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Monthly Musts: January Checklist ✅
Spotlight Stories: Bringing Joy to Little Tummies 🎄🎅
Cultivating Independence: Be A Guiding Light! 🌟
Friday Food Fight Presents: MenuLogic 🤝 School Food Handler
School Food Handler Asks 🗣
Resources Roundup: Full HACCP Guide 📚
Stay in the loop: USDA and FRAC Grant $1.1M for Equitable Access to Healthy Child Meals 📰
Tasty Bites: Spicy Tuna Roll 🐟 🌯
From the Desk of the Wise Owls: Course Recommendations 🎓
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January Checklist
UPCOMING DEADLINES & EVENTS
JANUARY RESOURCES
Plan to comply with SB 1383 Jan 1 (new law in CA only)
Capital Expenditure Request Email Template
Project SCALES Informational Webinar
Submit FSMC Bid Package/Renewal to State Due dates vary, due Jan 5 in CA for SY 24-25 FSMC Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program: Fiscal Year 2024 Request for Application Open January 12
Milk Supply Chain Memo and Waiver
SCHOOL FOOD HANDLER RESOURCES
Submit Verification Report Due dates vary, due Jan 16 in CA FY 2023-24 FMNP e-Solution Grant Jan 23 Start Onsite Monitoring for SNP & CACFP Due dates vary, SNP due prior to Feb 1
Full HACCP Guide
Food Safety Plan
Freezer Temperature Logs
Closing Your Kitchen Log
PROGRAM REMINDERS Prepare for the holidays! Get your “Closing Your Kitchen” template now!
MORE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE HERE
Complete semi-annual/periodic certification for staff 100% funded by nutrition dept.
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Bringing Joy to Little Tummies 🎄🎅
We have love making it fun for our grade school children! We have a
display window where we put our menu up in pictures for the children to
know what we’re preparing each day. Of course, it is displayed with
Christmas decor right now and we try to make it look three-dimensional.
So much fun working with children.!
WENDY ZYNDA-PIMENTEL | SMART SPOON NUTRITION SERVICES AT LARAMIE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 1
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Be A Guiding Light! 🌟
The School Food Handler joins forces with Project Little Brother for a specialized initiative dedicated to empowering high school students encountering developmental delays.
Our initiative provides FREE food handler certificate course, which includes comprehensive training in food safety, and essential skills. This paves the way for these students to step into a more promising future, filled with opportunities and culinary accomplishments.
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Menu and Budget Engineering Magic
Together with the brilliant Lindsey Hill, Founder & CEO of MenuLogic, we present you 'Menu and Budget Engineering Magic,' where we explored cutting-edge strategies for planning menus and budgets, customized exclusively for school districts. Did you miss out on discovering the secrets to smarter and more efficient school nutrition management? Don't worry, we've got you covered! The good news is that the episode is still available for streaming on our YouTube channel.
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If you had a billboard outside of the USDA office and you could put anything you want on it, what would it say?
School lunches don’t make kids obese!
All kids should eat free!!
Cindy Adams
Jessica Cabe
We need healthy, will fed children, not trash cans! Let us make it taste good!
You’re so worried about equity in the classroom. What about in the cafeteria?
Sandy Paden
Amanda Venezia
JOIN THE CONVERSATION HERE
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HACCP Guide In this comprehensive HACCP Guide, you will gain invaluable insights into the development and implementation of a robust Food Safety Plan.
This guide safeguards food from hazards, ensuring it meets high safety and quality standards.
File is available in PDF and Word format!
GET HERE
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USDA and FRAC Grant $1.1M for Equitable Access to Healthy Child Meals
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) and the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) have
teamed up to competitively award five organizations a total of $1.1
million to research barriers to equitable access in the federal child
nutrition programs and identify strategies to eliminate them. The
effort is funded by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service through a
cooperative agreement with FRAC.
FULL STORY HERE
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Spicy Tuna Roll
Recipe by Santa Clara Unified School District.
Tuna and rice are spiced up with a little sriracha mayo rolled in
a spinach tortilla.
Cut into slices and top with teriyaki and shredded carrots for a
delicious lunch!
FULL RECIPE HERE
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Course Recommendations
ANAB Accredited Food Handler Certificate Course
Celiac Disease and Nutrition - 1310/1450
Emergency Response Awareness Disaster & Safety Plan Part 1 - 3450
Emergency Response Awareness Disaster & Safety Plan Part 2- 3450
Civil Rights (Short Version) - 3420
Menu and Budget Engineering Magic with MenuLogic - 1110/1150/1170
Cycle Menus, Forecasting & Inventories for School Lunch Programs - 1110/1150/1170
Not a School Food Handler Customer Yet? Contact us today and get exclusive access to all of these resorces and more!
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