A National Initiative to Advance
Culinary-Driven, Healthy, Flavorful Foods for Kids
About Healthy Kids Collaborative
The Culinary Institute of America’s Healthy Kids Collaborative is a year-round, invitational initiative designed to both accelerate innovation and deepen technical and professional expertise in K-12 school food.
School Nutrition Magazine features “Building a Healthier School Culture”
“Where there is a will, there are many ways school nutrition professionals can take the lead in developing a healthier, responsible and sustainable food landscape in their communities.” Read more about the Healthy Kids Collaborative in the article linked below.
Informed by best practices in school food service, we hope you find these resource materials supportive in helping to make further enhancements to K-12 school food offerings and support transformative change that instills lifelong health preferences and behaviors in our nation’s youngest generation.
Resource Materials
The Culinary Institute of America's Healthy Kids Collaborative includes school nutrition leaders from around the country, including directors and chefs, top foodservice management companies, expert school nutrition consultants, and other stakeholders.
Members
"We are incredibly proud to be a part of the CIA Healthy Kids Collaborative and have learned so much from our time spent developing delicious and nutritious recipes at CIA. We are consistently striving to increase the acceptance of healthy and nutritious foods in our schools by creating innovative menu items. One way that we accomplish this is by preparing and serving a different roasted vegetable every week that is also featured on our garden salad bar. We use the same no sodium added seasonings and herbs featured on our student accessible Spice Stations to roast our weekly vegetable so students can replicate the flavor themselves, too."
— Jessica Shelly, Student Dining Services Director, Cincinnati Public Schools