Podcasts about healthy school lunches

The Associate Education Minister says a revamped school lunches programme is better bang for buck.  Every student who received a free school lunch under the previous Government will still be fed, but the programme will save $107 million a year.  David Seymour told Kerre Woodham that instead of having multiple providers, schools will order lunches from an online portal.  He says they'll look less like couscous and quinoa, and more like sandwiches and fruit.   He says previously a quarter of a million lunches were being ordered each day, at a cost of $8.60, and the Government's going to get a much better deal than that.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Jeremy Silver, MD, Medical Director of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital, joins Dean for this week's health update. Dr. Silver begins by giving us the latest information regarding Covid-19, flu, and shingles vaccines. Additionally, he highlights the importance of packing healthy school lunches for your children.

Costs and delivery of Ka Ora, Ka Ako, the healthy school lunches programme, have been much discussed in recent weeks. Kate McNamara wrote a piece New Zealand Herald about the value for money of the school lunches programme. The cost of free school lunches is up to $325 million a year and best estimates are that we're feeding fewer than half the hungry school children in New Zealand. Co-Chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa Professor Boyd Swinburn wanted a chance to put his assessment of the programme to us and joined Kerre Woodham. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of Living Permaculture, host Jerome Osentowski welcomes Eden and Ben to chat about Colorado voters considering healthy school meals for all.

Maureen Pisanick is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Pisanick Partners, LLC a nutrition consulting firm servicing early childhood and K-12 foodservice programs.  She currently supports over 40 school districts in Northeast Ohio in creating and implementing a strategic improvement plan for their meal service programs. Mrs. Pisanick led one of the first schools in Ohio to win the HealthierUS Schools Challenge award in 2011.  Through her involvement in farm to school efforts, culinary training course development, and recipe and menu software analysis, she has created turn-key solutions for a niche market geared towards wellness and public health in Ohio.  She is often called upon to provide professional development training as a respected leader in the local and national school nutrition industry. Mrs. Pisanick is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Dietetic Internship.  She has worked in multiple sectors of nutrition to clinical in and outpatient dietetics at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, and the latter half of her career in school nutrition programs as both a food service director and consultant.  Maureen has served as the Team Nutrition USDA HealthierUS Schools Consultant for the Ohio Department of Education, as well as worked on the Smarter Lunchroom Team Nutrition Grant movement throughout the state.  She currently is a qualified regional trainer for the Institute of Child Nutrition in the area of allergy management and farm to school procurement in schools.  Maureen has held office positions for the local and state School Nutrition Association, and is an active member of SNA, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.   Throughout the pandemic, Maureen utilized networking and coaching to ensure a resilient pivot and continued provision of school meals during unprecedented school closures.  She also expanded her client reach by supporting Feeding San Diego, a Feeding America division providing services to some of the most at risk communities in southern California.   Maureen is the mother of two wonderful girls and maintains an active role in local and state school nutrition advocacy through her work and consulting.    Show Notes: When it comes to learning nutrition is one of the most important factors Hungry minds can't learn! School lunches can provide healthy options such as a produce bar and encourage the children to taste and “eat the rainbow!”  Maureen and I discuss the importance of a healthy school lunch to get families and children across the country start the school year off right! 

Another step towards healthier school lunches.The Government is seeking feedback on a plan to get unhealthy drinks out of primary and intermediate schools.If implemented, schools and Kura will only be required to only supply healthy drinks to years one to eight students the likes of water and milk.CEO of Libelle Group Johannes Tietze told Andrew Dickens good inroads have been already been made since the healthy school lunches programme was introduced two years ago.“Part of that agreement was to not include drinks in that because the understanding was that there's existing programmes and quite a strong movement by schools across the country to go water only.”LISTEN ABOVE

