Today I’m turning The Lunch Tray over to Rochelle Davis, President and CEO of Chicago-based Healthy Schools Campaign. In her guest blog post below she tells us about Cooking Up Change®, an annual student school food cooking contest, the finals for which took place earlier this week DC. High School Chefs Are Rewriting the Recipe [...]
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I know I’m not supposed to be blogging daily anymore (to preserve my health and sanity), but it just doesn’t feel right not to share with you some of the many interesting articles and links that come across my screen at a rapid clip each day. Lately, though, I’ve been playing catch-up on life – [...]
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It’s one of those weeks when the school food news is coming in so fast, I can’t keep up! Here’s a quick round-up of articles of interest: A Fourth-Grader Goes Undercover in the Cafeteria – Are His Findings Accurate? Many of you have already seen on TLT’s Facebook page today’s New York Times blog account of a [...]
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I’m emerging from my blogging vacation to share some big news in school food. The USDA has just announced that, at least for the remainder of this school year, it is no longer requiring that districts comply with the weekly caps on grain and protein servings instituted this fall as part of the agency’s school [...]
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Dana Woldow, San Francisco school food reformer and founder of the school food advocacy website PEACHSF, has a new article this week that I wanted to share. It boils down for the average reader how the pending Farm Bill reauthorization may adversely impact school food. What’s the connection between the two? First, the Farm Bill will [...]
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A few weeks ago, in the midst of the intense backlash against the new, healthier school food regulations, I received a reader comment on The Lunch Tray’s Facebook page that I’ve been meaning to share with you. The reader describes how her school district took less healthful items off the lunch menu, which most of [...]
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For TLT’ers in the Houston area, please check out my post on today’s Spork Report with details of an exciting line-up of Food Day events tomorrow night, including a panel discussion (in which I’m participating) on school food. Hope to see some of you there! Do You Love The Lunch Tray? ♥♥♥ Then “like” The [...]
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I’m excited to share with you today a new children’s book all about one of TLT’s favorite topics, school food. Written for children aged 9-12, What’s For Lunch?: How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World looks at meals from Kenya to Afghanistan, Russia to Brazil. But the book is more than just a collection of interesting photos; rather, author Andrea [...]
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I hope I’m not exhausting you with posts about the new school meal regulations, but these rules impact the diets of millions of American children every day and seem worthy of in-depth discussion on any blog devoted to “kids and food.” Today I want to share an excerpt from an email I received from “Wilma.” [...]
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Every now and then I get a comment from a TLT reader that I want to highlight in a separate blog post so that more of you will see it. That was the case with this account from a public school teacher named Brian. Please read on: I enjoy this blog and read it regularly [...]
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