School Breakfast
Web Resources
GENERAL SCHOOL BREAKFAST RESOURCES
The following websites provide general information about the school breakfast program and also contain information about how to start a school breakfast program.
Wisconsin School Breakfast Programs Blog
Department of Public Instruction (DPI) School Breakfast website
DPI Training Opportunities
USDA Discover School Breakfast Toolkit
The following website is a primer for use in implementing, enhancing, marketing and operating a school breakfast program.
USDA Expanding Your School Breakfast ProgramToolkit
School Nutrition Association
The following website for has school breakfast information, menu planners, recipe finders, and a section on National School Breakfast Week.
National Dairy Council-Expanding Breakfast
The following website contains information on the Expanding Breakfast resources, including the different service models, marketing, and more.
National Food Service Management Institute
The following website contains information about the School Breakfast A Smart Way to Start the Day presentation
BREAKFAST SERVICE MODELS
The following websites provide information aboutdifferent school breakfast program service models, such as breakfast in the classroom, etc.
USDA
Describes each breakfast service model including serving breakfast on the bus!
Wisconsin School Breakfast website
Describes the different types of breakfast service models.
Department of Public Instruction: Serving Up A Successful School Breakfast Program
The following document describes the steps to consider when implementing a school breakfast program. It includes information about the different service models, menu samples and more.
MARKETING
The following websites provide information about how to market and promote school breakfast programs. Some contain ready to use materials such as public service announcements etc.
USDA Expanding Your School Breakfast Program (marketing)
The following website from USDA’s breakfast toolkit contains a variety of marketing and promotion ideas. It contains information about how to create a marketing strategy.
USDA Discover School Breakfast Toolkit
This website has information about the Discover School Breakfast Toolkit which contains information about how to market the program.
DPI website
This website contains links to a variety of resources, including posters, student surveys, implementation guides, and fact sheets on breakfast serving models and much more.
Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board
Request materials free of charge for Wisconsin school foodservice and K-12 classrooms.
National Dairy Council-Expanding Breakfast (marketing)
A great resource for marketing resources
USDA Food Service
School Breakfast: A New Resource and Success Stories (webinar)
This webinar was originally broadcast on February 11, 2009 and includes success stories from Colorado and Wisconsin (third link from top)
USDA Resource Library
The following website contains materials intended to assist in promotion and operation of a school breakfast program. There are three sections to the manual: value of breakfast, how to implement a breakfast program and enhancing school breakfast programs.
MENU IDEAS AND PLANNING
The following websites provide information about foods suitable to serve in a school breakfast program, menus and recipes.
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
Information and training on planning nutritious and balanced meal for service under the school breakfast program.
Updated recipes from the 1988 Quantity Recipes for School Food Service and the 1995 Tool Kit for Healthy School Meals.
The following website contains a recipe finder, menu tips, and sample menus.
USDA Healthy Meals School Recipe Finder
The following website contains a searchable recipe database.
DPI website
The following link contains a menu planner for food production staff and provides guidance on the various menu planning options available to local school systems. It also includes handouts on ideas for serving breakfast in the classroom and Grab N Go style. It includes menu samples and more.
This DPI website also contains sample menus and a listing of Wisconsin schools that have menus available online.
School Nutrition Association (SNA)recipe database
Has a searchable database of recipes in large-size quantities and includes nutrient information as well.
CDC recipe database
This website has a searchable database of recipes.
This website is tailored to kids; contains easy recipes that kids can make and love eating.
SUPPORT, ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAMS
The following websites provide information about how to obtain support for a school breakfast program, as well as how to assess and evaluate the program.
USDA Discover school breakfast toolkit (assessment and evaluation)
The following website provides information needed to talk with various school personnel such as superintendents, principals, teachers, staff, students as well as parents. It lists potential concerns that each of these groups may have and gives information as to how to address these issues.
USDA Discover School Breakfast Toolkit (budgeting, etc.)
The following website has valuable information on what calculations you need to make and how to make them for evaluation of your breakfast costs.
Benefits of Breakfast
USDA Healthy Meals
The following website is a summary of research findings which document the relationship of breakfast to children’s health and learning. These summaries could be used to convince school decision makers to support a breakfast program.
OTHER RELATED SITES
Action for Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing the epidemic of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth by focusing on changes in schools. AFHK works in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to improve children's nutrition and increase physical activity, which will in turn improve their readiness to learn.
Action for Healthy Kids – Wisconsin
American Dietetic Association
The American Dietetic Association is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. ADA is committed to improving the nation’s health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy.
Wisconsin Dietetic Association
Wisconsin Dietetic Association (WDA) is an organization of nutrition professionals providing expert food and nutrition services to the residents of Wisconsin. WDA is an affiliate of the American Dietetic Association, consisting of approximately 1700 nutrition experts commonly known as Registered Dietitian (RD) and Dietetic Technician Registered (DTR).
Food Research and Action Center
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and under-nutrition in the United States. FRAC works with hundreds of national, state and local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations to address hunger and its root cause, poverty.
School Nutrition Association
The School Nutrition Association (SNA) is a professional association dedicated solely to the support and well being of school nutrition professionals in advancing good nutrition for all children.
School Nutrition Association of Wisconsin
SNA-WI strives to be the recognized school food service resource for child nutrition information in the State of Wisconsin by providing opportunities for professional growth and development for school food service personnel.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
The Department of Public Instruction is the state agency that advances public education and libraries in Wisconsin. The department is headed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a nonpartisan, constitutional officer elected every four years. The agency was created in 1848, the year Wisconsin attained statehood, when the state constitution provided for the establishment of local school districts and a free education for all children in the state.
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board
The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board is funded by Wisconsin dairy producers, who in 1983 voted to establish a mandatory state milk marketing order to help affect demand for dairy products made from Wisconsin milk.
Wisconsin Dairy Council
Find out how Wisconsin Dairy Council resources can help kids learn to make dairy products a regular part of their lifelong eating patterns.
If you know of any valuable website (or other resources) relating to school breakfast that you think should be added to this list, please contact:
Julia E. Salomón, MS, RD, CD
University of Wisconsin-Extension