TACO BAR
Seasoned Beef Taco
Lettuce, Cheese, Salsa, Sour Cream
Hard or Soft Shell
Black Bean and Corn Salsa
Orange Rounds
The tacos are 100% ground chuck with lettuce and a low-far govt cheddar cheese. The salsa is actually organic by Green Mountain and the ingredients are: tomatoes, fire-roasted chiles, onions, tomatillos, jalapeno peppers, pasilla peppers, apple cider vinegar, cilantro, parsley, garlic, sea salt, spices. Tacos shells are hard, yellow corn shells but I have not gotten the ingredients yet.
Black bean and corn salsa plus fresh orange slices.
Sea Cliff Nutrition Committee. The Apple People
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Welcome Back to School Lunch!
We are very excited about the improvements we saw in our school's lunch last year including more fresh fruits and vegetables, more foods made from scratch, a lot less HFCS, better hot lunch alternatives and of course the salad bars!
Thanks to our food service dept and the recently reauthorized Child Nutrition Act, we can look forward to even more changes this year. First up -- free drinking water is now available in our cafeterias.
Sea Cliff's nutrition committee will also be working on several ideas:
- raising funds for and providing more fun,, interactive opportunities for nutrition education
- Looking at the need for breakfast in our school
- Encouraging students to try and eat more fruit and vegetables sides with their lunch
- Promoting backyard gardens and fresh, local vegetables with small "farmer's market" tables
Join us! Our committee will have a sign up sheet at Back to School Night.
Thanks to our food service dept and the recently reauthorized Child Nutrition Act, we can look forward to even more changes this year. First up -- free drinking water is now available in our cafeterias.
Sea Cliff's nutrition committee will also be working on several ideas:
- raising funds for and providing more fun,, interactive opportunities for nutrition education
- Looking at the need for breakfast in our school
- Encouraging students to try and eat more fruit and vegetables sides with their lunch
- Promoting backyard gardens and fresh, local vegetables with small "farmer's market" tables
Join us! Our committee will have a sign up sheet at Back to School Night.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
What's for Lunch - Thurs., 9/8
For the first day of school lunch, we're having:
French Bread Pizza
Market Fresh Veggies
Fresh Apple
These pizzas are not frozen but instead made in-house. For the pizza, the sauce is a Red Pack vitamin enhanced tomato sauce. The sodium at 140mg is much lower than we used two years ago. Here are the ingredients: Tomato Concentrate (Water, Tomato Paste), Sugar, Soybean Oil, Potassium Chloride, Onion Powder, Salt, Citric Acid, Spice, Garlic Powder, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Black Pepper, Vitamin E (DL-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate), Natural Flavor, Vitamin A (Retinol Palmitate). The cheese is a USDA commodity part skim mozzarella. Ingredients are cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes. The sodium is 240mg/oz - I think we use 2 ounces. It is made on white-flour bread.
The sides include a fresh apple and the best vegetables they can get this week.
Kindergarten parents: the school asks that you send lunch in with your kindergartner until Sept 19th. The process of negotiating the lunch line can be a little much at first.
French Bread Pizza
Market Fresh Veggies
Fresh Apple
These pizzas are not frozen but instead made in-house. For the pizza, the sauce is a Red Pack vitamin enhanced tomato sauce. The sodium at 140mg is much lower than we used two years ago. Here are the ingredients: Tomato Concentrate (Water, Tomato Paste), Sugar, Soybean Oil, Potassium Chloride, Onion Powder, Salt, Citric Acid, Spice, Garlic Powder, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Black Pepper, Vitamin E (DL-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate), Natural Flavor, Vitamin A (Retinol Palmitate). The cheese is a USDA commodity part skim mozzarella. Ingredients are cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes. The sodium is 240mg/oz - I think we use 2 ounces. It is made on white-flour bread.
The sides include a fresh apple and the best vegetables they can get this week.
Kindergarten parents: the school asks that you send lunch in with your kindergartner until Sept 19th. The process of negotiating the lunch line can be a little much at first.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
New Campaign to Limit Sugary Drinks
Visit their website to sign up to take the challenge, read the research on obesity and sugary drinks and find out what you can do.
The campaign implicates school lunch as well. For example, Watch this clip from Jamie Oliver's show filmed int eh LA school district on the stunning amount of sugar kids are eating and why we need to get rid of chocolate milk in schools.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Welcome Back to School!
Welcome Back to School, Sea Cliff!
Tuesday and Wednesdays are half-days so no lunch will be served.
But it is not too late to be thinking about school lunch -- and joining the Nutrition Committee. If you're interested in helping us improve our school's lunch and nutrition education, email Denise Rieger - Rieger (AT) optonline (DOT) net.
Tuesday and Wednesdays are half-days so no lunch will be served.
But it is not too late to be thinking about school lunch -- and joining the Nutrition Committee. If you're interested in helping us improve our school's lunch and nutrition education, email Denise Rieger - Rieger (AT) optonline (DOT) net.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Weekend Reading
Reading
Ready for school to start on Tuesday? Our school's lunch menu will be posted here at some point - all though it is not up at the time of this post. I'm excited to see the latest round of improvements from our hard-working food service staff.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Working group has put out these great tips on packing healthy school lunches.
Chef Ann greeted the Back to School season with this post on her blog describing the enormous problems with school lunch in our country and then posted this great description of what we need our school lunch to be over on another blog ..with a really long name.
I was interested in this description of a farm-to-school fair at a school in Massachusetts as pictured in the Brave New Lunch blog. Our school's nutrition committee is interested in doing something similar with a trial run taking place over the summer.
There's new research that probiotic yogurt could help treat anxiety and depression. Read this overview in The Economist.
Things to Do
Family Fun Day is this Sunday at Sea Cliff Beach thanks to the Sea Cliff Beach Committee. Then, after a long day of fun, stay for music by Tidal Groove and art thanks to the Sea Cliff Arts Council.
Raspberry picking at Fort Salonga Farm has begin. Call to make sure they have berries left.
From the The New York Botanical Garden website: open all weekend, including Monday, September 5—with a visit to Mario Batali's Edible Garden. Families enjoy daily gardening activities and cooking demonstrations that showcase kid-friendly recipes with the chance to sample and search for ingredients throughout the Family Garden. Explore gardening plots showcasing Mario’s favorite vegetables and fruits: Batali's Berry Patch; Babbo Beets, Beans, Garlic, and Greens Garden; and Otto Pizza Garden. Kids embark on Mario's Menu Mystery Scavenger Hunt, and daily cooking demonstrations highlight easy Mario recipes for you to try at home. Get more information on Mario Batali's Edible Garden.
Enjoy the long weekend!
Ready for school to start on Tuesday? Our school's lunch menu will be posted here at some point - all though it is not up at the time of this post. I'm excited to see the latest round of improvements from our hard-working food service staff.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Working group has put out these great tips on packing healthy school lunches.
Chef Ann greeted the Back to School season with this post on her blog describing the enormous problems with school lunch in our country and then posted this great description of what we need our school lunch to be over on another blog ..with a really long name.
I was interested in this description of a farm-to-school fair at a school in Massachusetts as pictured in the Brave New Lunch blog. Our school's nutrition committee is interested in doing something similar with a trial run taking place over the summer.
There's new research that probiotic yogurt could help treat anxiety and depression. Read this overview in The Economist.
Things to Do
Family Fun Day is this Sunday at Sea Cliff Beach thanks to the Sea Cliff Beach Committee. Then, after a long day of fun, stay for music by Tidal Groove and art thanks to the Sea Cliff Arts Council.
Raspberry picking at Fort Salonga Farm has begin. Call to make sure they have berries left.
From the The New York Botanical Garden website: open all weekend, including Monday, September 5—with a visit to Mario Batali's Edible Garden. Families enjoy daily gardening activities and cooking demonstrations that showcase kid-friendly recipes with the chance to sample and search for ingredients throughout the Family Garden. Explore gardening plots showcasing Mario’s favorite vegetables and fruits: Batali's Berry Patch; Babbo Beets, Beans, Garlic, and Greens Garden; and Otto Pizza Garden. Kids embark on Mario's Menu Mystery Scavenger Hunt, and daily cooking demonstrations highlight easy Mario recipes for you to try at home. Get more information on Mario Batali's Edible Garden.
Enjoy the long weekend!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
September is Hunger Action Month
September is Hunger Action Month and the charity Feeding America has set up a website at HungerActionMonth.org to help you figure out what you can do to help. The site includes links to the two food banks here in Nassau County and other information on hunger here where we live.
According to this site, over 250,000 people in our county are food insecure.
Island Harvest has a calendar of activities in Sept. here.
According to this site, over 250,000 people in our county are food insecure.
Island Harvest has a calendar of activities in Sept. here.
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