Greetings! This week we're talking about the fast-food worker strike, protecting SNAP, healthy meals for preschoolers and more! Please share!
1. HOT LINE
Let's make the school day a healthy one for our littlest learners!
Join us in supporting The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as it updates the standards for meals and snacks in child care centers, day care homes, after-school and summer feeding programs. These programs feed more than 3 million children every day, and call for greater variety of fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, fewer fried foods, and more. We are also asking them to eliminate sugar sweetened beverages from daycare settings. Add your voice today!
#Fightfor15
Stand with striking fast food workers and FIGHT for $15 and fair pay for all on April 15. Millions of underpaid workers can’t support their families or make ends meet on hourly wages that haven’t kept pace with the bills – or their employers’ profits. On April 15, fast food cashiers and cooks, retail employees, child care workers, adjunct professors, home care providers, college students, airport workers, and all of us who believe they deserve better are showing up in cities across the country to say ENOUGH. Find out more & get involved.
Quick links:
- Tell Congress: Hands off SNAP! Despite the fact that 46 million people—including 1 in 5 children— rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for food each day, Congress is proposing a budget that GUTS SNAP.
- NYC's New Rule Limits Juice, Screen Time at Day Cares. New York City leaders adopted a new rule for 2,300 day care centers that limits 100% juice and reduces allowable sedentary time from 60 to 30 minutes a day. Souce: Salud America
- New Toolkit: “Don’t Sell Us Short”. The latest toolkit from Voices for Healthy Kids includes tactics for eliminating unhealthy food and beverage marketing in schools and on buses so that kids can develop healthy food preferences and habits to last a lifetime.
- Fewer NYC teens are drinking sodas: study. Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg lost a court battle to ban super-sized sodas — but he may have won in the court of public opinion. The percentage of New York City high school students drinking “soda or pop” plummeted during his last term at City Hall, a federal survey reveals. Source: Berkeley Media Studies Group
2. JOIN THE CONVERSATION
Connect, learn and share this month:
- Fri April 10, 1pm ET: #FoodFri Tweetchat: Let's Chat GMOs in Infant Formula! Join @MomsRising and @AsYouSow to better understand what GMOs are, how they are used in our food supply, and why it's important to promote awareness. More info.
- Sat April 18, 11:30am-2pm ET: Good Food Force Meet Up in Detroit! Connect with other Detroit Moms and join a lively conversation about local food issues impacting the health of our kids. Healthy lunch provided. Please RSVP to beatriz@momsrising.org.
- Thurs April 23, 7:30pm ET: Google+ Event: A Conversation with Tony Geraci aka The Cafeteria Man! Mark your calendars, and more info coming soon!
- April and May: Cafeteria Man Film Screenings! Interested in showing this powerful documentary to friends? Contact us for your free and easy film screening kit! Karen@momsrising.org.
3. YEARBOOK
Meet Kristy!
Hey GFF family! I’m Kristy Sinkfield from Nashville, TN. I’m married to a wonderful man who is pastor at Greater Bethel AME in Nashville. I have three delightful children, an amazing daughter-in-law, a grand-dog and will soon have my very first grandson – you can call me Gigi!
As I began having children, I realized that promoting healthy living early (eating, plenty of rest, sharing together) sets the stage for healthy habits later in life. I also learned it isn’t enough to talk about good habits, but actions speak volumes when trying to influence behavior. My family cooks and eats healthy meals together using more natural foods and less processed foods. At least three times a week, we gather at the kitchen table to enjoy conversation and a meal together. At least once a week, our meal is totally vegetarian. There’s nothing like making simple, homemade dishes with fresh veggies. One of our favorites is my Tomato Cheese Pie. This pie coupled with a fresh garden salad makes an amazing meal. Yum!
I am also assisting churches in beginning their very on “Biggest Loser” weight loss program and along with other First Ladies of churches in the Nashville area m partnering with the First Lady of Tennessee, Mrs. Crissy Haslam to develop ways to engage members of our local faith community to impact the quality of life for children.
A loving, caring mom wields more power than imaginable. Mom’s rock!
Thank you for all you do!
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Good Food Force (GFF) Volunteers are real-life superheroes who take action in their schools and communities, and/or on their blogs and online networks, to get the word out about healthy school foods, junk food marketing to kids, and strategies that are working to reduce childhood obesity. Together with MomsRising.org staff, they help advocate for healthier kids and families. Help spread the word! Contact us: karen@momsrising.org
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