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Is Your School’s Website in ADA Compliance?
Have you been hearing more about ADA compliance lately? Some states have strict rules that are being enforced regarding ADA compliance. In order to make sure you and your district are ADA compliant, we want to run through a quick primer to help. ADA (Americans with...
What is National School Breakfast Week?
National School Breakfast Week, referred to as NSBW, promotes the importance of healthy choices for breakfast by getting parents and students involved. Through social media, newsletters and various other channels, parents are encouraged to learn more about their local...
Will 2018 Food Trends Make Their Way to Schools?
We recently discussed some food trends we saw in schools in 2017, and with a month of 2018 under our belts, we’re now going to tackle 2018 food trends. Some of 2017’s food trends in school will inform what we anticipate in 2018: bold, international flavors were big in...
Why does school menu planning require good data?
When you think of school menu planning, you think of food: pizza, chicken fingers, vegetables, salads. How often do you think of data when you think of school menu planning? Probably not as much. Data is absolutely vital to running a strong, seamless foodservice...
Behind the Scenes: Tips to Passing Administrative Review Part 2
Last week’s blog detailed Linsey LaPlant’s experience as an administrative reviewer for Washington state, as well as her advice to those going through an administrative review. In the second part of this two-part series, Linsey shares her overall takeaway for those...
Behind the Scenes: Tips to Passing Administrative Review Part 1
In today’s blog post, we interviewed Linsey LaPlant, Sales Manager at Health-e Pro, given her fascinating career that has run the gamut within the food and nutrition industry. Here she details her varied experiences as someone who has both performed an Administrative...
2017 School Nutrition Trends
The year of 2017 has been one for a lot of improvements and innovations in the school nutrition industry. We will review the 2017 school nutrition trends and show you how Health-e Pro can help keep you moving forward into 2018. 2017 Menu Trends Introducing bold,...
Special Diets & Gluten-Free School Menus: How You Can Help
Allergies and special diets have increased both the awareness of and need for allergen-specific and gluten-free school menus. Some of these allergies and intolerances can be very severe, with a wide range of symptoms: vomiting, stomach cramps, brain fog, mood swings,...
Highly Refined Soybean Oil Not Allergenic
This article can be found here as part of the Soy Connection Newsletter. Posted with permission. The U.S. Food Allergen Labeling & Consumer Protection Act (FALCPA) mandates labeling of all ingredients derived from commonly allergenic foods. In the United States,...
How Would You Improve This Recipe?
Check Here to See How You Did: Descriptive Recipe Title: The first word should always be the common name because that is the best way to search for the recipe. Following the common name, you should include descriptive terms of the product; such as, canned, frozen,...
