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Your Monday Kid-and-Food News Round-Up
Happy Monday, TLT’ers! I was out of town and had to let the blog languish a bit, so here’s a link round-up to kick off the week and get you up to speed: President Signs Epi-Pen Bill Into Law Back in...
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School Nutrition Association Seeks Roll-Back of Healthier School Food Standards
My colleague Dana Woldow has a new piece in Beyond Chron that’s well worth reading. In it, she takes issue with a position paper just released by the School Nutrition Association (“SNA”), the leading...
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School Nutrition Association Defends Its Position Paper Re: Changes to School...
Yesterday I shared with you a Beyond Chron piece by school food advocate Dana Woldow (“School Nutrition Association Pushes Fruitless Position“), in which Woldow criticized a recent position paper...
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One Mom’s Great Idea Brings Fresh Produce to Families in Need
Lisa Helfman A mutual friend recently introduced me to a woman named Lisa Helfman and, given our very similar backgrounds (Houston moms/lawyers with an interest in kids and food), it wasn’t surprising...
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More Republican Support for Bill To Gut Healthier School Food
I hope some of you have had a chance to read my “State of the Tray” piece published in Civil Eats last week, which asked whether the school food gains achieved by the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act...
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STUDY: New School Lunch Rules Increase Kids’ Fruit & Vegetable Consumption
Last month I wrote a piece for Civil Eats describing current and forthcoming efforts by various factions to modify or roll back some of the recent changes to school meals mandated by the 2010 Healthy,...
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Chef Ann Cooper: Why (and How) We Should Stay the Course on Healthier School...
Earlier this year I wrote a piece for Civil Eats called “State of the Tray” in which I explained how some of the key gains of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) may be rolled back when the Child...
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School Food Professionals vs. Kids: How Did It Come to This?
When I walked into my first Houston ISD School Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I knew next to nothing about school food except that my district seemed to be doing a pretty poor job of...
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My Interview with Dora Rivas, Former President of the School Nutrition...
Dora Rivas, Executive Director, Dallas ISD Food & Child Nutrition Services Several weeks ago, 19 past presidents of the School Nutrition Association (SNA) made news by sending an open letter urging...
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Will Change in House Leadership Affect the School Food Debate? (And More...
With all that’s going on in the kid-and-food world these days, I’m getting sucked back into my old five-day-a-week posting schedule against my will! :-) Here’s the latest: SNA Asks For A Sit-Down...
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Military Leaders Urge Staying the Course on Healthier School Food
In 2008, a group of retired four-star generals, admirals and other senior military leaders banded together out of a growing concern that a significant segment of America’s youth are unfit to serve in...
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Book Review and Giveaway: The 52 New Foods Challenge
If we could somehow channel all of the collective thought, time and energy parents devote to getting kids to try new fruits and vegetables, I think we could solve most of the world’s problems in short...
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#Thanks4RealMichelleObama
You may have already heard about a new Twitter hashtag that’s making national news: disgruntled kids are taking photos of their unappetizing school lunches and sharing them on Twitter with a sarcastic...
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What She Said
One thing I love about being part of a blogging community is the way we can draw upon each other’s work and resources to advocate for our common goals. That’s how I felt when I read this recent post...
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School Nutrition Association’s 2015 Position Paper: Weaken School Food Standards
The School Nutrition Association, the nation’s largest organization of school food professionals, has just released its 2015 position paper. The release comes in advance of the 2015 Child Nutrition...
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Will the Celebrity “FNV” Campaign Be Co-Opted by Big Food?
Last week I applauded the new, celebrity-filled “FNV” campaign which is designed to promote greater fruit and vegetable consumption (“Celebrities Marketing Vegetables to My Kids? Bring. It. On.”) The...
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Casey Hinds and I Debate the Celebrity “FNV” Camapign
Last week I told you about a new, multimillion dollar effort from the Partnership for a Healthier America (the private sector arm of the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative) to promote consumption of...
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The Challenge of Getting Locally Grown Produce Into Schools
In the five years I’ve been involved in school food reform here in Houston ISD, I’ve seen my district have mixed success in serving locally-grown fruits and vegetables in our school meals. Early on,...
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Two More Perspectives on the “FNV” Debate
I can imagine that by now some of you are scratching your heads over the amount of virtual ink I’ve recently devoted to the forthcoming “FNV” campaign. To recap, this is the new effort from the...
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95 Percent of Schools Meeting the Healthier Meal Standards
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made an announcement last week that’s particularly important given current efforts in Congress to weaken school food standards relating to whole grains, sodium and...
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