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YUM-O! empowers kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking.
Sweet potatoes are one of the most nutritious and tasty vegetables you can eat! You can enjoy this recipe as-is, or jazz it up by adding in 1/4 cup maple syrup or 1 chipotle in adobo sauce. Try serving with Creole Meatloves with Trinity Gravy.
Serves 4-6
This exciting and fun-to-prepare meal has whole grains and fresh vegetables, making it both a delicious and nutritious meal for you and your family. You can also swap in or add Vegetarian “Veg-Head” Beans as a vegetarian option.
This dish was served in over 1600 New York City school's as part of Yum-o!'s collaboration with the New York City Department of Education's Office of SchoolFood!
Serves 4
Baked and bubbly, this combination of ingredients is irresistible! For a vegetarian meal, use tofu sausage.
Serves 4-6
We're hearing more and more often that we should be incorporating whole grains into our diets, but what's an easy way to do it? And what are whole grains, anyway? The Whole Grains Council helps you find whole grain foods and understand why they're important in a healthy diet .
Check out their resources for adding whole grains to your meals at home and at school!
If you look up Chef Seth Bixby Daugherty, you'll find him on the cover of a 2005 Food & Wine magazine naming him one of America's 10 best new chefs. But when he saw first-hand the food that his children were eating at school, "Chef Seth" turned his focus to revamping school cafeteria menus by founding a nonprofit organization called Real Foods Initiatives.
Learn more about Chef Seth's Real Foods Initiatives and his mission to get kids to eat real food.
Better School Food is a group of dedicated parents, educators and health professionals committed to working with local communities to improve meals and increase awareness of the connection between good food, good health and a student's ability to learn effectively.
Find out how you can start improving the food served in your school cafeteria and form and action plan for better food and healthier kids.
Growing up, Shawn DeMartino, of Yarmouthport, MA, struggled with being overweight. He reached his turning point at age 11, when he collapsed running the mile at his school's field day. Since then, he's taught himself to cook healthy meals and gotten active, participating in horseback riding and on his school's sports teams. He's now a fit, healthy teen who hopes to one day host his own cooking show.
Learn how Shawn turned his life around by learning how to cook and getting fit.
Do you have a picky eater in your house? In Night of the Veggie Monster, a little boy is such a picky eater that he turns into a "veggie monster" if a pea even touches his lips!
Inspired by the antics of his son, Samuel, George McClements wrote this fun-filled, creative book to show parents and kids that veggies aren't so scary after all. And the illustrations made from collages of photos and drawings might even inspire you to create a book of your own! Read more, here.
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