Elizabeth welcomes Sam Kass, former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition in the Obama administration. Today, Sam is a partner in Acre Venture Partners, investing in the future of food with a focus around climate change. Sam has a passion for an overall larger mission to help educate and empower others towards making healthy, sustainable, and environmentally friendly food choices. In the episode, Sam shares a few of his largest health campaigns to come out of the White House that he takes great pride in, how Michelle Obama helped healthy eating go even more mainstream, and he takes us back to his beginnings as a new chef in Vienna. Sam talks about how we can hold our private food companies more responsible, along with personal ways we can reduce waste and leave the planet in better condition. Finally, Sam talks about cooking for Oprah, a few of his own favorite recipes from his book Eat a Little Better, and how using more of your produce can help fund your next vacation. Sam: Twitter | Acre | Ted Talk | Instagram Mentioned: White House True Health Initiative 312 Chicago Do Good FoodsEat a Little Better Ozark Say Hi To Elizabeth and Purely Elizabeth: Website | Instagram

These 4 nutrition guidelines from the Licking County Health Dept will help you pack healthy school lunches.

Q. There has been some discussion lately regarding the handling of students with negative lunch accounts. What is Brenham ISD doing to address this? A. An automated phone call is placed each night to the phone number on record when a student has a negative meal account balance. A student with no money is allowed to charge up to three days’ worth of meals (3 breakfasts, 3 lunches) to give the household time to make a payment on the child’s account. Once the grace period is exhausted, the student receives a complete alternate meal consisting of a cheese sandwich entrée plus fruit, vegetable, and choice of milk and condiments free of charge. If a student receives four alternate meals, the household is personally contacted by the child nutrition department to identify their needs and connect them to assistance where possible. Q. Speaking of assistance, how can someone from the community help alleviate debt on student accounts? A. The Brenham ISD Child Nutrition Department has a donor account from which transfers can be made to pay off negative balances. Donations can be made to this account by contacting the child nutrition office at 979-277-3750. Q. As a parent, how can I see what my child’s account balance is and what my child has been spending their money on? A. You can create an EZSchoolPay account from the link on the Brenham ISD child nutrition website. This will allow you to see your child’s balance at any time. By clicking on your listed child, you can also see a report of all their transactions for the last month. Q. Is there a charge to set up EZSchoolPay? A. No, there is no charge to set up an account in EZSchoolPay. An EZSchoolPay account can be set up without entering any credit card information at all. Parents can also create an account for their child with no credit card associated with the account. The child can then download the EZSchoolPay app on their phone and log in to view the meal account balance at any time. Q. It’s almost National School Lunch Week. What is Brenham ISD doing to celebrate this week? A. This year’s National School Lunch Week is October 14-18. The superhero theme will focus on “Saving the Day with a Healthy School Lunch.” We will start each day with morning announcements to promote our super healthy food group of the day and at lunch, we will serve a variety of menu choices with special attention to the daily featured food group. These featured groups offer menu items that are essential to help support memory and provide vitamins such as vitamin C, provide protein for muscle development and strength, provide fiber for digestive health and B vitamins, plus calcium for bone building. Of course, no celebration is complete without a treat, so also this week, we will also offer a special super treat with lunch meals!

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In today’s post, I’m talking about why packing healthy school lunches is so hard and a few ways to make it easier. Ready to make this school year easier than ever? I’ll be sharing my 3 simple strategies for easy, healthy school lunches, which include: Give yourself parameters Prep ahead Keep it simple with (upgraded)... Read More The post 3 Simple Strategies for Easy, Healthy School Lunches appeared first on Cooking With a Full Plate.

