I love getting the notes home from the district school lunch program. They always make me want to write letters and start teaching nutrition classes….to the federal government. Nothing lights a fire under a healthy food blogger like schools giving kids less fat and plenty of sugar! I’m over at the Attune blog today dishing [...]
Entries Tagged as 'school food'
School Lunch gets More Veggies but Ignores Sugar
September 20th, 2012 · Comments Off · Special Situations
Tags: healthy food·school food
Eat Well, Spend Less: 10 Tips to Pack Brilliant School Lunches (& avoid wasting food)
August 28th, 2012 · 35 Comments · Frugality
When you throw away food, you throw away money. When your kids throw away food at school, it’s like a hairline crack in your water jug – the liquid is slowly leaking out such that you don’t even notice, but nonetheless, your money is going out without a return. How can you pack the perfect [...]
Tags: back-to-school·Eat Well Spend Less·kids·lunch·lunchboxes·school food
Fixing School Lunch in Two Easy Steps
February 24th, 2012 · 35 Comments · Call to Action
How often do we hear that kids don’t eat their vegetables? It’s been a classic American icon since the advent of television, I’m guessing: the child sitting at the table, staring down the pile of spinach mush or Brussels sprouts on their plate, refusing to eat their vegetables and yet not allowed to leave the [...]
10 Minutes and Popsicles for Lunch: I’m Fed Up — Are You?
February 10th, 2012 · 26 Comments · Call to Action
Twenty years ago, I was waking up early to type, just like I am this morning. As early as third grade, my best friend and I wrote and published a “newspaper” for our class, reporting on such scintillating and crucial stories as who was sliding on the ice at recess (complete with illustrations…never a talent [...]
Free Printable: Juice Decoder
February 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition
(photo source) I’ve been running off at the mouth (fingers?) a bit this week about juice, and I wanted to distill some of the information down in a bite-sized portion. I wish I could create a “good/better/best” list for juice. I made a nice list for you – but unfortunately it’s “best/okay/bad…and worse from there.” [...]
Tags: beverages·juice·school food
Juice makes you pee your pants (and other reasons not to drink it)
February 9th, 2012 · 99 Comments · Food for Thought, Kids in the Kitchen, My Story
Juice is fruit, so it’s healthy, right? Not really. First, let me make clear that I’m talking about the juice you find in bottles or juice boxes in the beverages aisle at a grocery store, not the stuff people make at home with a juicer or the purchased equivalents that have to be kept cold. [...]
My Child is a Green Activist (& He’s Only Six!)
February 7th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Call to Action, Green Living
My son wants to change the world, one lunchbox at a time. When I got my copy of Fed Up with Lunch in the mail, he read the title and sighed, "Fed up with lunch? I’m fed up with lunch, too, all that Styrofoam." I wasn’t sure what he meant, but he explained that hot [...]
Tags: juice·kids·recycling·school food
