Meals for Good : An innovative community project to provide healthy meals to children in early care and education programs through food bank catering
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pilot was to explore feasibility of implementing a food bank-based catering model to ECE programs to provide more nutritious meals, compared to meals brought from home (a parent-prepared model). In 2014-2015, a 12-month project was implemented by a food bank in central Florida in four privately-owned ECE programs. An explanatory sequential design of a mixed-methods evaluation approach was utilized, including a pre-post menu analysis comparing parent-prepared meals to the catered meals, and stakeholder interviews to determine benefits and barriers. The menu analysis of lunches showed daily reductions in calories, fat, and saturated fat, but an increase in sodium in catered meals when compared to parent-prepared meals. Interviews with ECE directors, teachers, parents, and food bank project staff, identified several benefits of the catered meals, including healthfulness of meals, convenience to parents, and the ECE program's ability to market this meal service. Barriers of the catered meals included the increased cost to parents, transportation and delivery logistics, and change from a 5 to a 2-week menu cycle during summer food service. This pilot demonstrated potential feasibility of a food bank-ECE program partnership, by capitalizing on the food bank's existing facilities and culinary programming, and interest in implementing strategies focused on younger children. The food bank has since leveraged lessons learned and expanded to additional ECE programs.
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- Titre Crossref
- Meals for Good : An innovative community project to provide healthy meals to children in early care and education programs through food bank catering
- Date Crossref
- 01/12/2017
- Éditeur
- Elsevier BV
- Type
- journal-article
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Où se fait cette recherche
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Swanson Center pays non établi dans la noticeÉtablissement de santé
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Office of Disease Prevention pays non établi dans la noticeOrganisme public
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Office of Policy pays non établi dans la noticeOrganisme public
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Community Food Bank pays non établi dans la noticeOrganisation à but non lucratif
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Second Harvest Food Bank pays non établi dans la noticeOrganisation à but non lucratif
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Agency Relations and Programs pays non établi dans la noticeOrganisme public
Swanson Center, Office of Disease Prevention et Office of Policy, avec 3 autres affiliations.
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