Comments on: Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen: Part Three

By: Kam

Kam — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:35:16 +0000

Fat in salad dressing is good because it helps deliver the nutrients of the vegetables to the body. (Google full fat and salad dressing) The fat also helps you feel satiated when you eat the salad. Low-fat dressing on salad is not good. I’d be more concerned about the sugar.

By: ReesieKitty

ReesieKitty — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:50:57 +0000

My son is 10 and will eat all kinds of fresh veggies. I do think that having them cooked and served in an appealing way makes a huge difference.

But I also think the lunch lady offering and kid after kid refusing is interesting. Why are we allowing the kids to run the show here?

If ONLY healthy foods were offered, kids would eventually eat them. Sure, it might take a while to turn it around, but even with a baby, you need to offer a new food an average of 10 times before they even recognize it.

These kids aren’t even being given a chance on any level to make a healthy choice- there are too many alternatives and no reason to make the healthier choice AND- the veggies are nasty looking and smell funny and are mushy! No wonder they don’t want to choose them!

By: lostchef68

lostchef68 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:59:40 +0000

This one wasn’t so bad since you put the bulk of your focus on what they will or will not eat. You totally lost me when you started quoting studies that say kids will eat more veggies if the look more appealing.

Did I miss something?

You stated in the begining of todays article that you struggle daily to force your daughter to eat vegeatbles.

Does this mean you serve well overcooked drab, unflavorful vegetables?

Or just that no matter how it is prepared our culture has made it acceptable to dislike/hate vegetables unless smothered in cheese?

By: Carl Rollins

Carl Rollins — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:30:26 +0000

I suspect that when you have food service workers who themselves don’t eat vegetables and who do not know how to whip up a simple low fat salad dressing from scratch it might affect the quality of the food.

Also, in order for farm to school to really have a huge impact more off-site storage and processing faciliites, and in-school kitchens must be built. As you say Ed, it’s a question of will and money.