The school year is winding down across the country, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop talking about delicious, nutritious school lunch and breakfast. As we all know, “hunger doesn’t take a vacation,” which is why summer feeding has been dominating the headlines—and the hashtags—for the last few weeks. At the end of April,…
When it comes to promoting school meals via social media, there are few folks doing it better than Dayle Hayes, the woman behind School Meals That Rock. Dayle has been presenting delicious school meals, one photo at a time, and pushing back against the notion that schools are serving primarily—as Katie Couric recently put it—“junk…
We have had an exciting month here at Beyond Breakfast! First we took a jaunt up to Fairbanks, Alaska, where the UAF Cooperative Extension was kind enough to lend us office space so we could get work done during our travels. The sight of snow falling in April didn’t make the Alaskans very happy, but…
Last week was an incredible week at the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference in Austin, TX; we are so grateful for the opportunity to attend. This year’s theme was “Powering Up!”, and each session was infused with a palpable energy and excitement; when 1100 farm-to-cafeteria enthusiasts get excited, you can feel it! On Wednesday we…
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…
School Nutrition Foundation invites you to join us as we kick off our 2013-14 ‘Webinar Wednesday’ series on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 when we will present “Connecting Schools and Communities through the Afterschool Meal Program” in partnership with the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) and the Afterschool Alliance. This webinar is free and will…
One of the biggest trends in the world of school nutrition right now is scratch cooking. Back in February, the School Nutrition Foundation produced a webinar on just this topic for our Webinar Wednesday series, entitled “From On-site Baking and Working with National Brands, Strategies to Introduce Scalable Whole Grain Scratch Techniques.” Presented in partnership…
We glanced at our calendars today and realized something pretty amazing—we have just one month until the 2013 Annual National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri! As our longtime readers know, ANC is one of the great highlights of the year for us, and in addition to sharing stories on our blog we also keep you…
With Memorial Day weekend behind us, many school districts are in the final stretch before summer vacation begins. As our school nutrition professionals know, many students that they serve rely on school meals; they are, for many, the only meals school children can rely on. Every year we see a growing need for summer feeding…
School Nutrition Foundation and Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) are teaming up for an end-of-the-year webinar entitled, “Making Universal Meals a Reality through the Community Eligibility Option.” We invite you to join us on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 from 2 p.m.-3:15 p.m. EST (1 p.m. CT/12 p.m. MT/11 a.m. PT) to learn more about…