Jamie Oliver
School Lunch: Chicago Elementary Bans the Brown Bag
3:00PM 4/14/2011
With Jamie Oliver beginning his second season of Food Revolution, it's time once again to think about the healthiness of the food served in public schools. I know, groan. Not good, right?
The overall health of our kids is depressing; Jamie's famous tear-jerking scenes show kids whose lives have...
Carrot farmers want to convince young eaters to put down that bag of chips and pick up a pack of baby carrots. So, a new ad campaign will use weapons favored by the junk-food giants: flashy snack bags, video games, humor and YouTube videos.
Lunchables -- the packaged lunch that Jamie Oliver hates -- is kicking off a program to give 50 classrooms across the country field trips with free admission Saturday for kids at five museums if they arrive early enough to get the limited freebie.
I don't know if Kraft, which makes the small...
Top 'Worst Snack' may be in your kid's lunchbox
3:00PM 4/14/2010
Lunchables may be mom-friendly and child-approved, but it's not exactly healthful nourishing food. In fact, Oscar Mayer's Lunchables (snack size) appears in the top four of WebMD's "Not-so-healthy snack" list, sharing top billing with such obvious selections as chocolate-covered doughnuts, mini...
Jamie Oliver's 'Food Revolution' can spread to you
2:45PM 4/13/2010
The crushing part in Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution comes half-way through the second episode, when the woman who administers the cafeterias for the Huntington, W.V. school district comes to Jamie to tell him that his first few delicious, fresh-cooked meals have cost twice the amount the processed,...
McNugget Backlash: Is Fast Food on the Run from Jamie Oliver?
9:00AM 4/08/2010
Streetwise British chef Jamie Oliver is shaking up America's ideas of what's good to eat, with his Food Revolution show set in one of the U.S.'s unhealthiest cities. The reality TV show hits home for many families and has set food bloggers a-twitter. Are food makers paying attention?
Call it "The Biggest Loser" meets The Food Network. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, the British voice of eating healthy, is the star of a new reality show that will try to get the denizens of Huntington, West Virginia, dubbed "America's Fattest City" to slim down by learning how to eat...
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