New Web Site unveils healthy solutions for every school!

www.TheLunchBox.org, a new Web portal of tools for school districts everywhere, provides a tool kit of practical solutions for school nutrition officials and children’s health advocates across the U.S. It is a first-of- its-kind school nutrition resource. Take a look!

Created by renegade lunch lady and longtime activist and author Chef Ann Cooper, with expertise from hundreds of school lunch reform advocates across the country, the Lunch Box is a project of the new Food, Family, Farming Foundation (http://www.foodfamilyfarming.org/), headquartered in Boulder, Colo.

The Lunch Box is a comprehensive set of “why” and “how to” online tools to transition the typical highly processed school meal program to healthier, wholesome and fresh food-based menus with no trans fats, high fructose corn syrup or unnecessary chemical additives and preservatives.

F3 launched the Lunch Box Project to make the following resources available at no charge:

> 80 scalable recipes
> Nutritional and cost analyses
> Menu plans and Chef Cooper’s “Meal Wheel”
> Budget, inventory and procurement models and templates
> “How to Get Started” tips and case studies
> Food safety, handling and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points tools and counsel
> Training videos
> Expert guest bloggers offering pragmatic advice
> Community engagement so all lunch ladies (and gentlemen) can help each other