Recipes
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.
ChopChop is filled with nutritious, delicious, ethnically diverse, and inexpensive recipes for kids. Winner of the prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Publication of the Year, this quarterly magazine is published in both Spanish and English. It also has food facts, games and puzzles, and interviews with healthy heroes ranging from kid...
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...
Growing Minds (GM), headquartered in North Carolina, works with schools in 60 "Appalachian Grown" Counties. GM provides training for teachers, school nutrition staff, parents, community members, and farmers/ag professionals, as well as producing an annual farm-to-school conference.
The GM website offers lesson plans, recipes, a searchable...
NFSN is an information, advocacy, and networking hub for communities bringing local food sourcing and food-and-agriculture education into school systems and preschools. It has curated thousands of resources related to farm-to-school and farm-to-preschool.
It provides vision, leadership, and support at the state, regional and national levels to...
The Daily Scoop is a series of fun, kid-friendly nutirition tips. They can be added to the daily school-wide announcements or to a teacher's opening routine.
The messages are designed as an easy nutrition education tool to help schools/districts meet wellness policy goals, and elevate the importance of nutrition education to a daily practice...
Young Chefs uses hands-on cooking education to empower the next generation with culinary skills and scientific knowledge. It develops free open-access lesson plans and teaching resources for cooking/science education. Its support for educators includes afterschool programming, teacher workshops, summer camps, and in-school lessons.
Its website...
