Looks like all that spam clogging your e-mail inbox can actually be worth something. Instead of sending in straight to the trash, forward them to nojunk@chipotlejunk.com. For every 100,000 e-mails Chipotle receives, it’ll donate $10,000 to The Lunch Box, an organization dedicated to helping improve school lunch programs so they serve healthier fare instead of the usual chocolate milk and french fries.

Want to avoid getting a daily dose of pesticides through your produce? While buying all-organic can be good for your peace of mind, it isn’t so great for your bottom line. So how do you keep your menu (and your finances) healthy? Most experts recommend sticking with organics for the so-called “Dirty Dozen,” a collection of foods that get doused in pesticides, including celery, strawberries, spinach, peaches, apples, nectarines, bell peppers, blueberries, cherries, potatoes, imported grapes, and lettuce.

Eating those organic and sticking with conventional produce for the rest of your diet can still save you from 80 percent of all pesticides. —Lisa Milbrand

Jamie Oliver has been leading a crusade against unhealthy food here in the U.S., but apparently, the fast-food companies are waging their own campaign to keep us in the plus-size department. To wit, the KFC Double Down, a sandwich that dispenses with the whole idea of actual bread—and instead slaps bacon and cheese in between two thick slabs of fried chicken. It’s a heart attack waiting to happen, with 32 grams of fat per sandwich—and yet, I’ve heard of lines around the block at KFC’s when the sandwich went on sale.

But perhaps that’s what the powers that be really want, given the fact that health insurers have huge investments in the fast food chains. Seems a bit odd to me that the people who are allegedly in the business of keeping Americans healthy (and of course, most importantly, keeping their company’s bottom lines healthy) are actually supporting the industries that are implicated in our current #1 killer: obesity.

What do you think about the Double Down—and the health insurers’ support of the fast food industry? —Lisa Milbrand

Friday night’s premiere of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution gave us a stark look behind the school lunch system in the most obese part of our most obese country in the world—a system loaded with pizza (for breakfast and lunch!), slurry-like “mashed potatoes” made of some sort of dried pellets reconstituted with water, and chicken nuggets. The show was one shock after the other—the family who ate entirely processed, brown foods for the week; the graphic demonstration of how chicken nuggets were made (by grinding down the worst bits of chicken, including the bone); the first-grade class who couldn’t even identify a tomato or a potato (the vegetable of origin for their beloved French fries).

But the scariest thing yet was that those types of school lunches aren’t only available in West Virginia. From my very informal survey, no school does a good job of providing healthy options for kids. One person in New York told me her kids could eat hot dogs every single day at lunch if they chose. Another Midwestern school sometimes counted corn chips as a vegetable. And my daughter’s school in New Jersey serves chicken nuggets and pizza each at least once a week (and often twice). In fact, when Jamie Oliver dumped a basket of nachos into his disgusting pit of school food at the end of the show, my husband couldn’t believe that any school would serve nachos—but our daughter’s school serves it as a “vegetarian” lunch every Friday.

And so at our institutions of learning our kids are learning to enjoy all these highly processed foods—and skipping out on anything remotely healthy. Couple all of this with cutting gym programs (my daughter only has gym once a week—we used to have it three times) and it’s no wonder that we have an obesity problem in our country.

I’m definitely planning to keep watching this show—if only to discover how to help campaign for better school food for our kids. In the meantime, My daughter will be brown bagging it every single day. —Lisa Milbrand

For many people, Oscar night is just a swanked-up version of the Superbowl—a perfect excuse to throw a party and invite a few friends over to dish about fashions and bet on the big winners. And of course, enjoy a few goodies while you’re doing it. (By the way, if you’re not heading off to hobnob with the Hollywood elite, join us to gossip and gape at the Oscar proceedings here on DailyLounge.com.)

So what do you serve on Hollywood’s hottest night of the year? Fortunately, several sites have you covered with menu ideas to wow your guests. You can start things out with some of the reader-supplied appetizer ideas at MixingBowl.com’s Oscar Night Appetizer Challenge. While some are a little strange (like the face-shaped cheese spread), there are plenty of elegant options out there—including swank Amritsari Macchi sushi rolls. Real Simple also focuses on the hors d’oeuvres, with a collection of make-ahead dishes that allow you to sit and dish with your guests.

Epicurious gets a little more daring, with menus inspired by each of the best picture nominees. But while some of the menus seem perfect for entertaining, a few feel like a little too much of a stretch—like the “Up in the Air” menu, featuring Continental breakfast staples like muffins, croissants and scrambled eggs.

At Martha Stewart, you can find some fabulous recipes for popcorn and other snacks—or wonderful dishes inspired by some of the most memorable food-related movie scenes, including ratatouille from the Pixar film and the Julie & Julia.

So you may not have the answer to the ubiquitous “who are you wearing?” red-carpet question—but you will be able to figure out what you’re eating! And don’t forget to join us for the chat. —Lisa Milbrand