SHAC To Address HISD Board Re: Competitive Foods
Tomorrow morning the HISD School Health Advisory Council will be speaking at an HISD Board Workshop to address, among other student health issues, the sale of “competitive” foods offered on HISD...
View ArticleHISD “Nudges” Kids Toward Healthier Lunch Room Choices
At our last HISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Karen Webber Cullen, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, about an...
View ArticleUsing Social Media To Get Pink Slime Out of School Food
Over on my main blog, The Lunch Tray, I’m getting quite an education in the awesome power of social media. On Monday, the online publication the Daily reported that the USDA has purchased ground beef...
View ArticleUpdate on “Pink Slime” Petition: 5 Days, 134,000 Signatures
For those of you who don’t follow my main blog, The Lunch Tray, I wanted to update you on the Change.org petition started there last Tuesday (and discussed on The Spork Report on Wednesday) which asks...
View ArticleHISD Confirms It Does Not Serve “Pink Slime” to Students
In response to growing concern among Houston parents regarding the use of Lean Beef Trimmings, aka “pink slime,” in school food ground beef, Houston ISD released today the following statement: Alll...
View ArticleIs HISD Moving Toward Junk-Food-Free Cafeterias?
First, I’d like to apologize to Spork Report readers for letting this blog languish while I was deeply engaged in the controversy surrounding so-called “pink slime” (aka “lean finely textured beef,” or...
View ArticleHISD To Receive Twenty-One New Salad Bars This Fall
Earlier this year I told you about a visit to one of HISD’s three salad bars (aka “Fresh Express fruit and veggie carts”), this one located at Highland Heights Elementary. As reported in that post,...
View ArticleBack to School With The Spork Report!
I want to apologize to Spork Report readers for my long absence from this blog over the summer months. I’m back now and looking forward to using this space to talk about HISD school food and related...
View ArticleMe (and The Spork Report!) In the Houston Chronicle!
Just wanted to share this really nice feature story from yesterday’s Houston Chronicle about me and my two blogs, The Spork Report (republished here) and The Lunch Tray. Thanks to reporter Claudia...
View ArticleJoin Me Tomorrow for a Panel on School Food
In honor of Food Day later this month, Urban Harvest is hosting a series of events tomorrow which are likely to be of interest to Spork Report readers. Starting at 4:30-5:30 pm at John H. Reagan High...
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