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4 Tips for the Best Back-to-School Lunches
Fast and Cheap School Lunches
We still need to feed our families and make the most of our meals...
Better Snacks for Kids
Our kids deserve better snacks to prevent a premature case of type 2 diabetes or heart disease...
Top Ten Nutrients of Focus for Kids
If you want to help kids to fare better in school this year, pay attention to nutrition...
USDA School Snack Guide - Smart Snack List for Parents, Teachers and School Foodservice Directors
The face of school snacks is changing. With the new USDA regulations, healthful foods are replacing cookies and candy as the snacks available to kids. But how will this impact your school event? Let’s take a look...
Back to School Tip #3: The MyPlate Pledge
It's time for our last back to school tip, and this one is all about motivation...
Back to School Tip #2: Play, Play, Play
Sometimes kids can get to their recommended 60 minutes (or more) of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily at school, but it's often the case that they can't...
Back to School Tip #1: Snackvantage
August is Kids Eat Right Month and also when most kids head back to school. Help the kids in your life make healthful choices as they start back to school by seizing a snackvantage...
Smarter Lunchrooms
The Smarter Lunch Room Scorecard has 60 no cost or minimal cost action plans that can be used in lunch rooms to increase participation, increase healthful food consumption, and reduce food waste...
A Vegan Petting Zoo - Great Activity for Kids
Better Birthday Treats for Kids
If you were to replace birthday cake with the sweet treats in this post, then you would save about 8,000 calories per child per school year, which is quite a bit...
Sneak Preview: Make Vegetables More Appealing!
Here's a special preview of Building a Plant-Based Eating Pattern: Vegetables, the first in a new series about creating an eating pattern that is rich in healthful plants...
2015 Year in Review
What a year it has been! 2015 was chock-full of new nutrition policy, scientific research, and health information. Want to take a quick look at some of the highlights?
Book Review: French Kids Eat Everything
I wish all new parents could read Karen Le Billon’s French Kids Eat Everything!
Breaking News: USDA Offers $8 Million to Schools and Child Care Centers
This just in: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will give over 8 million dollars to help school and child care nutrition professionals offer healthful meals to their students.
3 Interactive MyPlate Activities
After multiple reader requests, I put together a fun MyPlate sticker pack for the Nutrition Education Store, but today I decided that the activities were simply too fun to miss. So I'm offering a sneak peek on the blog, for free! Let's take a look at these activities -- which will you try first?
Nutrition News Highlights of 2014
There has been a ton of groundbreaking health news this year. Let's look back at the top nutrition and health stories of 2014...
November Poster Contest Winners
It's December, which means that it's time to reveal the winners of the November poster contest! Are you ready for this?
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