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
Salad Bars in the National School Lunch Program (Revised Memo)
This revision includes updates based on the revised nutrition standards for school meals and includes questions and answers.
Fast Food FACTS the Food Advertising to Children and Teens Score Report
Re-posted with permission from the Yale Rudd Center- http://www.fastfoodmarketing.org/
Federal Sustainable Agriculture Program Primer
"The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) is an alliance of grassroots organizations that advocates for federal policy reform to advance the sustainability of agriculture, food systems, natural resources, and rural communities.
NSAC was founded upon two shared, integrated, and equal priorities. These are: to support, build, develop, and engage the grassroots of sustainable agriculture for the health and vitality of the sustainable agriculture movement; and to research, develop, and advocate federal policies relating to farm, food, and environmental issues, appropriations, and implementation to support and advance sustainable agriculture.
Committed to diversity, NSAC builds capacity among members at the grassroots to develop leadership. It is a coalition with political, media, communications, and collaboration expertise that employs effective and experienced staff."
Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger
"An international classroom for exploring the problems of hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity. Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger is designed to help equip and encourage teachers, students and young people all over the world to actively participate in creating a world free from hunger.
You will find lessons modules for teachers, resources and activities for young people and an interactive forum for exchanging information and experiences around the world."
Feeding Your Kids
"Feeding Your Kids is a 42-day program that helps you make small changes over time that add up to a big result. Encourage your children to develop healthy eating habits that last a lifetime! It's completely free!
The Feeding Your Kids program is for everyone who wants to feed their children healthier. It's the only program of this kind written from a parent's perspective, addressing the real-life complications that make parents struggle with feeding. If you want to change how you feed your child, take this program!"
Fight Bac!
"Every year, one in six Americans gets sick from dangerous foodborne bacteria. The estimated 128,000 who suffer serious illness requiring hospitalization each year are those most vulnerable to infections -- young children, the elderly, and other people with compromised immune systems. The Partnership for Food Safety Education’s mission is to end illness and death from foodborne infection in the United States.
The Partnership is a one-of-a-kind nonprofit that brings together stakeholders to ensure that Americans have access to actionable information they need to protect themselves from food poisoning. The Partnership works with an active network of 10,000 field educators, providing them with tools they can use to educate people about protecting their health through safe food handling and hygiene."
Final Rule Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs - January 2012
2012 USDA dietary specifications chart for the Final Rule Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers, Inc. (FOG)
"Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers, Inc. supports and promotes organic and sustainable agriculture, wherein; we educate consumers, farmers, future farmers (children & youth), businesses, policy makers and the general public."
Food and Agriculture Organization
"Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts - to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. FAO's mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy.
FAO's activities comprise four main areas: Putting information within reach, Sharing policy expertise, Providing a meeting place for nations, and Bringing knowledge to the field."
Food and Community
"Access to good food and opportunities for physical activity are critical components of improving children’s overall health. For more than 80 years, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has used its voice to advocate for equitable access to good food and physical activity, and to bring meaningful change to our food systems. As one of the nation's most active supporters of improving the quality of food that people eat, the foundation has provided upwards of $230 million in funding over the years and continues to invest in the good ideas that communities bring to the table.
Through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food & Community Program, the foundation targets investments to improve school food systems, increase access to good food and physical activity, and shape the national movement for healthy eating and active living."