Fruit and Veggie Success

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Fruit and Veggie Success

• Indiana Department of Education
• Division of School and Community Nutrition
  Programs
• October 6, 2006

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What is SUCCESS?

• The definition of success--To laugh much to win
  respect of intelligent persons and the affections
  of children to earn the approbation of honest
  critics and endure the betrayal of false friends
  to appreciate beauty to find the best in others
  to give ones self to leave the world a little
  better, whether by a healthy child, a garden
  patch, or a redeemed social condition to have
  played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with
  exultation to know even one life has breathed
  easier because you have lived--this is to have
  succeeded.
• -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Objectives

• Identify resources and provide ideas for
  promoting the FFVP
• Provide examples of nutrition education
  activities for school food service
• Explore partnership with local growers
• Discover ways to give fruits veggies appeal
• Share successes
• Identify ways to manage and sustain the FFVP

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Success in Promotion and Nutrition Education
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Promotion

• No funds available for promotional activities
• BE CREATIVE
• Include the entire school community from parents
  to administrators

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Teachers and Administrators

• Use the brochure provided
• Communication is key
• Share resources with teacher
• Be good role models
• Make teachers aware of special events

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Parents

• Brochures
• Share special events in newsletters
• Tips for newsletter or school menus
• Announcements at after-school activities

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Students

• Menus
• Morning announcement
• Help with delivery of fruits veggies
• Poster contest
• -slogan, favorite fruits veggies, why you
  should eat fruits veggies

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Nutrition Education

• May purchase items using Administrative Funds
  (10 of total grant)
• Check with Lisa before you buy the item if you
  are unsure if it is reimbursable

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Nutrition Education

• School Food Service
• Classroom

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Ideas for Food Service

• Use table tents, displays, posters
• Invite local chefs to participate in food
  demonstrations
• Make a nutrition resource cart that can be loaned
  out to parents, teachers, or kids
• Plan an activity for each week of the month

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Ideas for Food Service

• Use vendors as resources
• Hold Produce and a movie for schools that dont
  offer breakfast
• Have cafeteria staff dressed up on designated day
  as a fruit or vegetable
• Have a mystery fruit or veggie of the week

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Ideas for Food Service

• Allow the children to vote for the next f/v
  they will receive
• Jazz up the names of your f/v menu items

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Resources for Food Service

• Team Nutrition Resources
• http//teamnutrition.usda.gov/library.html

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Team Nutrition Resources

• Fruits and Vegetables Galore
• MyPyramid Resources

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MyPyramid and US Dietary Guidelines

• MyPyramid
• www.mypyramid.gov
• US Dietary Guidelines
• http//www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines/

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Harvest of the Month

• http//www.harvestofthemonth.com/

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Harvest of the Month

• Toolkit Elements -- Menu Slicks

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ACTIVITY
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Classroom

• All classrooms and all grade levels
• Example Floating orange
• FFVP Resource Guide from Partner Web

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Classroom

• Team Nutrition Resources
• http//teamnutrition.usda.gov/library.html
• -Fruit and Vegetable Challenge Packet
• -Ideas for Elementary, Middle, and High
  Schools

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Food Safety

• Make sure the FFVP is included in your school
  food safety plan
• Safe Handling of Raw Produce and Fresh-Squeezed
  Fruit and Vegetable Juices
• http//www.cfsan.fda.gov/dms/prodsafe.html

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Food Safety

• www.fightbac.org

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Contact Information

• Lisa Graves, MS, RD
• Team Nutrition Consultant
• E-mail lgraves_at_doe.state.in.us
• Beth Foland, MS, RD, CD
• Team Nutrition Projects Manager
• E-mail efoland_at_doe.state.in.us
• Call 317-232-0850 (local)
• 1-800-537-1142 (toll free)
• Website http//doe.state.in.us/food