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Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools

February 29, 2012 at 9:35 pm in Advocacy, Recipes, School Lunches

Last year the Center for Ecoliteracy introduced an amazing school food guide entitled, Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools. The cookbook is available for free download (how can you resist?) on their website http://www.ecoliteracy.org/cooking-with-california-food, but I was lucky enough to get it mailed to me to review. It’s a cookbook, people. A school food cookbook [...]

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Volunteering with Feeding America: A Little Time Goes a Long Way

February 1, 2012 at 10:07 pm in Advocacy, Happening Now, Mrs Q

A couple weeks ago I was able to volunteer at the Greater Chicago Food Depository with Feeding America. You can sign up as a group or an individual for a three hour Wednesday night volunteering session and it was perfect for me. The Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) is one of the largest food banks [...]

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My Babble.com Piece: 5 Ways Parents Can Improve School Lunch

January 19, 2012 at 9:21 pm in Advocacy, School Lunches

I wrote this for Babble.com and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please click over to read… 5 Ways Parents Can Improve School Lunch  

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Chicago public schools update

December 8, 2011 at 10:16 pm in Advocacy, The Food

When I revealed myself on October 5th, the day my book was published, I received a friendly email from nutrition services of Chicago public schools, reaching out to me and suggesting a meeting. I replied immediately that I would love to meet and chat about school lunch in the district. We finally coordinated all our schedules [...]

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Cooking up Change (Part three)

November 17, 2011 at 8:47 pm in Advocacy, School Lunches

The last and final installment about my series on Cooking up Change. Read the first and second part to get caught up. Back to the Bridgeport Art Center where the place was filling up with hungry guests. From North-Grand High School: “The NG Spiced Turkey Wrap, Sweet and Spicy Rice, Nine Treasure Salad”  From Manley [...]

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America’s Lesson Plan: Pizza is a Veggie!

November 16, 2011 at 8:33 pm in Advocacy, School Lunches

I’ve developed a visual that I’m going to use when I teach the new rules to my students, many of whom have special needs. I think my terrific graphic about sums up yesterday’s ruling by Congress to amend the regulations to continue to allow pizza to be a vegetable. I’m hoping my students will grasp [...]

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Cooking up Change (Part Two)

November 8, 2011 at 10:15 pm in Advocacy, School Lunches

On Thursday November 3rd I attended Cooking up Change, which is organized by the Healthy Schools Campaign. Cooking up Change is an event where high school students involved in culinary programs are challenged to create a healthy school lunch. From the Healthy Schools Campaign website: The contest challenges students to create a great-tasting school lunch [...]

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Guess who I had coffee with last week…

October 31, 2011 at 10:26 pm in Advocacy

I apologize for missing some blog posts some days and writing short blurbs others. I hope you don’t mind. I’ve been busy. A couple weeks ago I received an email that someone wanted to meet me. I worked with one of his assistants to find a time and location that worked. And that’s how I [...]

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