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Fresh Food, Dance Class, and Nap Mats: What's Lost Without Federal Money for Child Care

Edsurge

It’s food Gale shops for and her staff prepares on site. Her child care facilities qualify for meal subsidies through the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which is administered by the West Virginia Department of Education. Extra pandemic funding meant Gale could serve fresh foods, including fruit, vegetables and meat.

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How New Orleans Food Culture Shaped My View of School Lunches

Edsurge

I teach in New Orleans, a city known for its food scene. From gumbo to grillades, crawfish boils to creole red gravy, New Orleans food is a melange of recipes passed down from generation to generation of Black, Creole and Indigenous people to create one of the only distinctive styles of cuisines of American origin.

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Foods to Eat & Avoid

The Innovative Educator

Genius Foods Eat this: Oil (Olive, avocado, coconut) Avocados Berries Dark chocolate Pasture-raised eggs, chicken Grass-fed beef SMASH Fish Dark leafy greens, broccoli, mushrooms Almonds Wheat Belly Don’t eat this: Eliminate all wheat, including bread, pasta, cereal, pretzels, doughnuts, flour, etc. No processed foods.

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5 Ways to Bring Sustainable Food Understanding into Your School

The CoolCatTeacher

Julie Wilcott talks about how we can bring sustainable food systems and understanding into our schools with these five simple ideas. 5 Ways to Bring Sustainable Food Systems into Your School. Today we’re talking to Julie Willcott @WillcottJulie about five ideas for helping integrate sustainable food systems into our schools.

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After more than a dozen states said no to a new summer food benefit for children, advocates worry about filling the gap

The Hechinger Report

South Carolina’s sweltering summer months are often the busiest time of year for the Lowcountry Food Bank, an organization that gives meals to children year-round. Last summer, the food bank provided more than 18,000 meals to families. When school lets out in June, the group opens nearly two dozen U.S That was a COVID-related benefit.

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Innovative Education on Nutrition: Vegan Food Industry - Harmful or Healthy

The Innovative Educator

That’s when my research began with two books: Mark Hyman’s “Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?” and “Genius Foods.” My eyes were opened to all the ways the food industry misrepresents food for profit. This didn’t make much sense. I bought healthy brands and was not an overeater. Learn More!

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OPINION: Here’s a great way to teach kids about climate change: Start with the food they eat

The Hechinger Report

Making the connection between food and climate change could reap huge benefits for our children — and for all of us. As more states and cities officially integrate climate change education into their school curricula, we urge them to include discussion of food systems and personal eating habits as essential parts of the climate story.