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Healthy Lunchtime Challenge and Kids' State Dinner

April 15, 2015 Elizabeth Rahavi, Outreach and Social Media, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

Calling all budding chefs! Do you like to cook and make healthy food for your friends and family? If so, you might be able to show off your skills and creativity to the First Lady of the United States and your peers from across the country. Learn more about how you can represent your state at the...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

#GimmeFive Ways to Boost Your Garden and Keep Pollinators Buzzing

April 06, 2015 Annie Ceccarini, The People’s Garden Initiative and USDA Farmers Market

The USDA’s People’s Garden team is joining the fun at the White House Easter Egg Roll today to introduce the crowds to some very important garden workers – pollinators. Bees, butterflies, bats, birds, and beetles are all crucial to sustaining plant growth, and in fact nearly two-thirds of the foods...

Initiatives

USDA Helps Plant a Seed for a Healthier Next Generation of Inner City Students

March 25, 2015 Chris Groskreutz, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Georgia

As teams of agriculturalists across America celebrated National Agricultural Day on March 18, a group of volunteers and professionals arrived at Miller Grove Middle School in Lithonia, Georgia. They were there to give a hands-on outdoor lesson on how to build, plant and maintain a school garden to a...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

Celebrate National Nutrition Month in your Community!

March 23, 2015 Tricia L. Psota, PhD, RDN, Nutritionist, USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

In honor of National Nutrition Month® , MyPlate is sharing resources to help you bite into a healthy lifestyle everywhere you go! This blog highlights resources for encouraging a healthy lifestyle within your community. Learn about healthy eating at home and at work here. There are many ways to...

Food and Nutrition

A Student's View: Healthier School, Brighter Future

March 13, 2015 Brooke Hardison, USDA Office of Communications

The following guest blog from a Nebraska high school student is part of our Cafeteria Stories series, highlighting healthy meals in schools and the impact of hard working school nutrition professionals who are dedicated to making the healthy choice the easy choice at schools across the country. We...

Food and Nutrition

Teach Healthier Meals in a SNAP!

February 27, 2015 The SNAP-Ed Team

This is the fourth installment of the What’s Cooking? Blog Series . In honor of the Let’s Move 5 th Anniversary, and the commitment USDA shares with Let’s Move to promote healthy eating and access to healthy foods, this month-long series will highlight the various features of the What’s Cooking...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

What's Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl: A Collection of Recipes for Schools and Child Care Centers

February 23, 2015 Cheryl Jackson Lewis, Director, Nutrition Promotion and Technical Assistance Division, Child Nutrition Programs, USDA FNS

This is the third installment of the What’s Cooking? Blog Series. In honor of the Let’s Move 5 th Anniversary, and the commitment USDA shares with Let’s Move to promote healthy eating and access to healthy foods, this month-long series will high­­light the various features of the What’s Cooking...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

What's Cooking with USDA Foods?

February 18, 2015 Lindsay Walle, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Food Distribution Division

This is the second installment of the What’s Cooking? Blog Series . In honor of the Let’s Move 5 th Anniversary, and the commitment USDA shares with Let’s Move to promote healthy eating and access to healthy foods, this month-long series will high­­light the various features of the What’s Cooking...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Let's Move Into the Kitchen and See What's Cooking

February 04, 2015 Shelley Maniscalco, MPH, RD, Director, Office of Nutrition Marketing and Communications, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

This is the first installment of the What’s Cooking? Blog Series . In honor of the Let’s Move 5 th Anniversary, and the commitment USDA shares with Let’s Move to promote healthy eating and access to healthy foods, this month-long series will high­­light the various features of the What’s Cooking...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Super Bowl "Super Kid" Promotes Exercise, Healthy Eating

February 03, 2015 Whitney Rick, Agricultural Marketing Service Dairy Programs Promotion, Research and Planning Division, Dairy Program Director

Minutes before the National Football League (NFL) teams of Super Bowl XLIX took the field, a middle school student from Orlando, Fla., had the honor of handing the game ball to an NFL official for the kickoff. But Bobby did much more than hand off that football. As this year’s NFL Play 60 “Super Kid...

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