Healthy School Foods

Goals

All healthy eating initiatives focus on the following four goals:

1. Increasing access to fruits and vegetables
2. Decreasing access to foods high in sodium
3. Saturated fat
4. Added sugars

Strategies

• Healthy Snacks and Classroom Celebrations: Working with schools to offer healthy snacks and foods at celebrations and fundraisers
• School Gardens
• Adoption of healthier food policies for students and staff at school fundraisers, celebrations and in vending machines.
• Adding water bottle filling stations in the school buildings to encourage water intake instead of sugar-sweetened beverages.                                 
• Farm to Schools