[Ed Note: Justin Gagnon is the CEO of Choicelunch, a school food catering service in the Bay Area. We somehow "met" through The Lunch Tray and I was taken not only with Justin's passionate commitment to providing school kids with healthy, delicious and sustainable meals, but also with his nuanced and clear-headed thinking about school [...]
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Just wanted to let you know that Amy Kalafa’s new book, Lunch Wars, arrives in bookstores today. For those of you who don’t know about Amy, she’s one of the famous “Two Angry Moms” (the other is school food advocate and frequent TLT commenter Dr. Susan Rubin, now of Better School Food.) Back in [...]
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As many readers know, I’ve been serving on a Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) to Houston ISD’s Food Services since its inception last spring. Like many large urban school districts around the country, HISD has outsourced its food services to a food service management company (FSMC) — in this case, Aramark. Because of the huge [...]
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Thanks to Off the Kuff, my favorite Texas political blog, I just learned of some important school lunch news happening right in my own back yard. The Dallas ISD announced last week an overhaul of its school lunch program, which will eliminate foods like nachos, potato chips and desserts from federally subsidized school meals. Hamburgers [...]
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One of the unexpected benefits of writing this blog is that suddenly I’ve become a one-woman clearinghouse for everybody’s favorite school food website, kid-and-food-related product, healthy kid-food recipe, etc. But why should I be the only one in the know? Today I’m starting a Lunch Tray tradition of periodically posting on a Friday some of [...]
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I’ve been at this blog for three weeks and have yet to discuss perhaps the most important issue going on right now with respect to school lunch — the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act pending in Congress. This hasn’t been an oversight – rather, I’ve been trying (as best I can between another looming [...]
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