Sentences with phrase «sna offers»

SNA offers a variety of resources to help members improve and sustain the health and well - being of all students.

I've heard it's one of the best conferences SNA offers.

This year, as part of the National School Breakfast Week campaign, SNA offered students the opportunity... Continue reading →

This year, as part of the National School Breakfast Week campaign, SNA offered students the opportunity to design their own breakfast t - shirt; the students were challenged to highlight the benefits of eating a healthy school breakfast with an original, creative illustration.

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This margin advantage gives SNA greater flexibility to offer discounts, rebates, or special pricing to remain competitive, while still growing profits.

Established in 1964, the Annual Fund provides SNA members with financial support for education and professional development, as well as to support research and offer scholarships.

SNA's leadership employs a public relations staff and a high - powered lobbying firm to make its views known, so we created the open letter to offer any interested SNA members a mechanism to express their concerns about those views.

Because regardless of what happens with SNA's desired one - year waiver language in the pending 2015 appropriations bill, the 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) is looming large and the SNA clearly views the CNR as its best chance to permanently roll back key HHFKA nutrition standards relating to sodium, whole grains, fruits and vegetables and a la carte offerings.

That possibility seems all the more likely since the SNA will not be taking the opposite tack, i.e., staying the course when it comes to healthy food and trusting kids to get used to the new offerings, but also asking Congress for more money to fund the law's requirements.

National LAC Meeting Scholarship In an ongoing effort to help its members develop professionally, the Georgia School Nutrition Foundation is offering a scholarship to attend SNA's Legislative Action Conference (LAC) 2017.

The SNA is also asking USDA to extend the comment period on the new competitive food rules which, if they go into effect as planned on July 1st, will represent the first meaningful regulation of snack foods on school campuses, everything from vending machine offerings to the items offered in cafeteria «a la carte» lines.

SNA is specifically asking Congress to revert back to 2010 standards that require only half of all grains offered to be whole - grain rich, leave sodium levels where they are until research proves further reductions benefit children and do away with the requirement that forces kids to take the half cup of fruit and vegetables with every meal, since most students end up throwing them away.

-LSB-...] by the SNA and their cronies in the food and drink industry, decided to offer them a waiver.

However, instead of offering struggling school districts more resources like needed equipment, training and technical assistance, Congressional Republicans, prodded by the SNA and their cronies in the food and drink industry, decided to offer them a waiver.

-LSB-...] instead sought increased funding from Congress, SNA CEO Patti Montague offered the same response I received months ago from SNA spokesperson Diane Pratt - Heavner, i.e., that the SNA «was told» that such a -LSB-...]

SNA strongly supports the new school meal limits on calories and unhealthy fats, mandates to offer students larger servings and a wider variety of fruits and vegetables, requirements that half of all grains offered be whole grain rich and initial sodium reductions.

The SNA has announced it plans to hold a «webinar» on the study Aug. 25 to examine findings from a sample of schools that purport to show that milk consumption dropped an average 35 percent when chocolate and other flavored milks were removed and students were offered only plain milk.

On its website, the SNA says the free «webinar,» entitled, «Keep Flavored Milk from Dropping Out of School,» is being offered «in partnership with the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP),» and that participants will «learn how to share» the study's findings.

Yesterday the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) AgMag Blog offered a much closer look at those corporate ties, as well as the role of SNA's lobbyists which, in addition to representing SNA, boast a roster of Big Food clients that includes General Mills, Kraft Foods, the North American Meat Association, the National Confectioners Association and the National Frozen Pizza Institute (whose members include Con Agra and Schwan.)

As President of the School Nutrition Association (SNA), I have seen school meals programs nationwide expand their offerings of whole grain products in the last few years.

In fact, SNA's 2009 Operations Report found that of the more than 1,200 school districts surveyed, 96 percent now offer whole grain items in school lunch rooms.

SNA just offers a whole lot for the professional.»

But Schwan has a seat on the School Nutrition Foundation's board (as does PepsiCo); through it, Schwan offers scholarships to SNA members for professional development.

The School Nutrition Association offers a rich array of continuing education programs for SNA members and the entire school nutrition community.