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.
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 8-12, 2021. . . . Don’t forget to include our flagship brand, Breakfast BREAKS, on your breakfast menu.
In a news release issued this week by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), the organization says that its annual School Breakfast Scorecard report underscores school breakfast participation as critical in combatting childhood hunger and learning loss caused by COVID-19.