Team Nutrition’s USDA Standardized Recipes have moved to the Institute of Child Nutrition’s Child Nutrition Recipe Box!
The Child Nutrition Recipe Box provides Child Nutrition Program operators with recipes to prepare healthy and delicious meals that meet meal pattern requirements. These recipes are standardized to provide meal pattern crediting information for all meal pattern components and [Read More]
A Message from our Executive Director
As summer comes to a close, ICN has big things on the way! We continue to see great strides being made with training participants, as well as, with record-breaking face-to-face training requests and online course completions. The ICN S.T.A.R. [Read More]
S.T.A.R. Spotlight
This quarter the S.T.A.R. Spotlight is shining on Deb Potter with Prairie Hills USD 113 in Sabetha, Kansas. Brook Brubeck, Prairie Hills USD Food Service Director, shared that Deb was instrumental in getting the principal at her school [Read More]
eSTAR
USDA’s Team Nutrition E-STAR Program is an enhanced version of the ICN STAR (School Nutrition Strategies, Training, Action Plans, and Resources) training program that focuses on school meal quality. On September 4, 2019, the Food and Nutrition Service awarded [Read More]
New and Updated Resources
The following new and revised resources have been uploaded to the ICN website this quarter: Manager’s Corner: Promoting Milk Intake Manager’s Corner: Including Parents in School Nutrition Programs Training Culturally Diverse Groups Designing and Delivering Training Program Food [Read More]
Free Webinars
Take advantage of the FREE webinars available from ICN and USDA! The monthly S.T.A.R. Webinar Series is offered the last Thursday of each month. CACFP Halftime: Thirty on Thursday Training Webinars are held on the third Thursday of each [Read More]
Face-to-Face Training Update
Summer 2019 brought a record setting number of face-to-face trainings for the ICN Training Team! By the end of August, we surpassed the total number of trainings conducted in 2018 and are well on the way to over 500 [Read More]
Team Nutrition E-STAR Training Grants for State Agencies
On September 4, 2019, the Food and Nutrition Service awarded approximately $2.5 million in Fiscal Year 2019 Team Nutrition Training Grants for the E-STAR Training Program. This 4-year grant supports state agency implementation of a job-skills training program focused [Read More]