Marketing Fruit and Vegetables to Middle School Students: Formative Assessment Results

…Smart Snacks Nutrition Standards for Competitive Food in Schools, implemented during the 2014-15 school year. As such, certain research may not be relevant today. Approximately 95% of school children in…

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Elementary Parent Perceptions of Packing Lunches and the National School Lunch Program

…motivating factors were combined and reduced to three categories: agreement (“strongly agree” and “agree”), neutral, and disagreement (“disagree” and “strongly disagree”). Written comments were coded by two researchers, common themes…

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#SNIC23 Pre-Con Spotlight: Local Dairy Farm Tour

…the hot topics of the moment may shift, and new ones will emerge. Join us for a facilitated conversation around the hot topics of the moment as we brainstorm solutions…

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Healthier US Schools Challenge Lunches are More Nutritious than Lunches Brought from Home

…collected each spring for commodity and non-commodity food product pricing for use by member districts the following school year. Each school district pays the same price for products, regardless of…

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Connecting Classroom and Cafeteria in a School Wellness Initiative

…of the Month,” based on a combination of seasonal and/or commodity availability. In the classroom, educators spotlighted the “Harvests of the Month” by including taste testings, food preparation and food/farming…

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School Foodservice – Outsource or Self-Op?

companies. Some contracts between school food authorities and foodservice management companies lacked controls as to exactly how the company would determine the allowability of costs charged to the school food…

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Competency-Based Performance Appraisals: Improving Performance Evaluations of School Nutrition Managers and Assistants/Technicians

…Smart Snacks Nutrition Standards for Competitive Food in Schools, implemented during the 2014-15 school year. As such, certain research may not be relevant today. The Competencies, Knowledge, and Skills of…

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Megan Schaper, SNS

…healthy eating habits, but I’d be pretty happy eating hot dogs, spaghetti and peanut butter every day, if that was all I had available. What was your best vacation and…

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Maria Eunice, SNS

…Gold Award, an honor equivalent to Eagle Scout. Her mother’s lessons in assertiveness served her well in the long run, too, Eunice says, and it has all come together to…

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Grab ‘n’ Go Breakfast Increases Participation in the School Breakfast Program

…offer a free breakfast for all students. The computer system was required to maintain proper record keeping, and without this computerization, the anonymity of using pre-paid debit system would be…

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