Annual Conference
Conference Session
2019-11-08
"Up your Veggie Quotient: Playful Strategies to Encourage Fruit and Vegetable Intake"Key Areas: Nutrition
Session: Session A - Friday, November 08th, 2019: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
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Speaker(s): Jamie Kubota - Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
Nahid Sistani - Professor/Coordinator, Alabama A&M University
Objectives: Participants will become familiar with:
- NSLP requirements for fruits and vegetable offerings
- Serving ideas for tray lines to maximize visual appeal of fruit and vegetable offerings
- Playful "challenges" that encourage kids to try new fruits and veggies
- "Reward-systems" that don't involve food
Description: This session will focus on ways to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption among school children from the trayline to the classroom and out into school gardens.
Speaker Bio(s):
Jamie Kubota - San Jose State University
Speaker Bio:
A classically trained pastry chef, Jamie Kubota balanced her love for pastries with healthy cooking. She went on to earn a Master's of Science in Nutrition and the RD credential and is now an Assistant Professor of Food Management at San Jose State University where her research interests include culinary medicine and hands-on nutrition education programming.
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