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Are students or parents asking for vegetarian meal options on your menus? Looking to participate in Meatless Mondays this upcoming school year?  Great news! We’ve made it even…
Eighteen vegetarian and two pescatarian recipes are now available on the NutriStudents K-12 client portal. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/meatless-menu-options-now-available/


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Success Stories Testimonials Mobilize Your Marketing  The right technology can help child nutrition programs run more smoothly and efficiently, comply with federal…
In recent School Nutrition Magazine editorial supplement: “Tech on Deck,” sponsored by NutriStudents K-12*, clients give us high praise. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/bringing-you-snas-tech-deck/


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Commodities’ season is officially open as USDA Foods surveys go out to child nutrition programs across the country. Do you dread this time of year? Do you pull your hair out…
Do you dread commodities’ season? Do you pull your hair out guessing how much of which commodities you’ll use next year? STOP. There is an easier way. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/take-guesswork-out-commodities/


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Doing more in less time. That's a foodservice director's dream! Our Breakfast Menu Builder helps you do just that. It's the only tool you need to quickly and easily build out…
Our Breakfast Menu Builder helps busy FSDs build an entire year of SBP menus in minutes. Literally! https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/bmb/


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The NutriStudents K-12 Back-to-School Guide is not just for back-to-school time. It can help you shift to a new service model or improve upon what you're already doing. If your…
Need help shifting to hybrid or distance learning? Download our free Back-to-School Guide – it’s not just for back-to-school! https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/bts-guide-helps-shift-distance-learning/


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Our product development team has been hard at work refining the tools in our Toolbox and adapting them to Google Sheets. The technology survey we conducted last fall revealed that…
The tools in our Toolbox have been updated, with some now available on the Google platform. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/tools-updated-now-google-compatible/


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The USDA recently released a series of infographics highlighting the use of USDA Foods and USDA Department of Defense Fresh Fruits and Vegetable Program in schools during 2016-17…
Districts will soon order commodity foods for 2020-2021. Our Commodities Forecasting Calculator can help you order accurately. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/commodities-season-coming/


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Standardized recipes and pre-planned menu weeks are great but to make them even more convenient, they need to be easily scalable to your daily meal counts. Enter our crack product…
Our new CookBook instantly sizes your daily recipes based on your specific student population. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/introducing-our-new-cookbook/


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We know there are days when you offer menus other than those on NutriStudents K-12. Perhaps it's a student favorite held over from your pre-NutriStudents K-12 days or a special…
Our new digitally editable FPR is super convenient for days when you offer a non-NutriStudents K-12 menu. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/fprs-simplified/


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Our Breakfast Menu Builder has been a helpful tool for many of our clients to quickly and easily build out an entire year of breakfast menus in a fraction of the time required to…
The functionality and simplicity of our proprietary Breakfast Menu Builder will soon be even greater. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/enhanced-breakfast-menu-builder-coming-soon/


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And the winner is...

Oct 31, 2018

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The votes have been tallied. The lawyer has been consulted. And the entrant has been notified! The winner of our recent naming contest for our forthcoming tool is DataBitesTM!…
Congratulations to Jodi Nickell, who submitted the winning name for our forthcoming inventory management/product ordering tool. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/and-winner/


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  "We had our review yesterday and everything was perfect! Everything the reviewer wanted, we had ready. And we knew everything was right. She only spent an hour of the day…
NutriStudents K-12 helps clients fly through their Administrative Reviews with fully compliant menu weeks, checklists, tutorial videos and one-on-one support. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/make-your-administrative-review-snap/


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  NEW TOOL NAMING CONTEST You could win a $50 or $100 Amazon gift card! NutriStudents K-12 is excited to launch our most highly developed and functioning tool yet. This new…
https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/our-new-time-saving-tool-needs-name/


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The general market basket for NutriStudents K-12 menus simplify distributor orders significantly over what many districts currently use. Our executive chef, registered dietitian…
https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/distributor-synced-market-baskets-simplify-ordering/


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Our valued strategic partner, the National Joint Powers Alliance, has a new name -- Sourcewell! After more than a year of research and work, the Sourcewell brand was unveiled on…
https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/njpa-becomes-sourcewell1/


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Making full use of your USDA Foods (Commodities) is one way to ensure the financial success of your foodservice program. Generally, it's difficult to determine which and how much…
https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/help-commodities-allocations/


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Why work with NutriStudents K-12? (part one) to Increase Revenues and Participation:  Why work with NutriStudents K-12? (part three): to Ensure Compliance   Don't see…
https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/why-work-nutristudents-k-12-part-two/


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  Creating, promoting and reporting on breakfast menus are a snap!      NutriStudents K-12 is thrilled to introduce another new tool to lighten FSDs' workload: the…
https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/new-breakfast-menu-builder-makes-breakfast-snap/


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Related Content: NutriStudents K-12 Market Baskets Help with Commodities Allocations   Projecting your use of USDA commodity foods can be tricky six months to a…
https://nutristudentsk-12.com/news/fresh-bites-blog/commodity-forecasting-tool-projects-usage/


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