Not exact matches
Annie's Homegrown is encouraging anyone who wants to inspire kids to dig real
food to join Root4Kids, their movement which offers simple and fun
healthful activities, resources, and
programs for home and the community.
Choicelunch is a California school
food caterer supplying
healthful meals to over 250 schools, most of which are affluent enough to operate outside the National School Lunch
Program.
CHEF KATE ADAMICK, Principal of
Food Systems Solutions ® LLC, is a New York City - based consultant specializing in integrating operational changes, site - based
programming, and public - private partnerships to implement, reinforce and support the
healthful transformation of institutional meals
programs and aid in developing local and sustainable agriculture systems.
If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single,
healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those
foods would simply leave the
program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).
The mission of the LaConner School District
Food Service
Program is to provide nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning, while at the same time promoting nutritional education for life long
healthful living.
Sixty percent of the parents of students enrolled in the stronger
food curriculum said school changed their child's knowledge about
healthful food choices, compared to 36 percent in the other
program.
Last summer the American Heart Association conducted a workshop for the
food managers of the 12 Chicago school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch
Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more
healthful meals.
With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool
food offerings to allergy - free,
healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking
program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.
The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act will expand the number of children in school lunch
programs by 115,000, increase the reimbursement rate to school districts for meals by six cents and replace the junk
food available outside the cafeteria, such as in vending machines, with more
healthful options.
At a June meeting between Houston ISD
Food Services and its Parent Advisory Commitee, some PAC members suggested that rather than offering junk food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized prog
Food Services and its Parent Advisory Commitee, some PAC members suggested that rather than offering junk
food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized prog
food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer
foods that are more
healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized
program.
Whether it's through the integration of our award - winning healthy vending machine
program, the sourcing of healthier products for your student stores and a la carte lines, or through fundraising, HUMAN can work with you to ensure your competitive
food and beverage options are
healthful, meet all federal mandates, taste delicious, and generate revenue for your school.
Every Friday, the Smart Sacks
program sends more than 2,000 kids home with a 1 - pound pack of
healthful food.
Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids» Safe and
Healthful Foods Project, and Erik Olson, senior director of
food programs for The Pew Charitable Trusts, welcomed participants and thanked them for attending the workshop.
AACS Locations with a HUMAN Healthy Vending
program will gain: 1)
Healthful food and beverage options for students / future professionals, including hot meals 2) Energy savings compared to traditional vending equipment 3) Increased value - add for AACS schools, which adds to their overall marketability
Instead, the
program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of
healthful food, in light of today's rising
food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a
food desert where
healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..
His
program at Holy Trinity is telling us some important things about kids and school
food — namely, that
food doesn't need to be «dumbed down» for kids to accept it; that kids implicitly understand when deep care is being put into the preparation of their
food and they respond with equal respect; and that improving school
food can change kids» attitudes about
food outside the school yard gates, as was the case with the student quoted by Chef Boundas who cut back on fast
food now that he's eating
healthful foods at lunch and learning about nutrition and cooking in Chef Boundas's kitchen.
Ivy Ken, a DCPS parent and longtime advocate for more
healthful food in schools, said she is «thrilled» that the lawsuit is bringing to light concerns people have had about the
food program that were often dismissed by District officials.
42 Schools honored for anti-obesity efforts; green cleaners catching on in schools;
program introduces students to
healthful eating habits,
foods; doctors say more teens need meningitis vaccine.
62 Students prep mentally, physically for fitness contest; some question mass - producing school lunches; push for more
healthful eating takes toll on bake sales;
program teaches kids I - CAN make better
food choices.