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American Lunchroom
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The Lunch Box Blog
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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What are our kids eating for lunch? Blogger/teacher Mrs. Q started answering this question by eating school lunch every day for a year and documenting the effort on her blog: Fed Up With Lunch. The site went viral in short order, and now Mrs. Q has over 109,000 page views and a small army of “followers”. But Mrs. Q isn’t the only one documenting school lunch, a new site American Lunchroom invites you to send in pictures of school lunches from your own neck of the woods. The submitted photographs give a broad view of the situation on the ground, and although there are some bright spots, like the Chicken Salad from Edmond Oklahoma (lunch #19), the pictures mostly confirm what we already suspect. School lunches are in dire need of increased funding, and public awareness is a huge part of this effort. The more we see what are children are actually eating, the more political will we can generate to affect change. So drop in on your kids class and submit a photo of what they've been eating !
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photos via American Lunchroom
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There are so many efforts contributing to the movement of healthier children - thank you! Our products are a positive prompt that is fun and easy for children to use. Color-coded bracelets are worn by children to track their eating and exercise decisions throughout the day. Instead of reaching for a soda we remind them to grab water. They can move a band when they reach for an apple instead of a bag of chips! Let's make HEALTHY a HABIT!
www.habitwise.comAs a district who is having major finacial problems, is it possible to make a switch to fresh, natrual lunches without increasing budget cost? The food served at our school as you can see in the link provided
http://www.cfisd.net/dept2/food/default.htm meets the standards for nutrition set by the Food Service Department, yet many children in the school have weight problems and others do not even eat the meals provided by the school. The food is not very appetizing, and it is not a unusual to see pools of oil floating in the pizza, wilted pre-packaged vegetables, stale bread, and children resorting to asking their friends to buying them extra food from the snack bar (since the district has a limit on how much junk food each child can eat per day). I, as a parent, and emailing you this with my child's school email and Instructorss name provided, so hopefuly you can help her address some of the issues I have brought up, as well as circulate the information around the district.
Thank You,
Nury Whitford