Events, Trainings and Resources
TDA's free digital materials for School Breakfast Week (SBW) are still available! Online materials are available at no cost to you. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to encourage children to Get Your Day in Gear with a Healthy School Breakfast. Order form here!
Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to encourage children to Get Your Day in Gear with a Healthy School Breakfast. Visit www.SquareMeals.org/SBW to download and print additional resources like morning announcements, themed recipes, and menus to ease the stress of planning for the celebration week.
TDA's creative new menu calendar templates for August 2023 - July 2024 include the new theme "Discover the Great Plate of Texas with a Healthy School Lunch/Breakfast." Child Nutrition Departments should utilize the templates to inform and engage students and families about school meals and other activities in the school year. If you have trouble with the table on the templates, please refer to the helpful video on the same webpage as the menu calendar templates. Click the title above.
Happy New Year! It is 2023 and time to start planning to attend the Texas Department of Agriculture’s MegaCon 2023, May 9-11. The annual event will bring approximately 1,000 contracting entities to Austin for three days of education, interaction, and recognition. All the excitement will take place over four floors of the AT&T Conference Center at the University of Texas. Mark your calendars!
Child Nutrition Program operators can order free print materials to help kindergarten students discover MyPlate today. Discover MyPlate: Nutrition Education for Kindergarten is fun and inquiry-based nutrition education that fosters the development of healthy food choices and physically active lifestyles during a critical developmental and learning period for children—kindergarten.
New Food Yields Added to the Food Buying Guide Interactive Tools
The following new food yields are available: frozen mangoes, fresh rambutan, fresh lychee, fresh and canned mandarins, frozen legumes (dark red kidney beans and white kidney beans) and pouched tuna.
Learn Something New or Refresh for the New Year!
The Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN) has released their list of Free Virtual Instructor-Led Training Sessions for the Winter 2023 session, register here today! You can also check out the ICN’s iBites Digest. for new resources, upcoming webinars, and more!
USDA Team Nutrition has released a new quiz for you to test your whole grain knowledge. Each question has real time feedback that supports information from the Food Buying Guide, NSLP Whole Grains resource, and the CACFP handbook. Try the quiz today! Click the title above. For more information click here.
The Team Nutrition Network, an online database of contact information for Team Nutrition Schools and Team Nutrition Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Organizations, will be retired on June 30, 2023. The Team Nutrition initiative is continuing its important work in supporting the Child Nutrition Programs, and you will continue to have access to the main Team Nutrition Website and all its popular Team Nutrition resources.
