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Our partner chefs have developed simple, delicious recipes to help kids continue their focus on nutrition at home. We also offer tips and tricks for healthy eating, such as ways to introduce new foods to picky eaters.
NUTRITIOUS MEALS AT HOME
SCHOOL WELLNESS
Tailoring the Sample School Wellness Policy
Schools play a critical role in fostering lifelong healthy habits in children. Children and youth spend the majority of their time during their formative years at school, where they consume at least half of their daily calories. Studies have shown that students who are more physically active and eat more nutritious diet perform better in school. School wellness policies communicate commitment to students, parents, teachers and administrators healthy environments, healthy students and academic progress are priorities. In fact, all school districts participating in the National School Lunch Program and/or School Breakfast Program are required to adopt a written wellness policy. Many schools have found using a policy template helpful in writing an effective policy. The attached Policy Development Guide offers an editable version of a school wellness policy that includes all of the best practices for achieving a healthy school environment and that meets federal and state regulations. For schools not yet ready to adopt all the practices the guide provides options to tailor the policy to meet the district’s specific goals and needs.
Smart Snack Suggestions
Smart Snacks Fact Sheet
Healthy Fundraising (USDA Healthy Meals Resource System)
Healthy Fundraising Solutions
Healthy fundraising ideas from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
Local School Wellness Policy Outreach Toolkit
Engage school staff and parents in school wellness using these ready-to-go communication tools. Sharing news about your Local School Wellness Policy is easy with these flyers, presentations, newsletter articles, and social media posts. Your school can personalize them to make them specific to your Local School Wellness Policy activities.
Cooking for Kids Fact Sheet for Teachers and Staff
Cooking for Kids Fact Sheet for Families
Shape Your Future
Shape Your Future is dedicated to improving community health. We encourage parents, children and all Oklahomans to live healthier lives every day by eating more fruits and vegetables, getting the appropriate amount of physical activity and being tobacco free.
Celebrations that Support Child Health
Constructive Classroom Rewards: Promoting Good Habits While Protecting Children's Health
Food for Kids Backpack Program
The Regional Food Bank’s Food for Kids program provides chronically hungry children with backpacks filled with non-perishable, nutritious, kid-friendly, shelf-stable food to sustain them over weekends and school holidays.
NUTRITION EDUCATION AT HOME
Cooking Matters Kids Handouts
Cooking Matters presents a series of short colorful handouts chock-full of fun activities and recipes for elementary-school aged kids. Each issue has a different theme, focused on healthy eating and cooking. These are great activities for parents, teachers, caregivers or anyone to use with the children in their lives. Interested parties can download the handouts as a PDF.
Kitchen Helper Activities for 2-5 Year Olds
We Can! GO, SLOW, and WHOA Foods
A guide for making choices about food to eat almost anytime (GO), sometimes (SLOW), and once in a while (WHOA).
Healthy Tips for Picky Eaters
MyPlate
MyPlate.gov provides practical information to individuals, health professionals, nutrition educators, and the food industry to help consumers build healthier diets with resources and tools for dietary assessment, nutrition education, and other user-friendly nutrition information.
Fruits and Veggies More Matters
Fruits and Veggies-More Matters is a health initiative focused on helping Americans increase fruit and vegetable consumptions for better health.
Shape Your Future
Shape Your Future is dedicated to improving community health. We encourage parents, children and all Oklahomans to live healthier lives every day by eating more fruits and vegetables, getting the appropriate amount of physical activity and being tobacco free.
American Heart Association Nutrition Center
At the heart of good health is good nutrition. Find recipes, healthy cooking tips, secrets to heart-smart shopping and much more.
Oklahoma Nutrition Information and Education Project
The Oklahoma Nutrition Information and Education Project (ONIE) aims to improve the health of Oklahoma families by offering various nutrition and physical activity programming, information and education materials throughout the state. ONIE is a non-profit organization created to support and strengthen the nutrition of Oklahomans.