Helping children make food choices for a healthy diet can be challenging. This book is designed as a resource guide and cookbook for parents to help them make healthful eating and cooking with children tasty, simple, affordable, and fun. The book is a collection of 50 recipes organized by season, and featuring family nutrition education…

Recognizing the importance of efficient and effective program administration for the success of Utah's Child Nutrition Programs, the State Office of Education developed a manual to assist local program administrators in using the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) programs. This document contains Part 1 of the manual's four interrelated…

This Feasibility Study to Develop a Methodology to Monitor the Impact of Changes in Competitive Food Policies had two main goals: (1) Design and test a plan for collecting and analyzing data about competitive food policies and all foods offered and served to students at school; and (2) Provide a methodology for assessing the impact of changes in…

Current results suggest the need to reconsider the rationale of attempts to reinforce the nutritional status of many Negro and some white school children through the continued heavy reliance on school milk programs, and its strong emphasis on milk consumption. Presented at the American School Health Association, October, 1972. (Author)

The stenographic record of testimony by five students, one mother, and one former teacher before the House Committee on Education and Labor hearings on amendments to the National School Lunch Act. (JM)

National School Lunch officials promise to continue expending their programs on the basis of number of needy children, not necessarily needy schools. (Author)

The text of testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs concerning the participation of the San Diego Independent School District in the National School Lunch program, by the district superintendent. (JM)

Report of a four-week nutrition education program conducted with two second grade classes from a school in suburban Maryland. Discusses aims, activities, and pre- and post-test results, including a parent questionnaire. Results indicated knowledge improvement, but stressed the home as the major influence over the food habits of children. (LK)

A Columbia, Missouri, high school publishes its menus four weeks in advance and offers students a choice between two lunch lines. Providing students with alternatives resulted in a ten percent increase in lunch participation. A sample 4-week menu cycle is provided. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of school breakfasts on the nutritive intake, biochemical indices, and physical growth of elementary school children during one academic year. (DM)

Describes research done by the Tulane University Early Childhood Research Center in New Orleans on children enrolled in Head Start programs--investigating the relationship between psychological development and nutrition. (DM)

Carroll County, Maryland, has shaped a strategy to improve school nutrition by weakening or eliminating, where possible, junk food competition, making lunches more nourishing and appealing, and working nutrition instruction into other subject areas. Steps taken to accomplish these changes are described. (MF)

Primary school children and their parents were surveyed to determine factors related to food preferences, school lunch participation, and dietary complexity. Results indicate independence of the three variables. They should not be used interchangeably to represent food habits when evaluating effectiveness of nutrition programs for elementary…

Investigates whether individual change in student academic achievement in mathematics and language is the same between and among black and white elementary students in Louisiana. Finds among other things that white students have higher mean scores in both mathematics and language than black students irrespective of their participation in free or…

The ranking minority congressman on the Committee on Education and Labor forecasts the future of federal funding for school food service programs under the Child Nutrition Act. (MLF)