tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46058412202319892842024-02-07T02:32:31.963-08:00Kidzfood The Healthy School Lunch ProgramOrganic vegetarian meals with an emphasis on locally sourced ingredients are made and delivered fresh, and brought to you by KidzFood! @ The Bread & Roses Cafe.
Lively, bright, healthy kids... our ultimate goal.<b>Marg Ann Roorda</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07012306917133979197noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605841220231989284.post-41831046410642001332009-11-25T10:25:00.001-08:002009-11-25T10:25:39.492-08:00UpdatesHello all<br />
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Kidzfood is going through some design changes at the moment, but an improved site should be up soon!<b>Marg Ann Roorda</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07012306917133979197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605841220231989284.post-65769008955478995892009-11-25T10:21:00.000-08:002009-11-25T10:24:39.204-08:00Read Katrina Simmons' Hamilton Spectactor article about KidzFood!You'll find Katrina's upbeat and informative article at: <a href="http://www.thespec.com/article/392895">http://www.thespec.com/article/392895</a><b>Marg Ann Roorda</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07012306917133979197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605841220231989284.post-80056662314267106152008-12-08T10:09:00.001-08:002008-12-08T10:11:15.484-08:00Stay Tuned for a Christmas Message!Hello Fellow Kidzfood participants,<div><br /></div><div>We've been some time getting our Blogging Act together, but later this week, new Kidzfood managers Marg Ann Roorda and Lisa Bakody will be sending you holiday greetings and laying out the next few months of our exciting, expanding Kidzfood program.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for growing with us!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><b>Marg Ann Roorda</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07012306917133979197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605841220231989284.post-87391678038742023692008-09-17T07:37:00.000-07:002008-09-17T08:04:02.326-07:00KidzFood! in Transition<span style="font-family:arial;">Hello Kidzfood participants!</span><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">First, apologies are in order for the lateness of this blog update. As many of you know, the Kidzfood program has been undergoing some important changes the past few weeks. Chief among them is that Bread and Roses and KidzFood founder Karen Burson has started work at Environment Hamilton as their Eat Local Program Coordinator. Karen brings her amazing creativity and passion for food to this new position, and will no longer be involved on a day-to-day basis in the projects she started with the Sky Dragon Coop. Karen is still a director of the Sky Dragon board and will continue to associate with the Coop and its projects in her new job. Karen has the best wishes and full support of everyone at Sky Dragon as we carry forward her legacy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Taking over for Karen is Bread and Roses Executive Chef, Marg Ann Roorda. Marg Ann is doing a great job filling some pretty big shoes, and brings years of food service, management and business experience to her new role of managing KidzFood and the Bread and Roses Cafe. Marg Ann will be directly overseeing KidzFood, and will soon be training another staff person when the lunch program expands to additional schools in October.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">That's right, Kidzfood is growing! Taking the lead from the innovative parents and teachers at the Dundas Valley Montessori School, more area schools are now choosing the healthy organic lunch alternative. In order to accomodate the expanded program, KidzFood will have its own dedicated kitchen on the second floor of the Sky Dragon Centre. As the kitchen renovations are completed we'll post pictures of the new facility, along with general updates on the evolving program.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">A</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:arial;">s of next week the KidzFood Blog will once more be functional and updated. We'll be posting weekly menus and accepting feedback from the most important people in our program - the kids and parents who make it work!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Finally, we appreciate your patience in this time of transition for KidzFood and the Sky Dragon Coop. As a grassroots, cooperative, non-profit organization, we are committed to sustaining and developing this healthy lunch program. We <strong>believe </strong>in good nutrition and supporting local organic farmers. We <strong>believe</strong> in creating social and economic relationships that nourish our community and our planet. Your support helps us move forward with these goals, and we thank you for it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Until the next update, happy eating!