Welcome

I decided to begin this blog because I wanted a forum to speak to the hard working school food service staff who serve breakfast, lunch, and snacks to our children every day.

This year, as Federal, State, and local governments struggle to increase revenue, and cut spending, the Child Nutrition Programs operating in our schools must more than ever work harder to bring in more money.  More importantly they must do this at a time when many are "screaming" about obese children and the need to focus on "wellness" in the school cafeteria.

School cafeterias are not responsible for overweight children.  In actuality, it is the home, the parent who is never home, the parent who doesn't have time to cook dinner, the shopping mall, and the family who never sits down to a "family dinner" that is responsible.  Good nutrition must be learned, not mandated and that learning must begin in the home.

It is for these reasons that I have decided to start this blog, in an effort to educate the school food service workers of this country, and to better inform all interested parties of the "plight" of the school cafeteria.  For some, my thoughts and comments will require a paradigm change, for other, it will proved support for what they have been saying all along.

I welcome you to this blog and invite your comments, and questions on any aspect of School Food Service.