Obama Brings Up a New Side of School Lunch: Student Taste
President Obama has been talking about school lunch a lot lately, but last week he touched on a new side of the issue. In response to a question about healthy eating at a forum on health care, Obama brought up what I see as one of the biggest obstacles to ...
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August 24, 2009
The School Lunch Top Ten
The NPD group, a market research firm that tracks Americans' eating habits, has put together a list of the top 10 foods children ages 6 to 12 eat for lunch at school. The good news is that fruits and vegetables are both in the top five. The bad news is ...
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August 18, 2009
Legislation Update: A Five-Point Plan to Improve the Child Nutrition
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn outlined a five-point plan this week to improve the Child Nutrition Act, and four of those points deal with school lunches. Here's what's on the (lunch) table: 1. Access to Free Meals: Currently, the children are eligible to receive a ...
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August 14, 2009
Obama Discusses School Lunch and Mangoes With 11-Year-Old Reporter
Eleven-year-old Damon Weaver loves mangoes and French fries, and if he had his way they would be part of every school lunch. That's what the student reporter from Florida told President Obama during an interview on Thursday. Weaver interviewed Vice President Biden during the 2008 presidential campaign and has been ...
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August 13, 2009
PCRM’s Controversial School Lunch Campaign
The newest controversy in school lunch centers around a new ad campaign by the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine. The Washington DC nonprofit has been advocating vegetarian school lunch options and is now drawing fire — from bloggers, activists and the White House too — for targeting the Obama daughters ...
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August 11, 2009
A Call to Put Away the Lunch Box
I get Google Alerts about blog posts and articles that mention "school lunch," and lately the emails have had lots of links to stories about how to pack a healthy midday meal. I've been getting alerts about everything from packable recipe ideas to the latest stylish lunch boxes. All of ...
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August 11, 2009
When Serving Healthy Food Means Taking a Risk
It's truly sad that, these days, schools have to take a gamble to serve healthy food. The latest illustration of that comes from an editorial in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, which describes the district's new meal program as "ambitious — and risky." Santa Cruz City Schools recently hired a new meal ...
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August 4, 2009
Jamie Oliver Heads to West Virginia to Reform School Lunch
British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has picked a city for his new U.S. reality TV show. Starting this fall, Oliver will work with local officials to bring healthy food to America's fattest city: Huntington, West Virginia. He has his work cut out for him. Huntington and the surrounding rural counties boast ...
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August 3, 2009
How the USDA Helped Bring Processed Food to School Lunch
Most adults don't have glorious memories of school lunch. It was sloppy Joes, shepherd's pie, spaghetti with meat sauce, and it was usually on the bland side. But the food wasn't bad, and it was almost always cooked from scratch by an army of school lunch ladies. How things have changed. A few ...
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July 30, 2009
Corn Refiners to Ann Cooper: Keep HFCS in Lunch
The Corn Refiners Association really has its eye on school lunch these days. For one thing, the association was one of the sponsors of the School Nutrition Association's 2009 national conference (posters throughout the hall read, "High Fructose Corn Syrup: Making Healthy Foods Affordable for America's Schoolchildren"). The association is ...
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July 27, 2009
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