RECIPE COLLABORATIONS

Healthy Kids Collaborative

The CIA Healthy Kids Collaborative leverages the combined expertise and experience of members, corporate members, and invited content experts with the goals of discovering flavor and menu strategies, highlighting successes and best practices, and developing training protocols and resources.

One example of our collaborative work is connecting member school districts with our corporate members to conduct recipe development and testing in schools. This process allows our members to gain from external culinary innovation while presenting the opportunity for in school tasting and feedback for our corporate members.

Project Goals

  • Increase partnerships between school food operators and suppliers/associations.

  • Increase resources for school food operations.

  • Share lessons learned.

  • Share recipes developed.

 
 

 Successful Stories of Collaboration in 2023-24

 

ARCTIC APPLES &

CINCINATTI PUBLIC SCHOOLS

NATIONAL PEANUT BOARD &

NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS

BRIDGFORD FOODS &

ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

PACIFIC NORTHWEST CANNED PEARS &

GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

QUAKER &

SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

VOYAGE FOODS &

DURANGO SCHOOL DISTRICT

 
 

Resources

 

Resources for Suppliers

RECIPE TESTING FRAMEWORK

SCHOOL MEAL REQUIREMENTS

Resources for School Districts

CUSTOMIZABLE RECIPE EVALUATION FORMS

CUSTOMIZABLE RECIPE TEMPLATE

Collaboration Information

LEARN ABOUT PAST COLLABORATIONS

RECIPE DEVELOPMENT TESTING OPPORTUNITY PRESENTATION

RECIPE COLLABORATION INFORMATIONAL GUIDE

RECIPE COLLABORATION ONE SHEET