“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – François de La Rochefoucauld   The goal for any kid’s lunch is to keep it easy to eat and full of nutritious food that helps them be present and productive during school day. I find the simpler and more repetitive lunch is, the more successful my kids feel in general. For children, lunch is a time to learn how to eat a meal away from parents. For smaller children, this starts with simple things like understanding the order in which to eat different foods, and how to open containers. For older children, this is about how to feel awesome about their homemade meal when others may be eating highly-processed foods. Time management is an important skill that can be learned through the school lunch process. Lunch is an opportunity to be social and schools generally don’t give it enough time, so navigating how to sit and get to eating and chewing is big! The more you can preview and talk through lunch at home, the more comfortable your kids will become. And do remember it is a learning process. Don’t punish uneaten lunches. Use them as an opportunity to understand what is going on and empower your child to do it differently next time, or for you to pack it differently. (Uneaten lunches do make a good snack.) Not all food tastes good packed in lunch. There are many healthy foods that don’t keep well when packed at 8 am, and by afternoon, they either look or taste awful. We’re going to consider all that as we go through the formulas and hopefully you’ll get a lot of strategies for different fruits and vegetables that stay fresh until lunch. I do want to  mention the importance of packing kids’ lunches if they are away for school each day. Very often, I fear, parents work so hard on the other meals throughout the day that lunch is a time to “let ourselves off the hook.” I don’t want to make anyone feel guilty if that is what they choose because I empathize with busy parents. I know that we are all doing the best we can. It is a privilege to be able to pack lunch when there are many families who need to elect to get free lunch. I challenge you to scrutinize the lunch menu at your child’s school and question if it’s the best choice for a healthy life. Maybe ask yourself: Does every meal have gluten? Does every meal have dairy? Is every meal highly processed? Does every meal have high sugar? Which meals are a little bit better? If you’re trying not to pack every lunch, are there certain days that make more sense than other days? If it’s a school where there is a choice, how can you empower your kids to choose the best things for themselves? That’s huge, as soon enough kids grow up, and move out of the house and become adults. They will have to live in the world independently and make their own decisions about food. How can you start influencing them now so that they will be prepared with valuable knowledge when that time comes? For younger kids, take into consideration that lunchtime at school can sometimes be stressful. Beyond food, other factors make lunchtime unique, like sitting at tables, socializing with other children, and eating without adult supervision. Depending on what the school’s set up is, lunchtime can be overwhelming, and occasionally opening up a lunchbox in front of friends can make a child feel vulnerable. Maybe their neighbors are eating differently or making different choices. It just opens up all sorts of things for kids. Empower your kids ahead of time so that lunch feels successful and they are confident around their peers, even at a young age. You can do that by explaining what’s in the lunchbox, and by sticking to that idea of rhythm. Now let’s make school lunch feel more doable. What can you plan for this weekend and next week that will help you make this part of your life easier? Here is the checklist, but it is also all packaged up above… Highlight the items that resonate and take action towards them this week. Get all the supplies – lunch boxes and containers that will make your child successful eating lunch at school. Get rid of containers that do not serve you, so they are not filling drawers. Create a rhythm for lunches, dip day, pasta day, leftover day etc., and then make a list of 5 variations of what can go in the box for each day. Create a stack of notes to send in lunch – explaining the food, or just saying “I love you.” Practice eating lunch on the weekends. Streamline your morning ritual to make lunch making feel easier. Make lunch-worthy sweet treats on the weekend. Mentor older kids to make their own healthy lunch. Come find the lunch post on Instagram, and let me know how your school lunch is going.

Handcut Foods and Healthy School Lunches with George Madzhirov by Jim Murphy

This week’s episode is all about heading back to school and getting back into routines. Kathryn and Elie talk routines and healthy snacks, and members of the Guelph Family Health Study share tips on getting kids ready for back to school! Episode Notes: Steps to Packing a Healthy School Lunch https://guelphfamilyhealthstudy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Healthy-School-Lunches-and-Snacks-edited-by-TA.pdf Tips for Feeding you Presechooler https://guelphfamilyhealthstudy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/How-Much-Should-a-Preschooler-Eat-edited-by-TA.pdf

It’s back to school time! Here’s some healthful, easy tips on packing wholesome lunches!

In episode 10, Jen and Corinne continue with their lunch-packing tips for younger kids from episode 9 and give additional tips for pre-teens, teenagers, and adults. They build on their 5 food group lunch packing formula, but with extra servings of veggies and proteins and also pull in tips for athletic kids, working parents and stay-at-home parents. Check the blog for more tips and details and check out these links to make lunch-packing easy-peasy and nutritious: https://wp.me/pTMHf-Z5

How do I pack and create healthy lunches for my kids at school when they don't have access to things like a microwave?

