Welcome to another FoodPlay Friday!
Our new FOODPLAY troupe 2 hit the road this week, visiting schools in the New England area before heading off to Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, and beyond! Stage Manager Katie Chai is at the helm once again, with FOODPLAY veteran Keith Allen as Coach (you may remember him as last season’s Johnny) and newcomer Felicia Masias making her debut as Janey.
This week’s big nutrition news, of course, came from the USDA, who announced on Wednesday their new standards for school meals, including significantly increased requirements regarding fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Discussion online is lively, and though certainly some of it has been critical, it’s wonderful to see so many people talking about school lunch.
We’ll have more information to share about the new standards early next week, but in the meantime, let’s see what the healthy food blogosphere is feeding their kids for lunch!
The folks at Healthy Kids Challenge offer up 11 Healthy Quinoa Recipes for Kids. At Super Healthy Kids, Amy puts a refreshing twist on the good ol’ PB & J with these Peanut Butter and Jelly Crepes. Cory at Family Fresh Meals sets my bento-loving heart a-flame with this adorable owl-themed lunch. At Mom’s Kitchen Handbook, Katie Sullivan Morford takes a look at a couple of digital tools for smarter snacking and shopping. And Corrine Fischer at Keep Your Diet Real has some tips on choosing healthy beverages.
Speaking of school lunch, Lunchbox blogger Sunny Young posted a terrific write-up this week on Shelly Allen, Director of Nutrition for the St. Vrain Valley School District in Colorado, whose commitment to farm-to-school practices helps provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students in her district every day. It’s an inspiring article, well worth a read.
That’s all for this week! See you next FoodPlay Friday!
You guys totally telled us how to be healthy and you also tell us to don’t eat too much junk food.You also told us don’t drink coke and read the ingredients becouse it might say it’s pure fruit but it still may have sugar on it.So that’s why you have to read it before you eat it.piece out guys
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