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kevin MacKay, Executive Director</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sky Dragon Community Development Cooperative</span><br /></p></span><b>Marg Ann Roorda</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07012306917133979197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605841220231989284.post-26934922888827442712008-06-26T09:25:00.000-07:002008-06-26T22:46:33.596-07:00The KidzFood! STRAWBERRY JAM Saturday July 19<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0xRvNX8mo-zSQmahd_VoAv12M_WQKeFSgpK9BFKs1SQmb7gDns6D9q9WUkyrAOSN_l1jEafoZitEAWpb92HfuykmnKVfae0cXipGpmMdfUChEQdOqG2ybxjCtI5yfnZAHBH7Z8xb7K8A/s1600-h/MPj04051600000%5B1%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216433110086972418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 182px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 304px" height="280" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0xRvNX8mo-zSQmahd_VoAv12M_WQKeFSgpK9BFKs1SQmb7gDns6D9q9WUkyrAOSN_l1jEafoZitEAWpb92HfuykmnKVfae0cXipGpmMdfUChEQdOqG2ybxjCtI5yfnZAHBH7Z8xb7K8A/s400/MPj04051600000%5B1%5D.jpg" width="182" border="0" /></a> <span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;">Come visit The Bread & Roses Cafe @ Sky Dragon to take part in our special brunch event on Saturday July 19 from 11 am to 3 pm.</span></strong><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">The KidzFood Strawberry Jam</span></strong> will be a fun-filled event for both you and your kids. Enjoy a hearty brunch buffet featuring some of our favourite vegetarian menu items and freshly made Organic Strawberry Smoothies!<br /><br />Join us for music, kids entertainment, our bouncy castle and MORE! Brunch costs only $5 for kids and $7 for grown-ups. <strong>Karen Burson</strong> will be on-hand to answer your questions about our unique healthy lunch program, Bread & Roses catering, and the many benefits of our KidzFood! healthy organic lunches, made by hand from locally grown ingredients and deliverd fresh daily to participating schools.<br /><br />We're going to eat, drink and be <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>BERRY</strong></span>!<br /><br /><strong>Please reserve since space is limited: </strong><a href="mailto:kcburs@yahoo.com"><strong>kcburs@yahoo.com</strong></a><strong> or 905-777-8102 ext. 2.</strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605841220231989284.post-75563727001886874712008-03-12T20:03:00.000-07:002008-04-20T16:21:56.868-07:00<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">KidzFood! For The Dundas Valley Montessori School</span></strong><br /><strong>From the Bread & Roses Café @ Sky Dragon</strong> ~ Hamilton, Ontario<br /><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAb38qDlMhR2_d0ooyJvxQMGodjZqbctvbWmmu5CNykPVqu2ok_rWj5LbFktpNCtjlzWxgCWFsvU23qiPYrd__oydLmizNzx3aTIjlItTl3TrN4SGwAcCUok6FshcaUYT1t8CKnMur5I8-/s1600-h/PH01780J.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177088754341394146" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="126" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAb38qDlMhR2_d0ooyJvxQMGodjZqbctvbWmmu5CNykPVqu2ok_rWj5LbFktpNCtjlzWxgCWFsvU23qiPYrd__oydLmizNzx3aTIjlItTl3TrN4SGwAcCUok6FshcaUYT1t8CKnMur5I8-/s320/PH01780J.jpg" width="188" border="0" /></a><strong>Introduction:</strong><br />We’re excited to be part of a revolution in school nutrition. The movement towards healthy school lunches is growing in strength and popularity. Increasingly parents are demanding that their kids be fed food to help them grow into healthy, bright, active and alert young people. Healthy food at school helps parents to do through KidzFood! what they themselves would want to do for their kids at home: emphasizing healthy, organic, locally grown ingredients in their kids’ lunches. This way of eating nurtures young bodies while it sustains our communities.<br /><br />Here in Hamilton, inspired by you, The Bread & Roses Café and Catering Company wants to bring a healthy lunch service to the Dundas Valley Montessori School. Working with you we will make the daily chore of providing a true homemade lunch for your children just one less thing for you to worry about in your busy day.<br /><br />With kid-friendly recipes from a variety of childhood health food recipe collections, a flair for popular flavours, and an eye to appealing colours and textures, we will offer the kind of meal that you would be proud to serve in your own home. We share your concern for the environment, and make minimizing any negative impacts of our catering services a constant priority.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">About Bread& Roses:<br /></span></strong><br /><strong>The Bread & Roses Café</strong> opened its doors in September, 2006 and his been winning friends (and a major national restaurant award)* ever since. Founded by whole foods chef Karen Burson, the café was dedicated to providing food that is healthy, tasty, and organically grown and/or locally sourced.