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Guest blog: French Kids School Lunch Project

May 14, 2012 at 9:57 pm in Guest Blogs, School Lunches

There is no kids’ food in French school lunches. Don’t believe me? I’m not surprised—given what most people believe to be the average school lunch that our kids eat. French kids eat very differently at lunch: tasty, healthy, scratch-cooked, three or four course meals every day. And they do this for an average of $3 [...]

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“Just pack!” and other ridiculous notions

April 16, 2012 at 10:37 pm in Packed lunches, School Lunches

Turkey burger with daiya cheese; bread and ketchup; brownie; pears; carrots and broccoli; fruit smoothie When people oppose school lunch reform, one of the comments I hear is “Parents should just pack a lunch for their kids.” If I hear that in the next week, I will have to hold myself back from laughing maniacally in [...]

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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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Your homemade lunch sucks! Eat some nuggets!

February 15, 2012 at 9:55 pm in News, School Lunches

It’s a stock photo, but aside from the nuggets and the chocolate milk this lunch looks good to me — there’s fresh fruit and raw veggies! (photo credit) I’m sure many of you have already heard about the story of how the a child’s packed lunch was deemed “unhealthy” and the student was given a chicken [...]

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News: New School Lunch Regulations

January 26, 2012 at 10:27 pm in News, School Lunches

Why is it that I’m always out of pocket when the “big” news items hit? I have had limited internet access over the past couple days as I was briefly out of town. Anyway, I’m finally digging into the information that Michelle Obama announced in conjunction with the USDA and what it all means. New [...]

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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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Puerto Rican School Lunch

January 11, 2012 at 7:00 am in Guest Blogs, School Lunches

Fresh orange, white rice, garbanzo beans with pumpkin, seasoned pork that has been steamed & cooked in its juices, canned corn and carrots and chocolate milk Back in November, a reader (D. Orsini) sent in the above photo of a school lunch from Puerto Rico and gave permission for me to share it with my [...]

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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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