![]() ![]() The Alliance and SNA will work throughout the coming year to inform, educate and activate school food service professionals across the country through promotional campaigns, webinars, speaking engagements and educational materials – all with a goal of increasing the availability of healthier options to students in every school in the country. ![]() ![]() In an effort to educate school food service professionals about the availability of these recipes and a multitude of other free tools and resources for healthier school meals, the Alliance is announcing a new collaboration with the School Nutrition Association (SNA). Parents and school staff can access Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! school meal recipes by visiting the Alliance’s website at Additionally, Yum-o! has created “at-home” versions of these recipes, which will be available on the website, so kids and their families can recreate the meals in their own kitchens.Īlong with the recipes, parents and school staff will get shopping lists and nutritional information for each recipe, best practices for preparing, introducing and serving these recipes to students. Recipes available for school food service professionals include Southwestern Turkey Cobb Salad, Silly Chili con Fusilli, Orange You Glad it’s Glazed Chicken and Noodles, Turkey Tacos and Mexi-Mac and Cheese. The recipes are based on increased lean protein, whole grains, fruits, vegetables and low-fat and fat-free dairy in addition to reduced total fat, saturated fat and sodium levels. Ray’s healthy school recipes provide a strong nutritional foundation for students, many of whom eat at least one cafeteria meal each school day. “The recipes Rachael Ray, Yum-o! and the Alliance created not only got rave reviews from the students, but they are created in a way that is easy and affordable to make from a school food service perspective.” Foundation of a healthy school meal “We are always looking for fun and innovative ways to introduce healthier options to students,” says Sal Valenza, food service director at a West New York, New Jersey school who piloted the recipes with his students. The collaboration between Ray and her organization Yum-o! with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a natural fit, as the Alliance’s Healthy Schools Program is one of the largest school-based childhood obesity programs in the country, supporting more than 12,000 schools in their efforts to create healthier places for students to learn and staff to work. The success of that program led to Ray’s desire to bring her healthy recipes to schools across the United States. Ray first began to provide recipes to schools in a partnership with the New York City Department of Education in 2009. ![]() “I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and provide schools nationwide with nutritious recipes that kids will enjoy eating.” Yum-O! for all “Getting students excited about the food they eat in school and giving them access to flavorful choices made with more fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains is so important when it comes to teaching them about making healthy food choices,” says Ray. The recipes were created specifically for easy preparation in a school setting, meet the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s school nutrition guidelines (which meet or exceed USDA guidelines) and were taste-tested and approved in real school kitchens with real kids. Clinton Foundation) have collaborated to create healthy school food recipes that will be available for free to every school in the country. In celebration of September’s National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, television personality, author and founder of the Yum-o! organization, Rachael Ray and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation (which is a non-profit founded by the American Heart Association and the William J. A healthy collaboration for school nutrition ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |