By Michele Battiste | Director of Development
The newly expanded and revised Lunch Box will be launching later this month, and not a day too early!
It's back-to-school season, and this year is pivotal for school food. The USDA has made great strides in creating new guidelines to ensure that every child in this country has access to healthy food in school. However, current legislative battles at the federal level will determine if we take steps forward or backward.
The Chef Ann Foundation created The Lunch Box to ensure continued improvements in school nutrition regardless of federal flip-flopping, and the new version provides tools, guides and resources that schools need today!
We'll have entirely new sections on Procurement, Management, and Marketing: three areas in which school districts are growing and changing. We'll have complete step-by-step guides for implementing alternative school breakfast and salad bar programs. School food staff can use our menu cycle planners to easily create USDA-compliant menus. They can also choose from over 195 healthy, kid-tested recipes that will automatically "explode" to the size and type of student population.
Site users can "Ask Ann" their school food questions, and the "Lunch Line" blog will provide news they can use. School food professionals can also access grant opportunities available from the Chef Ann Foundation, and sign up for the Lunch Box newsletter for updates on school food resources.
We'll be sure to notify you as soon as the new site goes live, so please keep an eye out for our next announcement...coming soon!
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