Recipe for Success Foundation Founder Gracie Cavnar: “Kids drive the behaviors of so many families!”

In December of last year, we reached out to the Recipe for Success Foundation in Houston, Texas to learn more about their Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ program. RFS invited us to observe garden education and culinary/nutrition classes at the program’s flagship school, MacGregor Elementary. We also sat down with RFS founder, Gracie Cavnar, to learn more…

Recipe for Success Foundation Founder Gracie Cavnar: “It’s not a secret that we have to eat healthy.”

In December of last year, we reached out to the Recipe for Success Foundation in Houston, Texas to learn more about their Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ program. RFS invited us to observe garden education and culinary/nutrition classes at the program’s flagship school, MacGregor Elementary. We also sat down with RFS founder, Gracie Cavnar, to learn more…

Recipe for Success: From Seed to Plate (and Beyond!)

Last December we got in touch with the folks at Recipe for Success Foundation, in an effort to learn more about their work to reduce childhood obesity. Founded in 2005 by Gracie Cavnar and her husband Bob, RFS is quite literally putting children in touch with their food, through school gardens, nutrition education, and hands-on…

Houston-Based Recipe for Success Foundation Brings Gardening, Cooking to Life in the Classroom

Here at Beyond Breakfast, we’ve been following the work of the Recipe for Success Foundation since 2010, when SNF blogger/consultant Christina saw R4S founder Gracie Cavnar speak at TEDxHouston. “Every powerful idea starts with a flicker of inspiration,” Cavnar told the TEDxHouston crowd that day, and she went on to outline how her foundation translates…

UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health Release Food Bank Nutrition Report

We sat down recently with dietitian, school breakfast supporter, and longtime friend of SNF, Elizabeth Campbell, RD, to discuss her work on a series of recent articles that appeared in the September 2013 issue of the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. The four papers discuss the findings and implications of research done by Campbell…

National Nutrition Month Wellness Impact Twitter Chat March 28, 2013—Join Us!

If you follow Beyond Breakfast and the School Nutrition Foundation on Facebook and Twitter, you may have seen us post a link earlier this month to the National Dairy Council’s Wellness Impact Report. “The Wellness Impact: Enhancing Academic Success through Healthy School Environments” is a comprehensive, 39-page report that discusses the “learning connection” that exists…

Breakfast-in-the-Classroom For Good Health

Breakfast-in-the-classroom is both a solution to problems (like hunger and obesity) and a way to enhance the school day through a shared meal with teachers and classmates. During our National School Breakfast Week celebration we have heard from so many of you–through the blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter–about all the varied reasons you support…

Food for Thought: Why School Breakfast Matters – A Lot

A guest blog by Dennis Van Roekel, National Education Association I remember the students who came to my class without eating breakfast. They were tired, unable to concentrate and always asking to visit the nurse’s office. These children thought more of their next meal than geometry or algebra. As a former math teacher with 23…

Join School Nutrition Foundation on Wednesday, February 6 for Webinar on Scratch Baking and Whole Grains

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…