To encourage more families to take advantage of the healthy choices available with school breakfast, school districts across the country will celebrate National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) during March 7-11, 2022. This year’s theme is “Take Off with School Breakfast,” reminding the entire school community that school breakfast provides a healthy and energizing start to the day for students.
I know you’re aware of, and likely involved in, the many challenges facing school foodservice as students head back to school this year—everything from supply chain issues to Covid-19 concerns. Challenges include staffing issues, social distancing, site shutdowns, and limited time for meal service. . . . E S Foods can offer a key solution to many of these challenges: Pre-Packaged Meals.
The top story in last week’s SNA SmaratBrief, the weekly School Nutrition Association online newsletter, was an article featured in The Conversation that describes how free school meals have improved outcomes in students’ health, reduced stigma around free meals, and provided benefits for overall school foodservice operations.
23 Heroes! While this number seems arbitrary, those chosen to win certainly were not! Yes, of course, we are all too well aware of the fact that there are hundreds, no thousands of deserving School Lunch Heroes. Started by SNA several years ago, Annual School Lunch Hero Day is celebrated May 7 this year and we wanted to honor our hardworking heroes.