NJ Farm to School Network and the Department of Education Student Support Services are bringing a workshop for food service professionals to Newark. Kitchen Essentials: Knife Skills and Healthy Recipes is a 2 1/2 hr. hands-on train-the-trainer workshop taught by Kate Adamick, Andrea Martin, and Jaimi St. John of Cook for America®. Cook for America is a new paradigm in which school food becomes a powerful and effective tool in the fight against childhood obesity and other diet-related illnesses. They envision a nation of school food service personnel who are trained, empowered and inspired to provide healthy cooked-from-scratch school meals for America’s children.
The workshops are next Tuesday May 7 at 4 pm and 7 pm and will take place at St. Philips Academy’s kitchen. Newark Public School Food Service has encouraged staff to register. If you haven’t already, please register or tell your favorite school food service professional to sign up.
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NJ Farm to School Network and the Department of Education Student Support Services are bringing a workshop for food service professionals to Newark. Kitchen Essentials: Knife Skills and Healthy Recipes is a 2 1/2 hr. hands-on train-the-trainer workshop taught by Kate Adamick, Andrea Martin, and Jaimi St. John of Cook for America®. Cook for America is a new paradigm in which school food becomes a powerful and effective tool in the fight against childhood obesity and other diet-related illnesses. They envision a nation of school food service personnel who are trained, empowered and inspired to provide healthy cooked-from-scratch school meals for America’s children.
The workshops are next Tuesday May 7 at 4 pm and 7 pm and will take place at St. Philips Academy’s kitchen. Newark Public School Food Service has encouraged staff to register. If you haven’t already, please register or tell your favorite school food service professional to sign up.
Let’s Move! Newark partners participated in the Healthy Kids Food Festival sponsored by Partnering Community Centers. Let’s Move! Newark partners including YMCA, Newark Yoga Movement, Lotus Yoga, Rutgers Cooperative Extension offered healthy eating and lifestyle workshops at Belmont-Runyon Newark Public School. Activities included a dance contest with DJ Kava, yoga classes, and food portion distortion demonstration from Revolution Foods.
“Marching 4 PALA” is a campaign to help students reach their “Presidential Active Life Award” (PALA) goals of eating nutritious foods and maintaining healthy, active lifestyles. The program, part of President Obama’s Physical Fitness Challenge, also supports Mayor Booker’s Let’s Move! Newark campaign. Brick City Serves is the managing partner for the campaign.
In the “Marching 4 PALA” campaign, youth aged between 6 and 17 are challenged to commit to 60 minutes of physical activity a day, at least five days a week, for six out of eight weeks. They are also committed to making healthier food choices, and setting realistic goals to encourage fitness and healthy eating habits for a lifetime.
Mayor Cory Booker challenges people to get fit with his new online fitness game called the Cory Booker Challenge: https://www.corybookerchallenge.com/
Once logged into the application via Facebook, participants “check in” to various physical activities to earn points, in-game trophies and compete against their friends for a top spot on the leader board. Newark residents are also exclusively invited to join a 90-day contest sponsored by the General Mills Foundation in which weekly, monthly and grand cash prizes will be awarded — the more you check in to fitness activities the more likely you are to win. In order to qualify for the Grand Prize of $1,000, participants must check in to fitness activities for 30 consecutive days during the 90-day contest period, which starts on March 12, 2012 and ends June 11, 2012.