School Meals

Tips

• Tips for Parents (CSPI)
• Tips for Educators (CSPI)
• Tips for School Business Officers (CSPI)
• No or Low Cost Policies to Support a Healthy School Nutrition Environment  (CSPI)
• Tips for Making Healthy Lunches for Less (CSPI)
• Tips on Getting Kids to Eat Healthier Meals (CSPI)
• Tips for School Food Service Professionals (CSPI)
• Thank You Letter to School Food Service/Administrators - DOCX (CSPI)

Policy options

• Healthy School Meals, Snacks, and Beverages: State and Local Policy Options (CSPI)
• Create a State Plan to Support Healthy School Nutrition Environments (NANA)

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA)

• USDA Fact Sheet on HHFKA
• New School Meals: Frequently Asked Questions (USDA)
• Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act Fact Sheet (NANA)
• Costs and Revenues of the New School Meal Standards (NANA/CSPI)

General

• USDA Healthier School Day Website
• HealthierUS School Challenge (USDA)
• Step Up to the Plate for School Meals: American Heart Association
• Healthy School Meals Resource System (USDA)
• School Lunches Are Getting Healthier — The Facts (video) (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• How to Support Kids’ Nutrition in Your Child’s School (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• Healthy School Food Standards Make 5 Successes Possible (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• Healthy School Lunches Improve Kids’ Habits (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• Americans' Views on School Food and Child Nutrition (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• Parents Support Healthier School Food Standards (infographic) (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• Child Nutrition: Nourishing Minds and Bodies Curriculum (to access this module, user must create free account on Alliance for a Healthier Generation)
• Webinar: Maximizing Marketing Potential for School Meal Programs (Alliance for a Healthier Generation and Smarter Lunchrooms Movement)
• Smarter Lunchrooms Movement

Sodium

• Infographic: Confused About Salt? (CSPI)
• Fact Sheet on Sodium (CSPI)
• Making Sense of the Science on Sodium (NANA/American Heart Association)
• Lowering Sodium in School Foods (American Heart Association)
• Lower Sodium Products for School Meals (NANA)
• Webinar: Clearing Up Confusion on Sodium (CSPI/CDC/American Heart Association)
• Halt the Salt: From Bland to Brilliant (to access this module, user must create free account on Alliance for a Healthier Generation)

Calories

• Calories in School Lunches (CSPI)
• Calories Before/After the New Standards (CSPI)
• What a Proper Lunch Looks Like (CSPI)
• 850 Calories is Enough (CSPI)

School Food Waste

• School Food Waste (infographic) (USDA)
• What You Can Do To Help Prevent Wasted Food (USDA)
• Studies on Food Waste (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• Study: “New School Meal Regulations Increase Fruit Consumption and Do Not Increase Total Plate Waste” (Rudd Center)
• Study: “Impact of the New U.S. Department of Agriculture School Meal Standards on Food Selection, Consumption, and Waste” (Harvard School of Public Health)

School Lunch Participation

• School Lunch Participation Fact Sheet (CSPI)
  • School Lunch Participation Infographic (CSPI)

USDA Foods (Commodities)

• NANA Fact Sheet on USDA Foods
• USDA Fact Sheet on USDA Foods
• USDA video on USDA Foods