Health-e Habits
Inspiring others to lead healthier lives
Blending Different Technology, Styles, and Ages in Your School Kitchen
In your school kitchen and among your staff, there is probably a wide range of ages and you constantly face the challenge of managers not being tech-savvy or maybe more tech-savvy than you! Health-e Pro is a menu planning software that works with that wide variety of...
Going to ANC 18? We’ll see you there!
Are you attending ANC 18 in Las Vegas this year? We are, and we’d love to see you there! ANC (Annual National Conference) is SNA’s School Nutrition event of the year! With over 7,000 attendees and hundreds of exhibitors in the second week of July, it’s bound to be...
Top 4 Ways to Leverage the Health-e Pro Support Team
Behind our Menu Planning Software is an exceptional Support Team that provides not only initial training, but continuous training to guide you through the program. We continually work at improving our software based on customer feedback and pride ourselves on...
School Nutrition Software: Through the Eyes of an R.D.
In today’s blog post, we talk school nutrition software with Kristen Lindorf, MS, RDN, who has spent her career as a consulting dietitian. Kristen has worked with everyone from state agencies to healthcare providers to hospitals to medical centers, and now works more...
The Art of School Lunchroom Design
We sat down with Founder and President of Health-e Pro, Meg Chesley, to discuss some of her time as a Food Service Director. What helps create an environment where kids want to eat their school lunch? How does the design of the school lunchroom impact the...
What Influences Kids To Eat School Lunch? Fresh. Fun. Fast. Familiar.
We sat down with Founder and President of Health-e Pro, Meg Chesley, to discuss some of her time as a Food Service Director. What helps create an environment where kids wants to eat their school lunch? Our conversation covered the four elements she found are essential...
Q&A with Meg Chesley on Scratch Cooking and Quick-Scratch Cooking in Schools
We sat down with Founder and President of Health-e Pro, Meg Chesley, to discuss some of her time as a Food Service Director. Our conversation covered scratch cooking and quick-scratch cooking and ways districts could incorporate each for their program. If you’re...
Health-e Giving Launched: How We Can Make a Difference, Together
One of videos we’re asked to watch when we start at Health-e Pro is Simon Sinek’s “Start With Why.” Getting to the why is vitally important: why do we do what we do as a company? How does that set us apart? Once you identify the why, the how, what, and when, naturally...
What does “USDA approved” mean for menu planning software?
USDA approved menu planning software has become a hot topic among Food Service Directors. New standards and targets are implemented while some are relaxed or temporarily waived. It can be difficult to keep them all straight and maintain consistent compliance in...
Earth Day: Going Paperless in School Nutrition
How are you celebrating Earth Day in your school? Or in your school cafeteria? In your district’s Nutrition Department? In preparing for Earth Day, we found a couple fascinating statistics related to paper: The U.S. paper disposal rate has not gone down appreciably...
