Promoting Fruits and Vegetables

Resources for Food Service

Fruits and Vegetables Galore: Helping Kids Eat More A tool for school foodservice professionals packed with tips on planning, purchasing, protecting, preparing, presenting and promoting fruits and vegetables. This resource is free online or ordered as a hard copy and includes the following sections:

Meal Appeal-Attracting Customers
Quality Food for Quality Meals-Buying Fruits and Vegetables
Tricks of the Trade-Preparing Fruits and Vegetables

Wake Up to Fresh Fruits and Veggies A user friendly web-based training program designed for school food service personnel to support addition of fruits and vegetables to breakfast offerings for students. Has many resources and tips for sourcing, promoting, storing, and serving fresh fruits and vegetables in a school setting. View the site outline for a summary of modules. Wake Up to FFV Promotional Flyer

Harvest of the Month Menu Slicks Promote fruits and vegetables on your menu.

USDA's Team Nutrition

There is something for everyone working to promote nutrition education. Start here http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/ and find grants, educator resources, food service resources, games and more.

Network for A Healthy California Resources

“Power Play” Campaign resources to help educate, motivate, and empower 9- to 11-year-old children to eat fruits and vegetables and be physically active
Children's Power Play Campaign Regional Contacts connect with regional promoters who serve 4th and 5th grade student
Harvest of the Month http://www.harvestofthemonth.com Monthly educator newsletters and other downloadable reproducibles to help promote seasonal fruits and vegetables. 36 different produce items.
Network for a Healthy California Regional Networks connect with others working towards building healthy communities

Handouts from FFVCHSE Trainings

Promotions that Bring the Community Together Worksheet used in FFVCHSE training to create a school-wide promotion.
Whole School Community Cross Promotions - How Ventura USD organized activities in several classes to cross-promote fruit and vegetable consumption in the cafeteria
Try It You'll Like It Lesson Kids create a promotional campaign for a fruit or vegetable. A lesson from Life Lab's The Growing Classroom.
Oranges the Perfect Product - A unique way of describing fruit by Joan Dye Gussow
An Array of Promotions Ideas from the Wake Up to Fresh Fruits and Vegetables site

Shake it Up! With Fruits and Vegetables Music CD
Harvesting HEALTH is a compilation of lessons and resources that foster nutrition education through gardening concepts highlighting seasonal produce specific to the Northcoast Region.

Taste Testing Forms and Resources for Evaluating Recipes

Rate the Taste Chart Taken from Children’s Power Play for 4th-5th Graders
Life Lab’s Vegetable Judging Form
Life Lab's Comparative Tasting Form Download
Kids Cook Farm Fresh Comparative Tasting Format
CookingWithKids.net Extensive Resources on Taste Testing with Kids
Taste Testing and Evaluating Recipes Resources from Team Nutrition

What is in Season?

California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom Seasonal Harvest Graph
Seasonal Fruit and Vegetable Gadget http://www.fourthfloorequipment.com/gadget_seasonal.html#
Harvest of the Month's 36 different produce items.

Fun

Fruit and Veggie Color Champions website for kids and educators with downloadable coloring sheets, recipes, printable stickers, party kits, and more.
Books by Joost Ellfers – Play with your Food, Play with Pumpkins, How are you Peeling
Video: Balboa High School's Fruity Girls serve up fresh fruits and veggies at their school.
Images from Carl Warner

Healthy School Environment

Promoting Fruits and Vegetables

Taste Testing Forms and Resources for Evaluating Recipes

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