School Food
The new guidelines define key agreements for providing a safe, nourishing environment for teaching and learning. The guidelines booklet includes clearly written and colorfully illustrated descriptions of each guideline.
It offers helpful suggestions about what works and what doesn’t work in practice toward making schools “a place where our values...
CFPA is dedicated to increasing access to nutritious, affordable food for low-income Californians. Its school-food related areas of focus are school breakfast and lunch, meal enrollment, afterschool nutrition, early childhood nutrition, summer nutrition, and REAL (Real Eats for Academics and Life) school food.
The website features nutrition action...
The guide offers recipes, tested in schools, to support the inclusion of local, fresh, California specialty crops in the school lunch menus. It includes instructions for professional development. The recipes are presented in family-size portions appropriate for professional development and also scaled up for school-sized production.
In response to the childhood obesity epidemic, much research has been conducted on school-based obesity prevention and healthy eating and physical activity promotion and intervention. The Centers for Disease Control's new guidelines in this report synthesize the scientific evidence and best practices during 1995-2009 and combine healthy eating and...
This website provides links to a multitude of resources, (PDFs, powerpoint presentations, and webinars) that support health and wellness. Topics include CalFresh, Urban Agriculture, Working with Farmers' Markets, Food Recovery, and School Wellness.
The Shaping Healthy Choices Program is a multi-component, school-based intervention that was developed to improve children’s health. The program integrates activities within four components: nutrition education and promotion, family and community partnerships, foods available on the school campus with an emphasis on regional agriculture, and school...
The Chef Ann Foundation is dedicated to helping schools take action so that every child has daily access to fresh, healthy food. Its programs include Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools, Project Produce, Parent Advocacy Initiative, and Healthy Breakfast for Kids, as well as The Lunch Box, an online resource that provides free step-by-step guides, tools, and...
This cookbook, menu planning resource, and professional development guide helps meal services devise appealing menus around dishes that children already prefer. It offers ideas for adding more fresh, local, healthy foods to school lunches; honors California’s rich history and cultural heritage; and describes a tested plan for effective professional...
This article reviews the benefits and challenges of farm-to-school efforts, describing some of the innovative ways that food service directors on California’s Central Coast are working to overcome challenges by forming effective partnerships with other school districts and with food banks and produce distributors.
It also describes how efforts to...
This farm to school policy brief was written to inform policymakers and farm to school educators and advocates about the benefits and challenges faced by school food service managers as they attempt to purchase food from regional farms. It concludes with some possible practical and policy options to consider to support farm to school activities.
