Kristen Mcguan’s creative spirit shines through the East Grand School District salad bar program where she has been Food Service Director for the past 3 years. Her favorite part about the program is when she sees students take ideas from the bars home. When kale chips and jicama sticks were...Read more

With over 5,000 salad bars granted to schools across the U. S., the Salad Bars to Schools program has been able to help schools incorporate more fresh fruits and veggies into their meal programs. But to better understand the impacts and use of these salad bars we grant, we send every...Read more

By: Heidi Stimac This blog has been republished with the permission of Salad Bars to Schools. Marblehead Community Charter Public School (MCCPS) has been serving children in the Boston area for about 24 years, and has always had a salad bar. So what makes their participation in the Salad Bars to...Read more

By: Heidi Stimac This blog has been republished with the permission of Salad Bars to Schools. Roasted chickpeas and fresh pomegranates are items you probably don’t expect to see in an ordinary school cafeteria. But luckily for the students at Vista Unified School District (VUSD) in Oceanside, California, Director of Child Nutrition...Read more

By: Kate OlenderPeople from all walks of life value school salad bars, which allow students to choose a variety of healthy, fresh fruits and vegetables to fill their plates. But there’s one group that lives and breathes fresh fruits and veggies all day, every day – and they’ve turned raising...Read more

By Faith AkgunThis blog has been republished with the permission of Salad Bars to Schools. View the original post here. When Kayla Leu joined Iowa’s Bettendorf Community School District as Director of Nutrition Services, there were already existing salad bars in the district’s middle and high schools. She quickly...Read more

By Faith AkgunThis blog has been republished with the permission of Salad Bars to Schools. View the original post here. When Peggy Bodnar became the Food & Nutrition Services Supervisor at Boise School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive school lunch program that was already profoundly committed...Read more

By Laura PeuquetThis blog has been republished with the permission of Salad Bars to Schools. View the original post here. School Nutrition Director Wimberly Brackett knew that if she could place salad bars in all Dalton Public Schools, both kids and staff would eat more whole, fresh foods....Read more

This blog has been re-published with the permission of Salad Bars to Schools. View the original blog post here. Green and orange signs filled the air in the Bates Academy cafeteria. The students of this K-8 school made their voices heard, but not in the...Read more

Over ten years ago, when I was the Director of Nutrition Services at Berkeley Unified School District, I implemented Salad Bars in every school in the district for all of our K-12 students. When I began the program, there was a fair amount of “push-back.” I heard statements like; “little...Read more

This blog has been republished with the permission of Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. View the original post here. When it comes to making changes to school lunch options around the country, food service directors are often met with resistance from staff, parents, and students.  However...Read more

This blog has been re-published with the permission of Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. View the original blog post here. School salad bars may live in the cafeteria, but the impact they have on the school reaches well beyond the lunchroom doors. Food service professionals working...Read more

This blog has been re-published with the permission of Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. Read the original post here.Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools is excited to be celebrating National Farm to School Month this October, paying homage to the hard work and...Read more

​This blog was re-posted with the permission of Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. Read the original post here. These days, it’s a lot harder to argue against using a salad bar in a school program than it once was. The USDA has backed salad bars as one of...Read more

This blog was re-posted with the permission of Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. Read the original post here.“The weather is changing a little bit down here… getting a bunch of rain but we’re still keeping our kids healthy, especially with our salad bars!” Robert Cuellar’s...Read more