need sources for food policy information, they’ll know right where to go. Within the important new [...]
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Sometimes a blogger bites off more than she can chew: I promised to review Kate Adamick’s book Lunch Money over the summer but it’s taken me longer than expected to get through my reading pile! But I did finally have time to read Lunch Money and I’m glad to tell you about it here. For those who [...]
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The controversy over the new school food calorie limits is intensifying. Just to bring everyone up to speed: the old school food regulations only had calorie minimums, which made sense given the National School Lunch Program’s original purpose of combatting childhood malnutrition. Now in an era of childhood obesity, the new lunch regulations provide both [...]
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The Sunday Houston Chronicle had a really nice feature story about me and The Lunch Tray! You can read the full piece here. I want to thank the reporter, Claudia Feldman, for taking time to speak with me about issues I — and most of you – care so much about: trying hard to feed our [...]
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Today’s New York Post has a story (in which I’m quoted) about eighth grade students in Queens who, due to school cafeteria overcrowding, will be required to eat their “lunch” this year at 9:45am. Not surprisingly, their parents are howling. It’s easy to criticize ridiculously early lunch hours (who wants to eat roast chicken before 10am, a mere [...]
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Most of us now have our kids back in school or we soon will. And for some parents, that means returning kids to classrooms rife with unwanted candy rewards, food-based classroom birthday celebrations, junk food sold “a la carte” in the cafeteria, vending machines with sugary juice and sports drinks, and highly processed, chemical-laden school [...]
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The Huffington Post reported yesterday that the story of Jamie Oliver’s fraught attempt to improve the school food in Los Angeles USD, documented on his Food Revolution show last summer, is going to be adapted into a feature-length movie. Ryan Seacrest (producer of the Food Revolution show) will be a co-producer of the film, [...]
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Sorry to have been AWOL these past few days – this blogger has been seriously under the weather! :-( But I’m back to work today and wanted to share with you another solid article from Dana Woldow, the school food reformer in San Francisco USD. In this piece she asks, “What Is a School Food [...]
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