December 3, 2013
Here at Beyond Breakfast we are always on the lookout for great school breakfast resources, and we love to share them with our readers. In recent weeks we have written about The Wellness Impact Report, SNF’s Webinar Wednesdays® series, and the SNF/National Dairy Council School Breakfast Case Study collaboration. Today we are going to highlight…
November 21, 2013
We love to share school breakfast news with you on our Facebook and Twitter feeds, but this week there were just too many great stories to share to do it one at a time—we had to round them up in one place! First, we heard from FRAC and NAESPF, who reported that principals across the…
November 19, 2013
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…
November 12, 2013
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…
October 30, 2013
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…
October 29, 2013
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…
October 18, 2013
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…
October 10, 2013
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…
October 3, 2013
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…
September 26, 2013
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…
