31 Days of #RealSchoolFood: Chef Robert is a #RealSchoolHero
The School Nutrition Foundation recently announced its 2015 School Nutrition Hero Awards. Chef Robert Rusan from Richmond-Maplewood Heights School District in Maplewood, Missouri, is one of the...
View Article31 Days of #RealSchoolFood: Holiday Fruits and Veggies = FUN
Social media has been full of holiday food art. Even ChooseMyPlate.gov got into the act with a very fun snowman sandwich on popcorn snow next to a pea pod tree. While there’s plenty of cute Christmas...
View Article31 Days of #RealSchoolFood: What Makes Fantastic #FoodArt?
If you like fun food and spend any time on Pinterest or even Facebook (especially on school lunch bento box pages), you may have already over-dosed on holiday cuteness. I myself have blogged about...
View Article31 Days of #RealSchoolFood: Peas on Earth
Now that the holiday hustle is almost over and food comas are common throughout the land, it is time to begin looking toward 2015. New Year’s Day is but a week away and, before you know it, it will be...
View Article31 Days of #RealSchoolFood: Success Starts with the Recipe
On December 4, 2014, I had the privilege and pleasure of presenting a USDA Foods webinar – Anatomy of Standardized Recipe: Finding and Creating School Recipes for Success with USDA Foods – with Malissa...
View Article31 Days of #RealSchoolFood: #MustHave Recipe Resources
There are many excellent resources for standardized school recipes – from USDA, NFSMI, state Team Nutrition Programs (ex., Michigan and Iowa), food companies (ex., Norpac Foods) and producer commodity...
View Article31 Days of #RealSchoolFood: Recipes from Commodity Boards
By Dayle Hayes, MS, RD Just three more days to wrap up 31 Days of #RealSchoolFood – and I want to continue sharing school recipe resources. There’s no reason to spend time reinventing recipes that have...
View Article31 Days of #RealSchoolFood: Protein Recipes for Success
If you’d like a few new entrées for your 2015 menus, I have three resources that you should definitely check out. At school (and home), proteins are usually at the center of the tray or plate. With...
View Article10 Ways School Lunch Haters Can Get Off Their Soapboxes and Support...
By Dayle Hayes, MS, RD To all the mommy bloggers, food celebrities, academic researchers, restaurant chains and media channels who want to blame School Lunch for the ills of the US food system (while...
View Article10 Reasons to Ignore School Lunch Haters and Support #RealSchoolFood
By Dayle Hayes, MS, RD To all the mommy bloggers, food celebrities, academic researchers, restaurant chains and media channels who want to blame School Lunch for the ills of the US food system (while...
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