Fuel Up to Play 60 “Super Bowl” Breakfast Oatmeal Challenge

The newest Fuel Up to Play 60 Challenge is here, and your students can be a part of it! Here at Beyond Breakfast we are extra excited about this latest challenge because first, it involves breakfast and second, it involves one of our favorite breakfast foods—oatmeal! We encourage you to share this with your students…

2012 Nutrition + Physical Activity Connection Summit Boosts School Breakfast

This week GENYOUth held their Nutrition + Physical Activity Learning Connection Summit, which brought together players from across the nutrition and physical activity spectrum, to explore the connection that physical activity and nutrition have with learning and behavior. In addition to GENYOUth, the summit partners included National Dairy Council, the National Football League, the American…

Your School Breakfast Stories from ANC: Indiana and Colorado

Today’s blog is a continuation of our series of breakfast stories from ANC 12 in Denver. Many managers and directors stopped by the School Nutrition Foundation booth to share their school breakfast stories with us, and to discuss ways to expand breakfast-in-the-classroom programs. In this series of videos we will hear from Rebecca and Victoria,…

National School Breakfast Week “Design a T-Shirt” Contest Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) 2012 “School Breakfast—Go for Gold!” campaign have been chosen. 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…

School Breakfast: A Salute to Creative Solutions

Here at Beyond Breakfast, we love it when schools “put on their thinking caps” to come up with creative solutions for feeding students. When we read great stories about the creative ways schools across the country are implementing school breakfast and lunch programs, we just have to share them with you! Special Breakfast Offers Etiquette…

Breakfast in the Classroom in the News, February 2012

One of the most useful, simple tools to use is Google Alerts—we really can’t recommend it enough. We got into the habit of using Google Alerts to track relevant news and information surrounding school nutrition (and specifically, school breakfast) after reading Free for All: Fixing School Food in America by Jan Poppendieck. Jan wrote about…

When it comes to School Breakfast – Go for Gold!

  National School Breakfast Week is going on now and this year’s theme, “School Breakfast – Go for Gold!” was inspired by the idea that eating a healthy, balanced breakfast at school helps all students shine. The campaign launched this month and will run through March; National School Breakfast Week will be celebrated at schools…

Spotlight: Breakfast-in-the-Classroom Success at Memphis City Schools Part 2

Part Two of our interview with Memphis City Schools’ Coordinator of Nutrition Services Alexsis Caston. Don’t miss Part One to learn about how breakfast-in-the-classroom got started in Memphis! BB: Now you are moving into an expansion phase. What is that going to entail for you? How many schools are involved in the breakfast-in-the-classroom expansion? AC:…

January is National Oatmeal Month

Did you know that January is National Oatmeal Month? What better time to reacquaint yourself with this healthy, hearty, affordable pantry staple than at the start of a new year! Many of us make New Year’s resolutions that involve making healthier choices for ourselves and our families, and adding oatmeal to your regular breakfast rotation…

Webinar Wednesday: The Future of School Breakfast Roundup; November 16 Webinar Topic Announcement

Our Webinar Wednesday series continued on November 2nd with a terrific presentation on breakfast in the classroom. The focus of last week’s webinar was the future of school breakfast, and included strategies for growth and expansion. Moderated by Ali Dorazio (MS, RD), nutrition scientist at the General Mills Bell Institute of Health & Nutrition, we…