Resources
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The Lunch Box’s Resources section is the central library for all resource tools developed by The Lunch Box team and those shared by other School Food experts around the country. It is a wellspring of tools including evaluations, grant finding and writing tools, feasibility studies, case studies, Farm to School resources and more so you can consider and begin to take action to transform your school district’s food program from a highly processed to a scratch-cooking environment.
Featured Article
Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs - Jan 2012
The new standards are out! Read this document for details.
Rainbow Days: A Salad Bar Student Activity Guide
Hosting a Rainbow Day at your school can help increase fruit and vegetable consumption at the salad bar, raise school lunch participation, and join food services, school administration, teachers, and parents together for a fun and healthy activity. Download this guide to help you host a Rainbow Day at your school!
Salad Bars - The Lunch Box Guide
This guide addresses the many areas that districts and schools need to address when considering adding salad bars to their reimbursable meal programs. Areas covered include equipment selection, regulations, purchasing, recipe development, training, marketing and student interface. The guide also links to all the individual salad bar resources and videos on The Lunch Box so it's our one-stop shop for salad bar information!
2011 Proposed USDA Regulations for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
Proposed rule for nutrition standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
A Checklist for Purchasing Local Produce
Good checklist for anyone looking to buy local produce.
A Growing Movement A Decade of Farm to School in California
This report tells the story of work undertaken by farm to school proponents in California to understand and address barriers to farm to school and of work within the system to promote and expand this exiting state wide program. (Anapama Joshi and Moira Berry)
A National Health Report from The Obesity Institute
A health report by The Obesity Institute recognizing five areas of work that flow together including prevention and behavior modification, clinical intervention, research, public policy and advocacy, and education and training. Their work is to create an approach to the childhood obesity epidemic in Washington D.C., where almost half of children are overweight or obese.
A New Health Care Prevention Agenda Sustainable Food Procurement
This article discusses the need to address the food system as a means to individual, public, and global health. Health care involvement is needed in policy and advocacy to solve the ecological health crises in our nation and globe.
A Nutritional and Environmental Perspective on School Meals
A paper analyzing current school meals in Baltimore and making suggestions for school meal reform based on child nutrition and the use of environmental resources. Includes a section on childhood obesity, school meals, environmental implications of current dietary patterns, and the case study in Baltimore with conclusions.
ABC's of Ecology from Ferry Beach Ecology School
Downloadable with purchase.
"Classroom teachers, home school educators, naturalists - anyone committed to teaching children about the world in which they live — will appreciate these 230 illustrated pages of activities with worksheets and plans for a single lesson or a broader ecology unit."