On Friday, February 10, 2017, I became concerned about meals being served at the SIPI Head Start site because Moses and I were talking and he told me that SIPI had not put an order in. I found this particularly concerning since he had covered one day and had a difficult time putting together the meal. Food items were not available for the preparation of the meal, some of the food items on hand were outdated, and many had to be discarded. Since a food order had not been placed and lunch required fresh produce, I became curious about lunch for today. I arrived at 11:35 am and the children were almost finished with their meal, which I found rather unusual since lunch was at 11:30 am. The lunch served followed the menu, Mexican Pizza with refried beans and mozzarella cheese, shredded lettuce, tomato salsa and apple wedges. My concern was the quality and handling of the food products. When I arrived in the classroom the romaine lettuce had strong smell, at first I wasn’t sure what it was. When I went into the walk-in area and saw the case with the spoiled romaine lettuce leaves that had been torn off and left in the case I knew immediately what the smell was. I could not believe the lettuce was served to the children. Along with the spoiled lettuce …show more content…
An opened bag of potato chips was left on top. The hood above the range had lent dangling from the edges, evidence that it had not been cleaned in quite a while. According to policy, Hood and hood filters are to be cleaned on a weekly basis. The regular dishware was sitting on the table, with the eating surface side-up, while the children ate their meal on disposable dishware. No approval had been given and there was no acceptable reason for use of disposable. Debris was found at the bottom of both the reach-in refrigerator and the reach-in freezer. There was an ice tray in the freezer that was
The reporting party (RP) stated her son Michael Girard DOB: 2/13/68 is a resident living in the facility. The RP disclosed the facility does not provide meals that meet the recommended dietary allowance. An example of breakfast would be two donuts and a glass of milk; one hard-boiled egg. The residents were served hot dogs and can soup. The residents are not provided fresh fruits or vegetables. The residents are sent to their rooms at 6PM and receive cookies and soda as a snack. According to the RP the residents don't have access to the food. All the food is locked up and a resident named Dale has the only key. The residents do not have access to the microwave oven to warm their food. Additionally the residents have no access to the television and are forced to watch CNN or programs preferred by the caregivers.
My score on the PRCA-24 was a 100 which lands me in the high level of communication apprehension area. A further breakdown of my score is as follows: Group Discussion-26, Meetings-26, Interpersonal Conversations-24, and Public Speaking-24. Since I am a very antisocial person, I knew my score would be very high. I am so antisocial that I rarely order my own food at a fast food restaurant when I am with a group. This type of situations will only intensify as I begin public speaking, so I am in desperate need of management strategies. After reading the first few chapters of the book, I have produced the strategies below.
As a kid, I remember rushing out the door in the morning with one shoe on skipping while attempting to put the second one on with a flat tire. While I get in the car my mom says, “I’m late for work, we are going through the Burger King drive thru for breakfast.” Little did I know, there is not one good thing about the quality and nutrition of these foods, especially amongst kids who need all their essential food groups to grow. The next day I remember getting to school early, getting something to eat in the cafeteria before class. I glance down the line of kids, to be excited at the sight of pizza they were serving. I ask myself nowadays, did elementary schools really serve pizza for breakfast
Your appeal dated December 9, 2016, has been reviewed. The grievance response you received adequately addressed your complaint regarding the Certified Religious Diet (CRD) meal, which was served in a paper bag. Food Service Manager II Trish Rogers stated, “When the meals are prepared all of the food is prepared in a plastic container or is prepackaged and then placed in a brown paper bag and doubled sacked so the food would not have been contaminated. All sacks when they leave food service are placed in clean tubs and could possibly have been wet, but the food would not have been contaminated.” You failed to provide any additional evidence to support your claim. Your appeal is
Thirty one million kids nationwide eat school sponsored meals twice a day for a hundred eighty days and on average for twelve years. In this sense school lunches are an important and critical component of childhood nutrition and development. Yet these meals are highly processed and filled with chemicals and preservatives. School lunch rooms are essentially fast food restaurants; they unload shipments of frozen food then heat it up in glorified microwaves and serve it hot and ready. This is the same basic principle of fast food restaurants and people all know how terribly unhealthy fast food is for them. Still America feeds this toxic material to kids every day. This has been a tremendous issue for years but it is more devastating now than ever before.
