The School Nutrition Foundation invites you to join us on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 for our upcoming webinar, “The Financial Sense of Breakfast.” This webinar is free and will be held from 2:00 p.m. through 3:15 p.m. EST. Held in partnership with the National Dairy Council, this webinar will help you make sense of breakfast…
In a perfect world, every child would sit down at the dinner table on Thanksgiving Day and enjoy a bountiful meal, shared with friends and family. As we well know, we do not live in a perfect world; we live, rather, in a country where one in five children is experiencing food insecurity—that’s about sixteen…
The School Nutrition Foundation invites you to join us on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 for our upcoming webinar, “Menuing Mushrooms: Strategies to Extend Meat Entrees, Add Veggies, and Gain Student Approval.” This webinar is free and will be held from 2:00 p.m. through 3:15 p.m. EST. We are excited to bring you strategies for extending…
By now our readers know how much we love a great Fuel Up to Play 60 contest—they are so much fun, and the prizes are always so amazing! The latest collaboration between Fuel Up to Play 60 and Quaker is called “Make Your Move,” and the prize for this one will make you sit up…
In the months since the Wellness Impact Report was released, we have been even more keenly aware of some of the exciting, creative things school nutrition professionals are doing to help the students in their schools make “the learning connection.” The learning connection is a central tenet of the report, which posits that healthy school…
This post was written by School Nutrition Foundation Director Julie Abrera. Julie recently visited Knox County Public Schools to get an update on how their breakfast-in-the-classroom program is going as we enter the 2013-14 school year. My first stop to see how universal BIC is doing in Knoxville had me on the road before 7…
We absolutely love this year’s National School Lunch Week theme, “School Lunch Across America”! When we were in Kansas City last July for ANC 2013, we had so much fun hearing stories about students’ favorite dishes, which vary widely from state to state. Whether it’s biscuits in the South or spicy mac n’ cheese in…
It’s hard to believe that September has already passed us by! Now that the 2013-14 school year is in full swing we are seeing so many positive, exciting stories about what’s going on in schools around the country—we had to share a few with you! First, we want to remind you that there are funding…
This year the School Nutrition Foundation is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, and we invite you to celebrate with us! We are thrilled to commemorate this achievement, and look forward to continuing our mission to advance school nutrition programs by providing resources to school nutrition professionals. Our dedication is driven by our passion for the important…
Our 2013-14 ‘Webinar Wednesdays’ series has begun, and our new topic will be presented on Wednesday, October 16, 2013; join us for “Sustainable Breakfast-in-the-Classroom Programs Start with Effective Assessments” at 2:00 p.m. EST for a 75 minute webinar that will help you understand the assessment process, which provides the framework for the development of a…
