In a follow-up article, the Toronto Star reports that the food service company that once fed 75 day-care and Montessori schools supposed organic, kosher and halal meals has shut its doors.
It’s all very mysterious.
Whole Green Kids somehow managed to pull a fast one on schools and parents of children with allergies, and who follow faith-based food preparation traditions.
The provider of so-called ‘premium’ meals has apparently been moving shop over the past few months to avoid paying kitchen rent. Meanwhile the owner, Susan Blouin, lives in a $2 million home and drives a Porsche. Really? I mean really??
It’s actually all very disturbing.
I have a lot of faith in the good food movement. I pay extra for organic. I eat local. I push the ideal and do my best to convert friends. I also occasionally work in catering, and have great respect for reputable companies like Sublime Catering and Real Food for Real Kids.
And I think there is great potential for more good food to be available in our everyday, non-elite lives – because the general population is becoming more food-literate, consumers more savvy, and deadly e-coli outbreaks remind us we have to be vigilant about the quality of our food.
But this company is casting a dark cloud on my parade. And it pisses me off.
If you’re concerned about the quality of food being provided to your children, I encourage you to check out the claims made by the food service or catering company you use. Don’t assume they’re pulling a fast on you; as I see it, Whole Green Kids is the exception, not the rule. But you have every right to feel comfortable about the food someone else is selling you.
June 21st, 2011 at 2:30 am (#)
My son used to attend a daycare catered by RF4RK, many daycares are changing from them. 5 year olds don’t want to eat lemongrass fish and couscous.
My concern was I thought some of their menu choices were misleading. It took me months to figure out that ‘organic whole wheat squares’ were shreddies. PC Organic brand, but still cereal. A lot of their snacks were PC organic brand cereals.
I’m not sure a nutritionist has walked them through their menu planning, I never understood why lunch would be chicken with rice and then afternoon snack would be rice pudding. They need to take more care.