by Laura Thompson | Sep 11, 2017 |
On April 25, 2016, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service set forth new guidelines for the CACFP meal patterns for schools, going into effect October 1, 2017. Recently, the USDA issued a memo offering a transition period of one year for schools to adapt to the new...
by Meg Chesley | Aug 30, 2017 |
After 22 years working in school foodservice and nutrition, I decided to start a consulting company in 2002. I had been conducting customer service training in school districts nationwide, designing dining rooms in my district and generally having a blast for 22 years...
by Laura Thompson | Jul 13, 2017 |
A recent article highlighted the importance of efficient and effective school menu planning. This school district in California reinvented its school lunch program and not only increased the nutrition of its meals for students, but saved money and reduced its carbon...
by Meg Chesley | May 2, 2017 |
Why Health-e Meal Planner? …because we believe that menu planning drives your business. When you get right down to it, your menu is sitting in the driver’s seat of your school foodservice program. Imagine your day without a menu! Your customers wouldn’t...
by Renelle Leinbach | Apr 12, 2017 |
Banishing the #1 Challenge to Administrative Review Compliance Are you stressing over your upcoming administrative review? As a multi-state reviewer over the past 5 years, I’ve looked at hundreds of menus across the United States and they all seem to have one thing in...
by Kari Day | Apr 12, 2017 |
When we think of making a menu that kids will like, we think of pizza, hamburgers, burritos, and pasta. We think of pancakes, waffles, muffins, and sweet rolls. We think of things common to the standard American diet. Unfortunately for someone who has Celiac disease,...
