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Edible Express

A quarterly newsletter for education professionals featuring nutrition topics, exemplary local teachers, school nutrition education trends and legislation and special events.

Issues Articles Type Date Added
Volume IX, Issue III - Fall 2010 Articles include: Need More Time?; Feed Your Appetite – Protect Your Wallet: Satisfying Snacks for Starving Students; School Food- the Beat Goes On; Boney Maroni. PDF 8/20/10
Volume IX, Issue II - Summer 2010 Articles include: What Can Just One Person Do? Making a Difference in King City; Tackling Childhood Obesity with Active Play; Circuit of Play; Watermelon Agua Fresca; and A Fitting Finale PDF 5/7/10
Volume IX, Issue I - Spring 2010 Recipe for Success (test success!); Eat to Optimize Performance; Eat Something Green; Exercise Your Brain PDF 3/17/10
Volume VIII, Issue III - Winter 2009 Articles include: Teens Get a Great Start in Salinas Union High School District; Take Another Look: MyPyramid Portions for Teens from USDA FNS Team Nutrition; Benefits of Cooking With Children - with Recipe From UCCE Placer County; Rudd Center Report on Taking Junk food Out of School Cafeteria, Video on Weight Myths & Prejudice and an Introduction to the California Endowment Building Health Communities Project in Alisal. PDF 1/21/10
Volume VIII, Issue II - Fall 2009 A Pledge of Health; Nutrition is Easier This Year; New DVDs in Resource Library; Introducing RAMPPAS - Sample Song and Physical Activity for K-1; Stay Healthy in School PDF 9/21/09
Volume VII, Issue IV - Summer 2009 UC-FSNEP and Children's Power Play - Your Dream Team; Summer Reading; Edible Landscaping; Something Tasty for Summer. PDF 5/27/09
Voulme VII, Issue IV - Spring 2009 Take a Walk in your Favorite School Garden; Farm To Fork; Standards-Based P.E. Activities for Elementary Teachers; Does Exercise Improve Students' PDF 3/20/09
Volume VII, Issue III - Winter - '08-'09 This is a "Special School Success" issue. PDF 3/7/11
Volume VII, Issue II - Fall 2008 Ms. Wright's Marvelous Classroom; Teachers' Corner; School Garden at the Beginning; This'n'That. PDF 8/5/08
Volume VII, Issue I - Summer 2008 Mr. Carrier and the Reading Garden; Water: Swim in it; Drink it; Real Life Applications in the Garden; Kids' 3K; Things to do This Summer. PDF 5/23/08
Volume VI, Issue V - Spring 2008 Green Kids; Resources, Resources; Real Life Application: A Sundial for the Class Garden; and Spring Flings: Upcoming Events PDF 3/24/08
Volume VI, Issue V - Winter 2007-08 Articles include: Bridge to Success ~CDE speaks at conference; Real Life Application~Winter Class Garden (includes math lesson linked to standards); Just Run's first "Just Kids 3K" PDF 11/13/08
Volume VI, Issue IV - Fall 2007 Prunedale teacher does the impossible; Real Life Application: Fast Food Hallof Fame and Hall of Shame, Welcome to Gonzales and North Monterey County Districts; Nutrition Label supplement included. PDF 11/13/08
Volume VI, Issue II - Summer, 2007 The Case of the Sprouted Onion- Watch Integrated Curriculum at Work; report on Local Foods Forum; Farmers' Markets; See You at the County Fair PDF 6/1/08
Volume VI, Issue I - Spring, 2007 New! VERB Activity Zone Kit available; Testing, Testing ...; Hand Hygiene, Updated; and School Garden News from Lifelab PDF 3/12/10
Volume V, Issue III - Fall, 2006 Nurse Mary Gives Students A Great Start; What's New in Our Library?; Real Life Application: Customers-in-training - Snack Sleuth; Get The Lead Out! PDF 12/5/07
Volume V, Issue IV - Winter 2006-07 Soledad Implements Nutrition Education District-wide; Browse Our Resource Library; Real Life Application: Goal Setting; and Fotonovela Fun for All PDF 7/19/10
Volume V, Issue II - Summer, 2006 "Something Fresh & Juicy" - Alisal Health Academy's Salad Bar; Implement your Nutrition Education Plan with UCCE; Summer Fun; Food News PDF 4/6/11
Volume V, Issue 1 - Spring, 2006 Celebrating Nutrition: Transform your Environment!; Announcing - Fun Thing for Student to Enter and Do; Integrating Curriculum - Eat Like the Pioneers, New Stamps Indicate the "wholeness" of a Grain Product; and How Groups Can Transform the Environment PDF 12/1/08
Volume IV, Issue IV - Winter, 2005-06 Our Teachers Are the Best! Monterey County Grows Health; School Garden Resources, MyPyramid Handouts; Winter Break Activity, Farm Day, Advertising in Schools; School Food- New Health Education Bill; Wellness Policies' Progress; and Heads Up! For Parent of Teens PDF 4/6/11
Volume IV, Issue III - Fall, 2005 Featured Teacher: Chuck Kolofer at Prunedale; School Garden Grant, Let's Get Moving, Fit Families Novela Series; Small Steps: One Student's Stury; School Food: the Beat Goes On; and Bony Moroney PDF 4/6/11
Volume IV, Issue II - Summer 2005 Ice Cream in A Can; New Resources; 5aDay Partner; Ord Terrace Speaks; Summer Pools PDF 4/6/11
Vol. IV, Issue 1 - Spring, 2005 New Pyramid, Envisioned; Food Guidelines Word Search; "It wasn't funny!"; Cartoon for Lincoln School; and an invitation to "Monterey County Grows Health" PDF 4/6/11
Volume III, Issue IV - Winter 2004-05 Teachers Rule; Winter Snacks: Personal Pizzas; Sugary Bribes Have Got To Stop; and Marion Nestle on School Food PDF 4/6/11
Volume III, Issue III - Fall, 2004 Snacks Should Be Satisfying; New Curriculum and Activities; The Leg Bone's Connected To...; Junk Food Drops Out Of School; Walk Across Monterey County PDF 6/25/08
Volume III, Issue II - Summer, 2004 Walk Across Monterey County?; Summer Should Be Juicy: Drinks; Critical Viewers - Here's A Great Link For You!; Weird Science: Eggs-periment; School Food: Be Part of the Solution; and Free Garden Curriculum Training Workshop PDF 4/6/11