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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As followers of TLT’s Facebook page know, last week I finally bought a Vitamix after lusting after one for years. My old blender (a wedding gift from 1998) could barely blend a banana without making alarming sounds and the motor smelling like it was about to ignite, so it’s been amazing to see what this [...]
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Continuing with our annual September series, “It Takes A Village to Pack a Lunch,” I wanted to share a thought-provoking post by Dina Rose that originally appeared on her blog, It’s Not About Nutrition. Even though Dina and I don’t always agree on every kid/food issue, I love the way she delivers sometimes unwelcome truths to [...]
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Most of you already know about my youngest child, a “selective eater” who is not [understatement alert!] so fond of the vegetables. Over the years I’ve shared with you my frustrations, my intermittent successes (including the recipes which have led to small breakthroughs) and my musings about the different approaches parents are often advised to [...]
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Somehow I missed the news back in May, reported on again in today’s New York Times Business section, about a partnership between the Birds Eye frozen vegetable company and Nickelodeon to encourage kids to eat more vegetables. As originally reported by Obamafoodorama: Birds Eye said it will spend a minimum of $2 million in 2012, 2013 [...]
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Many of you read an article in today’s New York Times on the growing ubiquity of “food pouches,” i.e., fruit, vegetable and grain purees for young children, packaged like this: I’d certainly noticed the recent proliferation of these squeezable foods in my own market, but with a 10- and 12- year-old at home, they didn’t make much of an [...]
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So, for any TLT newcomers out there who haven’t read about my struggles, I have one child, now nine, who has continually astonished me since age two with his stubborn stance against vegetables. While there have been little pockets of success over the years (remember the spinach malfatti and the “Miracle Mu Shu Vegetables“?), it’s [...]
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Those of us with kids who are, to put it mildly, a tad veggie-resistant often scratch our heads and wonder where we went wrong. In my own case, I’ve long been baffled by my son’s (now lessening, but still an issue) vegetable avoidance, given that we’re clearly doing a lot right. For example, my husband [...]
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I was rushing out of town last week and forgot to include in the Friday Buffet the promised results of the TLT reader poll on bribing kids to eat their vegetables. For those who missed the first post and the poll, I’d written about a study which found that young kids who were bribed with a [...]
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As reported by Good.is, a new study published in Pyschological Science has found that young kids who were bribed with a physical reward (in this case, a sticker) were more likely eat vegetables they didn’t like, even three months after the study, than kids who’d been lavishly praised for eating hated vegetables or those who’d been [...]
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