School Food
The Good Food Purchasing Program transforms the way public institutions purchase food by providing a metric based, flexible framework that encourages large institutions to direct their buying power toward five core values: local economies, environmental sustainability, valued workforce, animal welfare, and nutrition. The Good Food Purchasing Program...
This manual presents a general overview of how to implement a salad bar program in an elementary school cafeteria.
Based on lessons learned while launching salad bars on several Los Angeles campuses, it is designed for schools, cafeteria personnel, parents or other community members and covers the full process from planning to maintenance and...
This research contains an assessment of the impact of legislation that established nutrition standards for foods and beverages that compete with reimbursable school meals in California. This study concluded that regulation of competitive foods improved school food environments and student nutritional intake.
On-campus foods and beverages meeting...
This series of videos, four to five minutes each, covers a range of topics including the future of school lunch, organic farming on UC campuses, wage justice, wild bees, edible wild plants growing in cities, and the impact of ocean acidification on marine invertebrates.
Our Food Chain promotes healthy eating by using media to educate and inspire parents, children, communities, and policy makers to get involved in their school lunch programs and improve the food options in their homes and in their communities.
Its award-winning hour-long documentary, which can be viewed on its website, is based on innovations in...
Public Health Advocates (formerly the California Center for Public Health Advocacy) helps neighborhoods and schools become places that nurture health and well-being. They believe that neighborhoods and schools can be places where the physical, social, and economic conditions make health a reality for all people.
Their website features innovative...
A positive vision informs this planning framework: healthy children ready to learn, “food literate” graduates, invigorated local communities, sustainable agriculture, and a healthy environment.
The Guide is a downloadable PDF that explains the rationale for reforming school food and explores the ten pathways that constitute the planning...
This article includes an assessment of the potential and challenges of the elementary school cafeteria as a setting and resource for nutrition education, with evaluation of the development and implementation of a toolkit for nutrition education by elementary food services staff.
The goal of the project was to take advantage of the potential of...
How can you improve the preK-12 dining experience and inspire healthy habits in schools? This two-page PDF summarizes projects from the University of California and it's Global Food Initiative aimed at improving school food and nutrition.
