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…
Given that National School Breakfast Week was celebrated March 3-7, it’s no surprise to find a huge array of terrific school breakfast-themed stories arrive in our Google Alerts! It was tough to choose our favorites, but we narrowed down the list so we could share some of them with our readers. By the way, have…
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…
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…
Each month, our staff reads hundreds of media reports on the subject of school nutrition. We curate our favorites in a monthly blog post we call, “In the News.” Highlighting positive stories about the great things going on in school cafeterias helps us in many ways: providing inspiration, connecting school nutrition professionals from across the…
In the months since the Wellness Impact Report was released, we have been even more keenly aware of some of the exciting, creative things school nutrition professionals are doing to help the students in their schools make “the learning connection.” The learning connection is a central tenet of the report, which posits that healthy school…
This post was written by School Nutrition Foundation Director Julie Abrera. Julie recently visited Knox County Public Schools to get an update on how their breakfast-in-the-classroom program is going as we enter the 2013-14 school year. My first stop to see how universal BIC is doing in Knoxville had me on the road before 7…
The School Nutrition Foundation Red Carpet Video Booth was a huge success at ANC 2013, and we are bringing you more video from our time in Kansas City. One of the great benefits of the Annual National Conference is the opportunity to meet fellow school nutrition professionals and exchange ideas; this is the reason why…
We are really excited to begin sharing our video footage from ANC 2013 in Kansas City. Throughout the course of the conference, we invited school nutrition professionals from around the country to step in front of the SNF camera and tell us their school breakfast stories. We heard about participation, delivery methods, menu items, and…
We have a lot of video to show you from our time in Kansas City, and we are looking forward to posting them over the next several weeks. The videos were taken in the SNF Video Booth at ANC 2013, and we heard from you on topics such as school breakfast, equipment needs, scholarship opportunities,…
