Shaking It Up: Small Changes Lead to Big Flavors
The Shaking It Up! sodium resources provide tangible, practical guidance for school nutrition professionals to implement sodium reduction best practices and strategies in their school foodservice operations. The Shaking It Up! resource page provides a range of educational resources and training materials. Also available are sodium training worksheets, which provide a deep dive into a sodium reduction topic and related strategies, feature scenarios or school success stories to demonstrate sodium reduction best practices, and include activities to test and reinforce key concepts. These training worksheets can be used for individual learning and can also be incorporated into school staff trainings on sodium reduction topics.
Sodium in School Meals
worksheets
| Title | Date added | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Scoping Out Sodium in School Menus | December 15, 2021 | Download |
| Sodium Swaps: Utilizing Product Substitution | December 15, 2021 | Download |
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Planning Lower-Sodium Meals
worksheets
| Title | Date added | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Principles of Speed-Scratch Food Preparation | December 01, 2022 | Download |
| Scratch Vs Speed-Scratch Recipe Comparison | November 11, 2022 | Download |
| Popular Speed-Scratch Menu Items | September 09, 2022 | Download |
| Equipping a Speed-Scratch Kitchen | September 09, 2022 | Download |
| Mindfully Seasoning Your Menus | November 11, 2022 | Download |
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Procuring Lower-Sodium Products
worksheets
| Title | Date added | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Cooperative Purchasing Groups | March 09, 2022 | Download |
| Incorporating Local Foods in School Nutrition Programs | February 15, 2022 | Download |
| Utilizing USDA Foods and USDA DoD Fresh Programs | February 15, 2022 | Download |
| Working With Your Procurement Partners | May 27, 2022 | Download |
| Writing Specifications That Limit Sodium | March 23, 2022 | Download |
| Cooperative Purchasing Groups (coming soon) | |
| Incorporating Local Foods in School Nutrition Programs (coming soon) | |
| Utilizing USDA Foods and USDA DoD Fresh Programs (coming soon) | |
| Writing Specifications That Limit Sodium (coming soon) | |
| Working with Your Procurement Partners (coming soon) |
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Worksheet Series Hyperlink Addresses
Worksheet Series Hyperlink Addresses
| Title | Date added | Download |
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| Worksheet Series Hyperlink Addresses | April 25, 2022 | Download |
Other Resources
other resources
| Title | Date added | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Enhancing Flavors Culinary Calendar 2021-22 | November 30, 2021 | Download |
CICN Herbs and Spices Posters
CICN Herbs and Spices Posters
| Title | Date added | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Dried Herbs | April 06, 2022 | Download |
| Dried Spices | April 06, 2022 | Download |
| Fresh Herbs | April 06, 2022 | Download |
| Spice Blends | April 06, 2022 | Download |
| CICN Webinar – Scratch-Made Salad Dressings and Condiments | |
| CICN Webinar – Farm to School: Fresh Ideas for Preparing Fall Fruits and Vegetables | |
| CICN Webinar – Leveraging USDA Foods to Alleviate Food Supply Shortages | |
| CICN Webinar – Speed-Scratch: Quick Preparations for High-Impact Menu Items | |
| CICN Webinar – Culinary Techniques for Flavor Enhancement and Sodium |
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