September 1, 2010

School Bells Are Ringing!

Kern High School District in Bakersfield, CA, welcomed their Food Service team back to school with a morning training that focused on the US Healthier School Challenge. Twenty interactive activities that targeted the Challenge's goals of increasing physical fitness, providing nutrition education, and improving food quality were organized throughout Frontier High School cafeteria. Divided into school teams, the staff rotated every fifteen minutes to allow them  all to participate in four of twenty activities like hula hooping and timed relay races; table top nutrition education games; hands-on food prep with food sculpting and a mini Iron Chef competition.  

How many minutes must you hula hoop to work off that morning snack? Can you do it?  Do you know your portion sizes and what you are really eating?       

Let's identify some new whole grains!            Liven up those serving lines with fruit and vegetable sculpting!