from the garden

Archive for September, 2006

Food Labels and Garden Exercise

Starbucks beverage: Caffe Vanilla Frappuccino® Blended Coffee, no whipped creamThese are the nutrition facts, from NutritionData.com, for a Starbucks Frappuccino, a popular beverage among the students in our June Jordan high school food class. This week we each kept a 24 hour food diary, and wrote down the nutrition facts for all the foods we [...]

September 15, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

School Food is Big News!

Food seems to be the hot topic of the minute. (I really hope it stays that way!) The San Francisco Chronicle has reported on healthy school lunches a lot lately (see photo at left). This morning the Chronicle printed the following Letter to the Editor, referring to a recent article on four individuals who are [...]

September 5, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed