Nutrition and Food Choices

Alliance for a Healthier Generation Product Calculator

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A useful calculator that helps your school purchase healthy snacks under Alliance for a Healthier Generation competitive food guidelines (similar to USDA proposed guidelines).

https://schools.healthiergeneration.org/resources__tools/school_meals/product_ca...

Alliance for a Healthier Generation Product Navigator

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Need to search for healthy competitive foods that follow the necessary guidlines? Here's your resource - a product navigator that compiles companies who have agreed to offer snacks under the Alliance for Healthier Generation rules.

https://schools.healthiergeneration.org/resources__tools/school_meals/product_na...

Competitive Foods and Beverage Guidelines: Alliance and USDA (Proposed) Comparison

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A side-by-side comparison of the USDA's (proposed) guidelines on competitive foods and Alliance for a Healthier Generation's developed guidelines.

application/pdf iconUSDARuleCompChart.pdf

Tips for Making Healthy School Lunches for Less

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Serving healthy school meals on a tight budget can be a challenge. The following tips were gathered from school food service professionals across the country to help make serving healthy foods more affordable. We recognize that school nutrition program costs and challenges vary from one community to the next, so while these tips may not work for everyone, we hope some will be useful at your school.

application/pdf iconCSPI Tips for Making Healthy Lunches for Less

2012 Food Day School Curriculum

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Professors at Teachers College, Columbia University, created our unique Food Day school curriculum. The 88-page Food Day curriculum for upper elementary and middle school grads offers five lessons designed to teach children the importance of eating real, fresh food; cutting back on processed foods; and advocating for a healthier community. The lessons can be easily adapted for older or younger students. Teachers are encouraged to use the curriculum on the week of October 24.

application/pdf iconFood_Day_School_Curriculum_2012_NO_BRAND.pdf

FRAC Facts: Community Eligibility

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"Community Eligibility allows schools with high numbers of low-income children to serve free breakfast and lunch to all students without collecting school meal applications. This option increases participation by children in the school meal programs, while schools reduce labor costs and increase their federal revenues, allowing for a healthier student body and a healthier school meal budget."
By FRAC http://frac.org/

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Breakfast in the Classroom Fact Sheet

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"Serving breakfast at the beginning of the school day dramatically increases participation by making it convenient and accessible to all, no matter how students arrive at school. For instance, it eliminates the barrier often caused by tight bus schedules. Service options include breakfast in the classroom, “grab and go” breakfast service from carts or kiosks set up in school hallways or cafeterias, and breakfast after first period in middle and high schools."
By FRAC http://frac.org/

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Creating Change in the Food System: The role of regional food networks in Iowa

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"This report, authored by Rich Pirog of MSU CRFS and Corry Bregendahl of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, details the growth and achievements of the Regional Food Systems Working Group in Iowa over the past eight years."

application/pdf iconCreating Change in the Food System report.pdf
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