Promote healthy eating behaviors with simple changes to the lunchroom environment at your school.
Smarter Lunchrooms
Smarter Lunchrooms: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Meal SelectionAgricultural and Applied Economics Association. Choices Magazine.
Food and Brand Lab YouTube ChannelCornell University.
These videos provide quick tips from the Smarter Lunchroom Movement and are great as part of an in-service or other training.
ReFresh Toolkit (PDF | 4.48 MB)Maryland State Department of Education; University of Maryland Extension.
A collection of resources to help school food service staff, teachers and parents to support children’s healthy eating habits in the school cafeteria. These resources are built on the ‘the nudge’, an environmental cue that influences behavior change. The cafeteria environment provides multiple opportunities to influence healthy eating behaviors of children.
Creating Positive and Pleasant Mealtimes for Schools and Early Childhood ProgramsMontana Team Nutrition.
This training resource addresses a variety of mealtime scenarios and tips for positive meal time practices. Materials include a video, poster, handouts, PowerPoint presentation, and recorded webinar. Separate resources are available for school professionals and child care providers.
Lunch'dCornell University's Smarter Lunchrooms Initiative; Channel One News.
How do you trick students into making healthier decisions at lunch? Part one shows what students chose before their lunch line is redesigned to promote healthy choices. Part two compares the differences in student choices after the lunch line redesign.