Monday, March 4, 2013
Braised turnips with cinnamon are a hit – for the most part – at Meadowbrook recently.
The vegetable being passed around the table didn't look familiar. It looked a little like a potato, but whiter and a little bigger, with a purple-pink color at one end. "Where'd you get this?" asked one boy. The turnip had come from the kitchen, but the bigger point was that it had come from under the ground. It was one of the root vegetables being served during R.I. Farm-to-School Program's R.I. Roots Week last month. The weeklong collaboration between Aramark (EGSD's food service provider) and Farm Fresh RI also featured parsnips cooked with carrots one day and red bliss potatoes another. The whole turnip didn't look anything like the braised turnips with cinnamon being served at Meadowbrook that day. And, truth be told, the braised …
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Meadowbrook Farms Elementary School
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Monday, December 12, 2011
The School Committee chairwoman stands by panel’s new “cold cheese sandwich” policy, but says the school department needs to do a better job informing parents on the payment protocol.
The School Committee’s decision last Tuesday to limit students to a cold cheese sandwich lunch after they have already received three hot lunches with no money on account has pointed up some confusion surrounding the prepay lunch program. Some parents (including this reporter) were completely unaware that all school children from first grade through high school are able to, essentially, “charge” lunch. According to school officials, students are given an i.d. number that stays with them through their school years. At lunchtime, if they choose to buy lunch, they punch in their number on a key pad that sits next to the cashier. Then they either pay for their lunch with cash or the cost of lunch is deducted from money a parent has deposited …
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Archie R. Cole Middle School
100 Cedar Ave, East Greenwich, RI
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Higher food, fuel costs eat up savings in personnel spending.
The EG School Department is in the third year of a five-year contract with Aramark Food Services and for the third year, it looks like the program will run a deficit. Aramark posted a $21,552 deficit at the end of April. The food program has run a deficit all year because of up-front expenses at the beginning of the year. That deficit has been narrowing and Aramark officials have said they expect the deficit to be about $6,000 by the end of the school year. That would keep the deficit under the $8,000 threshold built into the contract to protect the school department. Under the contract, any deficit under $8,000 will be swallowed by Aramark and not billed to the schools. But Director of Administration Mary Ann Crawford is doubtful that …
Nancy Thomas
7:27 am on Friday, March 8, 2013
Kudos for the turnip introduction! Looking at those trays - wow - the most unappetizing presentation of food possible....can't we just do better? more ›