Highlights & High-Fives
Who wants some new menu ideas? Thinking about engaging not only your students but the families you serve? Welcome to our column featuring bites of nutrition knowledge and insight for your team’s menu creation needs. We love a good theme at Pisanick Partners and have curated and crafted some of our favorite “Harvest of the Month”, “Simply Fresh”, “Global Trends’’, and “Comfort Classic’’ recipes to ignite your team’s idea engines. Our free digital cookbook resource is full of these recipes. Speaking of celebrating successes - our team launched a first edition print cookbook that is packed with
The 2022-23 school year was full of so many successes for our partner school’s kitchens. Many implemented new programs, tried new menu items, offered more choice on their serving lines, provided engagement with students and parents, developed new skills, had glowing Administrative Reviews (AR) and the list goes on! We are so proud of all of our partner school districts and would like to give a ‘high-five’ to some of this school year’s highlights. IMPROVING CHOICE We encourage schools, particularly elementary buildings, to implement produce bars as a way to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption and offer students choice. Did you know kids’ eating habits are first determined by around 2-5 years of age then again at 10-11 years old? Their tastes really do not change again until early adulthood. That is why it is so important to have repeated exposure opportunities of new foods and not to be afraid to try, try again! The eating environment and offering choice is important when it comes to new food exposure. Produce or salad bars check all these boxes! Turnkey resources can make implementing a salad/ produce bar easier than you may think. We have worked with districts to implement produce bars around theme concepts, such as: Eat the Rainbow, Growing with Green, Variety is the SPICE of Life and Go Loco for Local. Checkout these awesome Eat the Rainbow produce bars put together by an elementary school that operated their first school year as part of the National School Lunch Program. Join us in celebrating our partner school districts successes from 2022-23
easy to prepare recipes which are scaled for both your school kitchens and for the homes of the families we
Other schools in the region have also committed to offering fresh produce daily and even implementing local farm to school efforts. This allows the students to try the foods that are grown in their own home state. ENHANCED SKILL BUILDING We love hands-on professional development days and had the
serve! Wellness committees, parent organizations, and school clubs can all get in on the action of creating these favorite recipes - many of which are inspired by trends in copycat recipes, nostalgic foods and upcycling ingredients. Spark joy in creation and elevate participation in your school community - Sign-up to pre-order this book and get your copy today!
opportunity to do a collaborative multi-district one this year. Pisanick Partner districts, East Cleveland and Woodridge, worked collaboratively on recipe development for our first hard copy cookbook ( Click here to preorder a copy)! What better way to enhance skills than to gather different districts together and let them learn from each other? These teams worked side by side to make, test and taste recipes. Their collaboration and ambition, along with their practical feedback, helped to develop delicious recipes that could be taken back to their kitchens and shared with their students.
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