Heartland’s own Pete Belknap, National Account Manager, shares his experience of the 2016 School Nutrition Industry Conference.
Are you looking for school recipes that are both nutritious and kid-approved? The Recipes for Healthy Kids Cookbook, launched in September of 2013 as part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, features a collection of healthy and flavorful recipes selected from the Recipes for Healthy Kids Competition back in 2010.
From all of us at Heartland School Solutions, we'd like to wish you a happy and safe holiday season!
And with 2016 right around the corner, let's take a look at the most popular Connections blogs posts from this year:
This year beautiful San Diego, CA will be host to the 2016 School Nutrition Industry Conference (SNIC), January 16-19, 2016. Each year hundreds of school nutrition professionals and their industry partners gather together at SNIC (formerly CNIC) to network and collaborate. With the business of school nutrition and the children they serve as the primary focus, attendees take this opportunity to look to the future.
Thanksgiving is the perfect time for a school community to come together and celebrate the spirit of the holiday with one another. How are you celebrating Thanksgiving in your district this year?
If you need a little inspiration, below are a few activities you can do with your staff and students to help you get into the spirit of the holiday.
Whether it's festivities at school or birthday parties at home, celebrations tend to offer foods that may undermine healthy eating habits for kids. But with some creative party planning you can take steps to make celebrations healthier.
Check out this month's FitFuture Parent Newsletter for a few tips on how to make celebrations healthier at school and at home:
Convenience, simplicity, and security are just a few of the benefits of accepting online donations for your school fundraising efforts. But how else does collecting school donations online benefit you, your volunteers, and your donors?
Here are the top 6 benefits of collecting school donations online:
This year's theme 'School Lunch Snapshot' encourages schools to share pictures of real school food on their social media pages, blogs, websites, newsletters, and more.
Social sharing provides nutrition programs the perfect avenue for showing off their healthy menus, helping to increase overall participation and educating their community on the benefits of school food.
To CEP, or not to CEP?
That is the question. Whether ‘tis easier to suffer the pains of paper application processing, or to take Community Eligibility against a sea of applications.
CEP is more than just another USDA delivered acronym. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows school districts with high poverty rates to easily serve free meals to eligible students. Both breakfast and lunch can be served to all students by removing the need for schools to distribute, collect, and process paper applications.
