Where does your state rank in school breakfast performance? Find out in the most recent School Breakfast Scorecard from our partners at Food Research & Action Center. Use the scorecard to track school breakfast trends nationally and to compare school breakfast participation and service by state. Here is a quick summary of key data points…
Are you ready for National School Breakfast Week? It’s time to “Start Your Engines” and prepare to celebrate all the great things about school breakfast, March 4-8, 2019. We look forward to #NSBW every year, because it gives us the opportunity to celebrate and elevate an important program that feeds more than fourteen million students…
Happy National Nutrition Month! We’re excited to celebrate the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits this month along with our friends at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics! This year’s National Nutrition Month theme is “Go Further with Food” because: “[W]hether it’s starting the day off right…
Our partners at the Food Research and Action Center have released their latest School Breakfast Scorecard for school year 2016-17, just in time for National School Breakfast Week, March 5-9. While the data shows school breakfast participation continues to grow, the rate of growth has slowed which means there is plenty of room for improvement.…
With just a few weeks left in the school year, it’s a busy time for everyone, which is why we don’t want you to miss upcoming child nutrition webinars from School Nutrition Association* and Food Research & Action Center (FRAC). If you’re interested in school breakfast/breakfast in the classroom, afterschool feeding, and CEP, be sure…
Happy National Nutrition Month and happy National School Breakfast Week! It’s only fitting that #NSBW17 kicks off at the beginning of #NationalNutritionMonth; just as breakfast is the best way to start your day, celebrating breakfast is the best way to start a month-long nutrition celebration! National School Breakfast Week We are right in the middle…
March is all about school breakfast! Up first is National School Breakfast Week (March 1-6) celebrations in cafeterias around the country, so make sure you check in with us for great photos, stories, and scratch recipes from some of our favorite breakfast-in-the-classroom programs. March is also home to some excellent new school breakfast webinars from…
More kids are eating school breakfast than ever before according to our partners at the Food Research & Action Center. FRAC’s latest School Breakfast Scorecard report was released earlier this week, along with their annual School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts report. Let’s take a closer look at the state of school…
With National School Lunch Week in the rearview mirror, we’re turning our attention back to all things breakfast-in-the-classroom! We have opened up the application period for Cycle 4 of the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant, and many of you have already reached out to us about implementing BIC in your school or district.…
Now that we’re back in the swing of the new school year, we have been keeping an extra-close eye on our Google Alerts for all of the latest school breakfast and school lunch news for SY 2016-17. In between back-to-school breakfast celebrations and preparations for the upcoming National School Lunch Week celebrations, a few articles…