Kimera-Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about their most breath-taking experience, why phones are not allowed on workout floors, what they pack for school lunches for their kids (Sal & Justin) and what they believe that others may find insane. Sal sumo deadlifting again! (2:21) Bring back Protein Pudding! (5:20) Throwback Thursday! (11:00) Favorite childhood drinks and snacks Quah question #1 – What is the most breathtaking experience you have ever had? (30:20) www.brain.fm.com/mindpump, www.audibletrial.com/mindpump , www.getnatureblend.com/mindpump  Quah question #2 - Why do some gyms not allow phones on the floor? (40:51) Quah question #3 – For Sal and Justin, what do you pack for your kid's school lunches? (47:18) www.kimerkoffee.com Discount Code "mindpump" www.bengreefieldfitness.com/naturebite Discount Code "mindpump" Quah question #4 – What do you believe that others may think is insane? (55:09) Would you like to be coached by Sal, Adam & Justin? You can get 30 days of virtual coaching from them for FREE at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Get our newest program, MAPS Prime Pro, which shows you how to self assess and correct muscle recruitment patterns that cause pain and impede performance and gains. Get it at www.mindpumpmedia.com! Get MAPS Prime, MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, the Butt Builder Blueprint, the Sexy Athlete Mod AND KB4A (The MAPS Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Make EVERY workout better with MAPS Prime, the only pre-workout you need… it is now available at mindpumpmedia.com Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you via video instruction on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. Get your Kimera Koffee at www.kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off! Get Organifi, certified organic greens, protein, probiotics, etc at www.organifi.com Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off. Go to foursigmatic.com/mindpump and use the discount code “mindpump” for 15% off of your first order of health & energy boosting mushroom products. Add to the incredible brain enhancing effect of Kimera Koffee with www.brain.fm/mindpump 10 Free sessions! Music for the brain for incredible focus, sleep and naps! Also includes 20% if you purchase! Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Each week our favorite reviewers are announced on the show and sent Mind Pump T-shirts! Have questions for Mind Pump? Each Monday on Instagram (@mindpumpmedia) look for the QUAH post and input your question there. (Sal, Adam & Justin will answer as many questions as they can)

Kathryn interviews bestselling career author Vicky Oliver on her latest book “7 Ways to Become a People Person”. A recent study of 20,000 new hires found that nearly half of them (46 percent) failed within 18 months--and it wasn't because they lacked work skills. 89% of the time it was for attitudinal reasons: inability to be coachable and get along with others. Oliver is the author of five bestselling books on personal branding, etiquette, and career development. Kathryn also interviews nutritionist Dr. Keith Kantor, author of “The Green Box League of Nutritious Justice”. With the next school year just around the corner, parents are starting to plan for their children's future - starting with what their kids will eat for lunch every day. To help parents and kids together plan for healthy lunches, leading nutritionist Dr. Kantor created the award-winning book The Green Box League of Nutritious Justice. Dr. Kantor has been an advocate of natural food and healthy living for 27 years.

Kathryn interviews bestselling career author Vicky Oliver on her latest book “7 Ways to Become a People Person”. A recent study of 20,000 new hires found that nearly half of them (46 percent) failed within 18 months--and it wasn't because they lacked work skills. 89% of the time it was for attitudinal reasons: inability to be coachable and get along with others. Oliver is the author of five bestselling books on personal branding, etiquette, and career development. Kathryn also interviews nutritionist Dr. Keith Kantor, author of “The Green Box League of Nutritious Justice”. With the next school year just around the corner, parents are starting to plan for their children's future - starting with what their kids will eat for lunch every day. To help parents and kids together plan for healthy lunches, leading nutritionist Dr. Kantor created the award-winning book The Green Box League of Nutritious Justice. Dr. Kantor has been an advocate of natural food and healthy living for 27 years.

