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Food Safety in School Nutrition Programs
As directors, you not only have to plan menus and supervise, you have to implement and maintain food safety. Food safety is highly monitored by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and an important part of your administrative review. On top of that,...
Software Made Simple: Health-e Pro’s Digital Menu Boards
We recently developed a new product that integrates with our Health-e Meal Planner product: My School Menu Boards-with the ability to publish within several minutes from your published, online menus. This new digital menu board software has a modern, user-friendly...
Where Our Health-e Giving Story With The Leader In Me and Hazel Dell Elementary Begins
When Health-e Pro’s Health-e Giving philanthropic initiative launched earlier this year, The Leader in Me was one of the charities selected to devote a portion of our money and time. The Leader in Me is an organization that inspired us. The organization works with...
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...
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...