Bring Healthier Food to Your School With The Lunch Box
Whole Foods Market has teamed up with renegade lunch lady Ann Cooper to create The Lunch Box, an online resource that seeks to help schools serve healthier food to students.
Knowing that schools need more than healthy menus to overhaul a bad lunch program, The Lunch Box covers all the bases (though it’s got plenty of recipes that come complete with nutritional information, too!). Featuring technical tools, financial modeling, educational manuals, and marketing materials, the website has everything schools need to lay the foundation for healthier student meals. Additionally, The Lunch Box will house a blog and discussion forum to encourage teachers, administrators, and school communities to support each other and and exchange ideas. “We hope this website is the go-to place [when it comes to improving school food,” says Chef Ann.
While there’s already plenty of information available on the website, Chef Ann says plenty more is on the way. “We have some other partners that we’re beginning to work with. We’ve really just begun on this site–we’ll be building extensively over the next 18 months,” she says.
Want to learn more about ways to make your school healthier and greener? Check out MyHealthySchool.com.
-Marygrace, KIWI Staffer
Tags: ann cooper, healthy school, school lunch, whole foods
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I love that schools have resources to ensure they are providing healthier lunch options. I currently pack my kindergartener’s lunch but there will be days where she will be relying on the school’s hot lunch option … so it’s important to me to know that the school provides healthy options. How do we get the school to provide healthier options?
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