We have rescheduled our April 3, 2014 webinar! Please join us on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 for our upcoming webinar, “Unlock Your Menu Potential: Secrets to Whole Grain Success.” This webinar is free and will be held from 2:00 p.m. through 3:15 p.m. EST. You can register online now. In partnership with Ultragrain®, SNA will…
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…
The School Nutrition Foundation’s monthly web series, Webinar Wednesdays, feature the hottest topics in school nutrition. Our panels of expert moderators and panelists share their knowledge and experience on a variety of subjects ranging from meal patterns to scratch cooking to – of course! – school breakfast. We know that not everyone can join us…
Have you been considering scratch cooking for your school nutrition program, but feel overwhelmed, underfunded, or underequipped? Then this is the webinar you have been waiting for! Let us take some of the fear out of scratch cooking during our upcoming webinar. Register now, and join us on Wednesday, February 6, to follow the journey…
The School Nutrition Foundation is pleased to announce that we have rescheduled the previously postponed webinar Best Practices in Menu Planning: New Meal Pattern Flexibilities. Join us on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 2 p.m. EST for a 75-minute presentation, developed in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Division. This…
It was another big year for school nutrition—and school breakfast, specifically—with lots of exciting changes in cafeterias across America. From school breakfast expansion in ten new districts through Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, to the recent announcement that the USDA will lift the protein and grain limits, school nutrition has stayed in the headlines.…
Is your school a Fuel Up to Play 60 school? Do you have a great story to share about your school’s participation in the Fuel Up to Play 60 program? If you are a school foodservice staff member, a teacher, or an administrator whose school is working to improve the lives of students through healthier…
Part One of our interview with Lori Watson Sanders. Last week we introduced you to Lori Watson Sanders, Field Coordinator, Floyd County School Nutrition; Johnson Elementary School Manager. Lori is a passionate advocate for breakfast-in-the-classroom, and has shared that passion—and her story—with us here at Beyond Breakfast. Lori has been awarded a USDA “Best Practices”…
The 2012-13 school year is in full swing around the country, and that means we have been seeing a lot of wonderful stories about school food in the news. Whether they are highlighting expanded universal breakfast-in-the-classroom, farm-to-schools, or chefs-to-schools, we are excited to see our message of healthy school food spreading across the country! Here…
During the course of our week at ANC in Denver, the School Nutrition Foundation held a series of three listening sessions sponsored by the National Dairy Council. The purpose of the sessions was to engage directors and managers in a discussion about the regulation changes surrounding school breakfast that are scheduled for next year. By…