Many cafeteria workers and staff members in 49 states have said many students do not want the governments new school lunches. Almost 7 out of 17 schools with have been seen with students throwing away some or all their fruits or vegetables, even the cafeteria workers are suffering under these new standards. About 60.3 percent of school districts want flexibility to be given to all schools to improve their ability to provide and give good nutrition without harm to any instructions and school district operations. Schools should know by now what is good for students and what is not, but they should not go overboard with the wheat and whole grain items. Another example that shows that schools should be responsible for providing a nutritious lunch is knowing that there are a variety of ways to make healthy foods taste good for school students. Healthy tasty food that will risk diabetes and obesity .One of the biggest reasons people do not eat healthy foods is because they feel it as if it will not taste good. The problem is, if your health food does not taste good, you are eating the wrong health food. Just because something is good for you does not mean it has to taste nasty, boring, or completely gross. There are plenty of ideas out there for eating healthy without making sacrifices on taste. “It is silly that people are worried about kids throwing things out. There are many ways to make
All across the nation, contemporary schools and students have worked to find a middle ground when it comes to dietary offerings. It is widely accepted that often times, students’ look forward what ‘lunch-time’ offers-- the glory of leisure and the freedom to fuel their bodies with whatever that they might choose. Each day, the cafeteria menu details a variety of choices ranging from the humble Caesar Salad to the traditional peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The diversity is endless, and yet, for some reason, students are still often displeased with the myriad foods. While it might be easy for schools to comply to these students’ demands, it is not justified to do so if doing so is ultimately detrimental to the already-degrading environment
Each and every daycare has their own menu for the children’s breakfast and lunch. Through my observations, I have noticed that the “Don’t Worry Childcare” has a variety of food selections throughout the month. For example, the children could either choose from fruit loops cereal, or frosted flakes for breakfast. The children’s snacks eaten varies every day as well. For instance, the children ate milk and cookies one day, and cheese crackers another day. An example of lunch would be, milk, chicken fingers, French fries, green beans, and mixed fruit one day, and spaghetti, corn, peaches, and bread another day. I observed the children eat ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, and peaches one day for lunch. All those food options seemed very delicious.
Children who eat from the national school lunch program are not receiving healthy foods. “Worldwide there are now more than 40 million overweight or obese children below the age of five” (Lang pg. 64). ”In most schools, the fare is a mix of chicken nuggets, tator tots, canned fruits and vegetables, chocolate milk that contains more sugar than soda, corn dogs and pizza pockets, Cheap food that cost less than a dollar a day” (Cooper pg. 25). Sugary foods cause students to sleep in class, students tend to go for the sugary and unhealthy food when they receive their lunch tray. Children are the people most affected by the chemicals used to produce and process food. They eat more foods than adults, which means that antibiotic and hormone residues in their foods collect in greater concentrations in their bodies. In addition, kids are eating foods that are unhealthy leading to addiction. "American children are increasingly enduring obesity and general...
There are several takeaways from my recent CSI class. One, which is topmost in my mind, is that respecting one another is crucial. Our class was made of different ethnic backgrounds, different religions and different ages. We had different ideas and opinions but were able to feel safe in expressing ourselves without judgment. This was largely in part to the instructor educating us on the importance of being open to others ideas at the onset of class.
The Everfi Course that I completed a couple months ago taught me many things about technology and many ways to stay safe, but overall what caught my attention the most was how every section of Everfi related to the topics we were learning in class. It gave me a more clear understanding of what the lessons we were learning in class. For example, I remember how in the middle of second quarter my class and I were learning about how to stay safe when navigating through the internet and social media. At first, I thought that I knew everything on how to be safe on social media, but turns out I didn't. This was when Everfi made me realize that there are many ways to stay safe that we as teenagers and adults. In the Everfi section where it all about privacy and safety I learned that just because your settings and pictures are set to private and my eyes only it doesn't mane no one can see it.This turned out to be more interesting then I taught because at some point in my life of my years of using social media there were times when I would put a post or picture so that I could only see it, and I thought that I was the only one that saw it.Based on what I learned on ever no matter how private something is people will always have access to your stuff unless the type of social media really has settings where privacy is really real.
The third weakness is the fact that food tests, inspections, and the detection of contaminants are taken seriously only after an outbreak of some food-borne diseases, food poisoning, or deaths. The increase in the number of food establishments or outlets such as cold stores, hypermarkets, and supermarkets reported by the Public Health Director has also made inspection and control mo...
The summer program I used to complete my observation hours for the course of the summer was a youth development program offered in Dawsonville, GA. called Next Generation. and their mission is to provide an opportunity for positive youth development as well as access to resources and opportunities many children otherwise don’t have access to. They aim to use this program to provide mentoring for the youth, tutoring for afterschool assignments, and offer many opportunities as a prevention program to the advancement of vulnerable youth. Next Generation is open year-round for students, and have a smaller program available for the summer. This is a youth program whose mission isn’t to “repair” the youth that are not excelling in academics, participating
How do food pantries handle their food? The food pantry has to make sure the food is kept in a locked room and the food only goes to screened individuals. They hav...
Cleaning Schedule; (has not shown), “Clean as You Go” policy did not apply in the food preparation place while it must be their biggest concern.