Hello and welcome back to School Lunch Confidential! In the vein of “better late than never” I am reporting on a lunch I ate a couple months ago at Meiners Oaks School on May 22, 2018.  By way of explanation, I would like to point out that we have had kind of a rough year here in Ojai. The destruction …

Hello and welcome back to School Lunch Confidential! As has happened for the past couple of years, I have realized that the first few months of the new school year is an incredibly busy time. What with back to school stuff, back to work stuff and in general trying to catch up after being slothful and relaxed over the summer, …

Hello and welcome back to School Lunch Confidential! As the 2016-2017 academic year winds down, I will be reporting on a lunch I ate on May 25th, 2017 at Mira Monte Elementary School. But first, a post-script from my lunch at Nordhoff high school in April.   My daughter, none too pleased with her characterization in that day’s blog as …

Hello and welcome back to School Lunch Confidential! This week I finally got myself organized enough to have lunch at Nordhoff High School. Unlike the elementary schools, one cannot just wander over there and eat lunch whenever the mood suits.  One has to alert them a couple days in advance so that Mr. Hall, the vice principal, can verify that …

Hello and welcome back to School Lunch Confidential.  Again this year I realize it is hard to make time to eat school lunch! I remember this problem from last year, where I didn’t manage to even eat school lunch once before December when I had some vacation. After the blur of the PTSD-inducing presidential election, the holidays, and some well …