Earth Day: Going Paperless in School Nutrition

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...
Procurement and Bids: A Q&A with Nadine Doetterl, SNS

Procurement and Bids: A Q&A with Nadine Doetterl, SNS

Nadine currently works with 1FS Schools, providing in-depth product information and bid collaboration software to school co-ops, districts and directors across the country.  She is also a consultant for companies that want to succeed in the K-12 segment along with...
What is National School Breakfast Week?

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...
Why does school menu planning require good data?

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...
New USDA Standards

New USDA Standards

USDA Announcement Provides Changes to Age Groups, Target 2 Sodium Standards and CACFP Standards for Meals. The USDA announced changes for the 2017-18 School Year to include the implementation of the Target 2 Sodium Standards for NSLP/SBP and changes to the CACFP...
Why Health-e Meal Planner?

Why Health-e Meal Planner?

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...