Nutrition Education

School Meals – Nutrition Education

  • Tasting Rules Poster: Use this poster in the cafeteria to connect the experience of tasting new foods in the cafeteria to similar experiences they may have had in the classroom.
  • Edible ABCs Picture Cards: Use these picture cards to share nutrition and growing information about foods on the cafeteria menu.
  • FSNE’s ReFresh curriculum provides monthly themed nutrition education lessons and hands on activities. With slight modifications, you can use the activities in this curriculum to connect to and promote school meals. Read more – ReFresh Classroom to Cafeteria Modifications.
  • Have students brainstorm creative and descriptive names to promote items on the school lunch menu. Download this document for a list of descriptors to inspire their creativity.