Utilizing the Cafeteria as a Classroom

This Breakfast Lunch Training (BLT) program is designed to provide school nutrition professionals with tools and resources that will enable them to develop and enhance a school nutrition program that will be recognized as an integral part of the education system. Published 2013.

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