Inside School Food
A showcase for fresh insights that are making a difference, and progressive solutions that really work. Peer leaders from across the nation share their stories about fighting hunger, coping with regulation, and meeting sustainability goals. About winning kids over and changing lives with creative menus packed with fresh whole food. Need help keeping up with emerging school nutrition policy, legislation, and research? We’ve got that covered, too. From the Heritage Radio Network.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2016
Episode 12: Re-learning to Cook: Boot Camp for Food Service
If you’re old enough, you remember the days when “cafeteria ladies” had a craft and the food at school was hand made, right down to the dinner rolls. After decades of moving away from that proud trad…
00:39:47 |
Mon 04 Aug 2014
Episode 11: School Garden to Cafeteria
School gardens are now being embraced nationwide, as is farm-to-school. But school garden-to-cafeteria? It’s what’s coming next–well-established in some districts, in fact, which offer valuable resou…
00:37:39 |
Mon 14 Jul 2014
Episode 10: Have it Your Way
HAVE IT YOUR WAY through partnerships with nimble small and mid-size processors. Want your own wild-rice meatloaf? A baked falafel made with local beans? Tyson and Schwan’s can’t help, but there are …
00:46:12 |
Mon 07 Jul 2014
Episode 9: Do Stricter Meal Standards Lead to Better Health Outcomes?
School food has been commanding headlines for well over a month, as controversy rages over costs and complications associated with implementation of stricter new nutrition standards. If you’re confus…
00:32:20 |
Mon 30 Jun 2014
Episode 8: Salad Bars Part 2: Strategies for Success from Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools
Salad bars aren’t rocket science, but getting them right calls for careful, common-sense assembly with the right ingredients. If you’ve listened to Salad Bars Part 1 (and we suggest that you do), may…
00:35:19 |
Mon 23 Jun 2014
Episode 7: Cafeteria Composting
Composting and recycling at school isn’t just about eco-friendly waste diversion. It also provides students with a powerful lesson in sound environmental practice that they’ll carry with them for the…
00:34:19 |
Mon 16 Jun 2014
Episode 6: Salad Bars Part 1: Riverside Unified School District
Are you a salad bar skeptic? If you are, you’re not alone. Many a committed K-12 food service director is hesitant to try, out of concern over participation, waste, expense, mess, and food safety. An…
00:42:03 |
Mon 09 Jun 2014
Episode 5: The Case for Fresh & Sustainable Chicken
In Jefferson County, Colorado, a better school lunch often starts with better chicken: locally and sustainably grown, without antibiotics, and prepared from scratch. In the world of K-12 food service…
00:35:22 |
Mon 02 Jun 2014
Episode 4: DC Central Kitchen
This week’s episode of Inside School Food is the first installment of a series of episodes we’re calling “And Now for Something Completely Different,” in which we profile programs and business models…
00:35:34 |
Mon 26 May 2014
Episode 3: Kitchen Equipment
Today on Inside School Food. we’re talking kitchen equipment—What do we have? What do we need? And how can we go on doing without under new meal-pattern requirements that call for more—and more p…
00:35:16 |
Mon 19 May 2014
Episode 2: Community Eligibility
The face of free school food is about to change in some neighborhoods thanks to something called Community Eligibility. Community Eligibility helps bring universal meal service to high poverty distri…
00:31:37 |
Mon 12 May 2014
Episode 1: Pilot: Reducing Waste and Meeting the Bottom Line
Go inside school food on Inside School Food, a brand new show on Heritage Radio Network! Paying for the new school lunch on just six extra cents (yes, you heard that right) per meal: Gitta Grether-Sw…
00:38:30 |
Mon 05 May 2014
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