<br /><br /><em>*The Canadian Organic Growers presented the Organic Hero award to the café as being “The Best Restaurant Serving Organic Food in Canada”, alongside winners in other categories, such as Chef Michael Stadtlander, journalist Jill Eisen, and Food Activist Ann Clark</em><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>About the Meals:<br /></strong></span><br />Each meal is nutritionally balanced and designed to appeal to the world’s pickiest eaters: kids!<br /><br />Every day at lunch time your child will be served a lunch made up of the following items:<br /><br />>A hearty vegetarian entrée<br />>Salad or other green vegetable and/ or fresh fruit<br /><br />The lunches will be served family style, on platters so that children may help themselves, and be encouraged to try new foods by watching other kids enjoying them. This style of service also minimizes the need for fancy lunch boxes or wasteful individual/disposable serving-ware. Their lunch will be served on real plates, with proper utensils.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Organic, Local, Freshly Made Food:<br /></span></strong><br />We believe in the primacy of organic food. Local food is important, but how that food is grown is a crucial issue in determining whether locally grown food is actually good for the kids. We talk to the farmers who produce the food we buy. We ask about what is sprayed and how often, and are satisfied with the answers provided by Hamilton Farmer’s Market stalwart family farm stand, <strong>Buttrum’s</strong>. We also have close ties to <strong>Plan B Organic Farm</strong> and <strong>Simpler Thyme Organic Farm</strong> because they’ve actually set up in our café to sell produce on Saturdays, and have been doing so for almost as long as the café has been in existence. We don’t follow the organic’s call blindly: imported, ‘monocultured’ organic food that has lost its colour, flavour and nutrients due to long-distance shipping is not the solution. All those miles of burned fossil fuels are not a good deal for our pocketbooks or the environment either!<br /><br />Local food has many advantages when you emphasize freshness and seasonality when choosing what to put on the menu each month. As guides for menu planning and purchasing Bread & Roses takes advantage of four main resources:<br /><br />>The advice of our local Organic Farmers<br />>The Foodland Ontario Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Availability Guide<br />>The good judgement and experience of our chefs<br />>You, the parents!<br /><br />We ask for and appreciate your input, every step of the way.<br /><br />A long list of commonly allergenic and/or unhealthy foods will not be used in our meals. These ingredients include processed white sugar, peanuts, tree nuts, and cornstarch. The school has provided us with a detailed list of items to be avoided, and avoiding those items will be part of the menu planning process for each meal served.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Minimizing Damage to the Environment:<br /></span></strong>How many of the city’s restaurants make composting their unusable food scraps part of their everyday functioning as a business? Bread & Roses brought regular green box pick-ups to King William Street in Downtown Hamilton, and is one of only a handful of restaurants in the city to operate a comprehensive recycling program. Ask around the next time you’re dining out… (ask staffers, not managers, if you want to hear the real story).<br /><br />Bread & Roses uses environmentally responsible cleaning solutions, and our disposable take-out containers and coffee cups are compostable.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Education:</span></strong><br />The potential here is enormous, everything from ‘lunch-making parties’ that would allow the kids to learn a new culinary skill or two; to potentially partnering with suitable community groups to create gardening experiences in and around the school; and perhaps out into the community at large. We’ve just started taking some steps forward…<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Community:<br /></span></strong>What brings people together like food? Special food related events or possibly a formal farm-to-schools education program could be created. Cooking from other cultures could be the basis of other events (or even simply a menu theme).</p><div align="center">***<br /><br /></div><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Sample Menus and a Recipe with Nutritional Breakdown</span></strong></p><p>Contact KidzFood! to receive a sample monthly meals-at-a-glance chart to find out what kinds of foods will be prepared for your kids.Contact Karen B:<a href="mailto:kcburs@yahoo.com">kcburs@yahoo.com</a> or 905-777-8102 ext. 2</p><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com