school-lunch

What YOU can do to green your child’s classroom

Posted by The Green Mama on Sep 03, 2010
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The first day of school: it is a blessing and a challenge.  When your child is at home, it seems easier to be in control of their safety. Then one day your child goes off to their first day of school (think cute little back pack and a last wave as they disappear through the door) and everything changes. “My teacher said...” becomes a routine saying at home and all of the sudden your baby is demanding that you start recycling.

How safe is your kid's school lunch?

Posted by The Green Mama on Sep 02, 2009
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It’s back to school time again and do you know what your kid is eating? Chances are if she is eating the school lunch, you don’t. Behind the heading of “hamburger with fries,” “pizza with vegetables,” is a dirty little secret that might be harming your child.  (Yes, this is a re-post, BUT school lunches are one of the top green issues facing parents and children when going back to school.)

Milk: Does it do your child’s body good?

Posted by The Green Mama on Sep 02, 2009
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Milk is a $20-some billion industry.  Millions of dollars are spent by dairy producers and processors to advertise milk through such campaigns as Got Milk? and Milk: It does a body good.  What, however, has been the human cost of making milk into big money?

Don't just sit-in EAT-IN for healthy school lunches

Posted by The Green Mama on Aug 28, 2009
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Been to an Eat-In recently?  Wonder what it is?

An Eat-In is a new take on the grand old tradition of sit-ins, and being used today to bring awareness to the devastating effects that poor nutrition, and specifically, inadequate, unhealthy, and additive-full school lunches are having on children.  The Eat-Ins are sponsored by Slow Food USA.  And whether or not you make it to an actual Eat-In in your community the idea is easily do-able wherever you are: sit down with your children, your friends, or your co-works and eat a healthy meal.  And then, sign the petition to get a Child Nutrition Act that will actually get nutritious food to children in schools.

Feeding Families Better

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BACKGROUND ON THE ISSUE

First, there was the contaminated spinach from California; and then report after report of contaminated foods from China, everything from deadly pet foods to dried fruits laces with illegal pesticides and sea food laden with banned antibiotics; and then videos of dying cows rolled by forklift to slaughter and the ensuing recall of 143 MILLION pounds of beef. In the U.S., according to 2000 numbers, more than 5,000 people die every year from food-borne illnesses.  Another 76 million become ill and 325,000 are hospitalized.

The School Lunch Drama Continues

Posted by The Green Mama on Dec 10, 2008
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When I was young, my family was poor. I ate the school lunch because I got it for free. Though it was rarely my only meal of the day, it was often my main meal of the day. Still, I remember when I was 7 years old biting into the hotdog on my tray and my best friend telling me, “Do you know what that is made out of?” Hotdogs were the first food that I gave up out of principle.

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