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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The kitchen is often referred to as the “heart of the home”, well welcome home to our cafeteria kitchens, and the space where many meals and good conversation take place in the effort to unite teams, students, and communities with the one thing we all need and love - GREAT FOOD! If the kitchen is the heart, then all of our staff - frontline, managers, chefs, dietitians, and administrators are the heartbeat! We love to celebrate the pulse of this special profession in this edition and throughout the school year! Enjoy some food for thought curated and ready to serve up some quick and easy strategies for success.
We love new school years and new food trends to inspire our school kitchen experts with the tools and tricks to make standardized recipes come to life in their cafeterias. Check out some of this season’s inspiration recipes . For many of us, the season’s bounty is ripe for the picking and placement on our menus. Check out these Harvest of the Month ideas to start your year strong in celebration of local gems that taste best at the peak of harvest! Want to celebrate the “endless summer” - we do! Recipes like this seasonal and tasty Watermelon Feta Salad will keep the sun shining in your cafeteria for staff and students. We love fresh from the garden surplus, and for those cucumber enthusiasts, we also love a fun way to add a twist to a simply fresh salad with this Smashed Cucumber Salad .
Check out this national spotlight video from the team at Good Morning America and see if you don’t end up with a smile on your face. “Validating one’s life’s work” and starting a “School Lunch Hero Day” celebration is an inspiring purpose for Jarret J. Krosocza. The lunch lady uses tools of kindness to create a memorable book series that celebrates the star of the story…” Lunch Lady” the true school lunch heroine! Consider using these graphic novels for your elementary school incentives this year. How about a lunch lending library with these and other books teaching students about school nutrition in fun new ways? Lucky tray day just got literary when you give a book to the winner, while encouraging participation in a fun new way!
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The Labor of Lunch, Why we need real food and real jobs in American public schools - Jennifer E Gaddis. Create a book club this year and use this GUIDE to dig deep into Gaddis’ goal” to spark a progressive movement that aims to transform food in American schools and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed.” Team Pisanick is intrigued and is doing our own book club this fall after Maureen had the pleasure of meeting the author this year at the SNA Annual Conference in Boston.
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Inspired people inspire people! Have you ever considered partnering with experts in mental health and or team engagement? We may be the experts in food, business, and regulations but many of us don’t have the expertise in areas that often play a large role in our staff’s lives - both at work and beyond. “You don’t just feed kids, you feed souls” was the opening theme at our back-to-school training which not only
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