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Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools!

Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools!. Arizona Nutrition Network Partners Meeting August 25, 2011 Hope Wilson, MPH,RD Coordinated School Health Manager Arizona Department of Health Services.

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Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools!

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  1. Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools! Arizona Nutrition Network Partners Meeting August 25, 2011 Hope Wilson, MPH,RD Coordinated School Health Manager Arizona Department of Health Services

  2. OBJECTIVEProvide information about Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools and identify how this and similar programs and initiatives can support Arizona Nutrition Network activities.

  3. Our Salad Bar

  4. LET’S MOVE! Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched in February 2010 by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation.

  5. LET’S MOVE!

  6. White House Task Force On Childhood Obesity

  7. www.letsmove.gov/chefs-move-schools

  8. www.letsmove.gov/become-lets-move-city-or-town

  9. www.letsmove.gov/lets-move-outside

  10. www.doi.gov/letsmove/indiancountry/index.cfm

  11. www.imls.gov/about/letsmove.aspx

  12. Physical Activity Break (Integrated into Nutrition Education) Taken from Shape of Yoga Network for a Healthy California http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/cpns/Documents/Network-ShapeofYoga.pdf

  13. Our Salad Bar

  14. White House Task Force On Childhood Obesity

  15. LET’S MOVE! Salad Bars to Schools

  16. Why Salad Bars? 1. When a variety of fruits and vegetables choices are offered in a school fruit and vegetable salad bar, students: - Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables - Try new items and incorporate greater variety into their diets - Learn to make decisions that carry over outside of school, providing a platform for a lifetime of healthy snack and meal choices 2. White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity has endorsed using salad bars and upgrading cafeteria equipment to provide healthier foods to kids 3. The Institutes of Medicine concluded that schools need to add as many as two servings of fruits and vegetables daily to meals in order to meet children's basic health requirements

  17. All Schools participating in NSLP can apply Steps: 1. Submit Completed Application 2. Application Approved for Funding 3. Salad Bar Webpage for your District/School Goes Live 4. The Initiative and Your Community Raise funds for Your Salad Bars 5. Once Funded, Your Salad Bar is Ordered for Shipment 6. Your Children Eat More Fruits and Vegetables www.saladbars2schools.org

  18. What do schools get? The Salad Bar is: • A portable 72 inch, 5-well insulated salad bar with two tray slides; • divider bars; • two 4-inch deep full pans with covers; • four 4-inch deep half pans with covers; • and twelve 4-inch deep quarter pans with covers; • five buffet chilling pads; • 16 serving tongs

  19. saladbars2schools.org

  20. Donations

  21. Donations

  22. Resources

  23. The LunchBox www.thelunchbox.org

  24. Broccoli Lunge Taken from Shape of Yoga Network for a Healthy California http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/cpns/Documents/Network-ShapeofYoga.pdf

  25. Our Salad Bar

  26. ADHS partnered with the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) and the School Nutrition Association of Arizona (SNAAZ) • Small grant from ASTPHND to do a state-wide training project • Presenting at the SNAAZ Pre-conference • Regional trainings in northern and southern AZ • Video and support materials online following trainings AZ Arizona Champions for Change: Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools

  27. Trainings will be primarily for food service directors with emphasis on: • USDA/ADE rules and regs • Food safety • Purchasing strategies • Local success stories • Marketing healthy foods • Nutrition education AZ Arizona Champions for Change: Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools

  28. HealthierUS School Challenge • Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program • DoD Fresh • USDA Foods • Farm to School More Opportunities Programs Schools Can Use to Purchase Fruits and Vegetables or Improve Meals

  29. More fruits and vegetables • More variety • Only low-fat milk: 1% or less • Reduction in sodium • Calorie maximum More Opportunities National School Lunch and Breakfast Standards

  30. More OpportunitiesPolicy Changes and Regulations Local Wellness Policies USDA Memo Released in Early July ADE Memo Expected Very Soon Includes new requirements about involving parents and community. Making the document public. Nutrition Promotion

  31. More OpportunitiesPolicy Changes and Regulations www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Governance/Legislation/CNR_2010.htm

  32. Salad Bar Options Featured Produce Activities or Harvest of the Month Other Network Lessons / Fruit and Vegetable Ed Materials Food Demos or Taste Testing Food Dare Lesson

  33. How Will You Fill Your Salad Bar? Discuss with someone near you some nutrition education opportunities that you might explore with salad bars, Let’s Move Initiatives, new policy changes.

  34. Apple Tree Taken from Shape of Yoga Network for a Healthy California http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/cpns/Documents/Network-ShapeofYoga.pdf

  35. Our Salad Bar

  36. Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools Flyer

  37. THANK YOU! Contact Information: Hope Wilson (602) 642-1879 Hope.Wilson@azdhs.gov

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