Like Autism Live on Facebook at http://facebook.com/autismlive    Autism Mom Shannon Penrod shares some tips for packing healthy, tasty snacks for school – without sugar or artificial food colors!  It’s easy if you just think of the three c’s!   Autism Live is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), headquartered in Tarzana, California, and with offices throughout, the United States and around the globe. For more information on therapy for autism and other related disorders, visit the CARD website at http://centerforautism.com

Heather Burgiss checks out the North Carolina Farm to School program that connects schools statewide with farmers as they try to change school lunches to locally sourced options. All school districts in North Carolina have the ability to be part of the initiative that now includes strawberries, watermelons, cantaloupes, several varieties of apples, slicing and grape tomatoes, sweet potatoes, red and green cabbage, and broccoli, apple slices, sweet potato sticks, and blueberrries that are locally grown on North Carolina farms. (Wake, Wilson and Johnston Counties)

Heather Burgiss checks out the North Carolina Farm to School program that connects schools statewide with farmers as they try to change school lunches to locally sourced options. All school districts in North Carolina have the ability to be part of the initiative that now includes strawberries, watermelons, cantaloupes, several varieties of apples, slicing and grape tomatoes, sweet potatoes, red and green cabbage, and broccoli, apple slices, sweet potato sticks, and blueberrries that are locally grown on North Carolina farms. (Wake, Wilson and Johnston Counties)

The NC Forestry Service manages a self-supporting tree nursery that sells 15 million trees a year. The Farm to School program works with farmers across the state to provide healthy, locally-produced school lunch options. And the Alexander Youth Network marks a milestone in children's mental health care.

With special guest Nancy Massotto, founder and executive director of Holistic Moms Network in the studio, we had a great time talking about the start of another healthy, fun and green school year.

We continue our series on NC's community colleges with Vance-Granville Community College. Dr. Elizabeth Mayer-Davis talks about the importance healthy eating as kids go back to school. St. Andrews Summer Camp offers participants an educational & entertaining experience.

John Voelcker gave us a power-packed special report on the latest and greatest from the recent Detroit Car Show. So much great information, so little time! However, we did manage to squeeze in an excellent GD Correspondent report from Green Diva Marie out in Los Angeles, CA.

Jane Bianchi from Family Circle is here to talk about Healthy School Lunches.  Debi Silber, aka The Mojo Coach one of our Fitness Experts talks about how childhood obesity starts with mom. Jennifer Huebner Davidson, Manager of AAA Traffic Safety Programs reminds us that, America’s children are heading back to school; keep them safe by driving cautiously through school zones.  The Mom’s Roundtable talks about having 2 under 2 (2 children under the age of 2) and Molly Gold, talks about Blocking time to volunteer during the school year and creative options that can make a big difference.

Jane Hersey, Director of The Feingold Association and author of "What Are All Those Funny Things in Food? And Should I Eat Them?" and "Why Can't My Child Behave" will present eye-opening information that will provide a very basic understanding about how the food we select can affect us, including behavior and learning; astonishing information on brand foods to avoids and why; information on both harmful and healthy sugar substitutes; eating healthy on a budget; and her latest passion, how to provide our children with healthy school lunches for less money. I wish I could tell you more, but I do not want to spoil the show. Tune in! Visit my blog at carlaspacher.com

Jane Hersey, Director of The Feingold Association and author of "What Are All Those Funny Things in Food? And Should I Eat Them?" and "Why Can't My Child Behave" will present eye-opening information that will provide a very basic understanding about how the food we select can affect us, including behavior and learning; astonishing information on brand foods to avoids and why; information on both harmful and healthy sugar substitutes; eating healthy on a budget; and her latest passion, how to provide our children with healthy school lunches for less money. I wish I could tell you more, but I do not want to spoil the show. Tune in! Visit my blog at carlaspacher.com

Episode 15: Chef Kate Adamick, of Food Systems Solutions LLC and consultant to the Orfalea Fund’s s’Cool Food Initiative, talks about the link between our food system and the health of the planet and our kids.