Food Tasting
Food Tasting Promotions
Jeffco Food and Nutrition Services is promoting various fruits and vegetables to elementary students again this year. They will be offering new and familiar fruits and vegetables every month, encouraging students to try them – those that go over well will be incorporated into the menu and served more often. But those deemed unpopular will likely be removed. It’s important that we help facilitate this promotion!
Although we can’t pressure students to try these fruits and vegetables, we can encourage their willingness to sample them. And studies have shown that encouragement to eat healthy foods usually works!
So what can you do?
1. Check in with your school’s principal! Principals must be informed and agree to this fruit and vegetable promotion.
2. Once your principal is on board, talk to your cafeteria manager about the dates for this promotion at your school – promotion days will occur in September, October, November, January, February, March, April and May.
3. Help distribute the fruits and vegetables to the children! Encourage them to sample by explaining that fruits and vegetables are healthy foods. Each food is also highlighted to students as being from a particular part of the country.
