EDIBLE EDUCATION
Slicing up Inspiration for your Menu and More!
Looking for a little inspiration to help boost your menu? Welcome to our column featuring bites of nutrition knowledge and insight for your team’s menu creation needs | Pisanick Partners
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Interested in the benefits of a cycle menu? What defines a “workhorse recipe” in your cafeteria? Check out this industry conversation with Lynn Shavinsky from Health-e Pro on Financial Fitness goals for the New Year for sign-up to view their training session on Financial Fitness .
Looking for a little inspiration to help boost your menu? Welcome to our column featuring bites of nutrition knowledge and insight for your team’s menu creation needs. This month we make meaningful strategies for the new year. New Year’s resolutions for fitness translate into financial fitness for school nutrition programs! Your program’s income and expenses are very similar to the energy we consume vs burn in our quest for personal wellness. While approaches may differ professionally and personally, one common denominator is that to see the results you want, you have to become mindful of your actions and put in the effort for the long term to build sustainable health! We hope to inspire you with ways to focus on cycle menus, production goals, and ways to examine current practices to plan how small shifts can reap desired long-term effects for your menu goals!
MENU PRO TIP
“Prior proper planning prevents poor performance!” Running short on commodities doesn’t mean your menu has to run short on popular meals that kids love! We’ve got some speed-scratch recipes to save the day and your menu’s participation. Kids love pizza and these videos demonstrate how to make varieties that will help build great pizza programs. Speed scratch options such as pizza , pinwheels , and stromboli are easy to make, and when made from scratch are even more popular with students. It’s easy to swap RTS (ready-to-serve) items such as grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas with scratch- made versions of classic grilled cheese and quesadillas . We know you may have hurdles to jump when moving to scratch cooking. Plan to keep your students and staff happy with meaningful steps to give simple training and support to your cooks while focusing on
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How better to run your school nutrition program like a business than to study how for-profit restaurants do? Add these recommendations to your 2024 book list for building a better perspective from our sister industry and “steal the ideas” for success while avoiding common pitfalls.
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