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

At Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools (LMSB2S), we are dedicated to donating salad bars to U. S. schools so that every child has daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables. We encourage school districts nationwide to apply for one (or more!) of our salad bars and...Read more

Tasty salad dressings encourage students to eat more salad, but prepared dressings are loaded with fat, sugar, and sodium that do more harm than good. While we believe that scratch-cooked dressings are the best option, we also recognize that many schools don’t have the facilities, staff, resources, or budget to...Read more

This blog post has been reposted with permission from Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools, read the original blog post here. Sometimes applying for grants can be a complicated process—from making sure you meet the eligibility criteria to filling out the application. At Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools, our primary objective...Read more