School Meals
Healthier School Meals – the Alliance for a Healthier Generation – resources and tools designed to help schools purchase healthier options for their students.
Healthy School Meals Resource System, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Healthier US School Challenge, USDA
Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools – comprehensive grassroots public health effort to mobilize and engage stakeholders at the local, state and national level to support salad bars in schools.
Lunch Box! – Healthy Tools to Help all Schools – packed with solutions at your fingertips to transform your school food into healthy and delicious food for all children, at every school.
What You Need To Know About School Lunch – in order to consider how your school or district might change schools meals, you need to understand the big picture of how school meals are funded and the rules and regulations schools are required to meet.
Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children Book by Chef Ann Cooper
School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study-II, a U.S. Department o Agriculture study of the Foods Served in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program
Local Support for Nutrition Integrity in Schools, American Dietetic Association – schools and communities have a shared responsibility to provide students with access to high-quality, nutritious foods and beverages.
Nutrition Services: an Essential Component of Comprehensive Health Programs, American Dietetic Association – comprehensive, integrated nutrition services in schools, K-12, are an essential component of coordinated school health programs and will improve the nutritional status, health, and academic performance of our nation’s children.
Breakfast for Learning, Food Research and Action Center – Scientific research on the link between children’s nutrition and academic performance.
School Breakfast Scorecard, Food Research and Action Center
“Got Breakfast?” – works to ensure that every child, regardless of background, starts the school day with a nutritious breakfast in order to learn, grow and develop to his or her fullest potential.
