Let's Move Salad Bars 2 Schools
Aug 22, 2014, Updated Jun 08, 2021
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I had a blast on Indy Style yesterday! It’s always fun for me to share my message on TV. For this month’s segment, I invited my friend Hilary Martin from Frey Farms to join me in studio. We talked about a very important program that is available now to all schools in the United States:
- The Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools program was co-founded by the United Fresh Produce Association & supports our First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative.
The national focus of the Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools program is currently on the MIDWEST region! And the fresh produce industry is working hard to bring Salad Bars to every schools in the Midwest – our focus will remain on the Midwest until the summer of 2016! Hilary, whose family grows watermelons & other produce items throughout the Midwest, is one of the United Fresh Captains for my hometown region! THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!!! And a huge THANKS to my girl Hilary for coming to Indianapolis & appearing on IndyStyle with me 🙂
Our fully-stocked salad bar looked GREAT on camera… thank you to United Fresh Produce Association, Cambro Foodservice Equipment, & Garden Cut for all the help with getting this salad bar to the IndyStyle studio!
Salad bars are proven to not only INCREASE the consumption of fresh produce in schools, but also REDUCE food waste! Children are encouraged to “take what they want & eat what they take.” It’s so inspiring for me to see our industry’s youngest consumers be empowered at school and encouraged to “find their favorite!” This program works. And the fresh produce industry has packaged it all up in a fool-proof & universal program. Thanks to Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools, more school cafeterias in the United States are offering salad bars & citing incredible success, measured in fresh produce consumption, of course 😉
Excited to learn more??? Want to see a salad bar like this at your school?
Cool.
Visit SaladBars2Schools.org and maybe your school will be the next one to receive this amazing piece of equipment & program!
Parents… click HERE to get your son or daughter’s school registered
School Districts… click HERE to get started with the Let’s Move Salad Bar grant
Anyone wishing to make a tax-deductible monetary donation to support the Let’s Move Salad Bars 2 Schools program… click HERE.
#SaladBars2Schools
xoxo Produce Mom
