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Celebrating 5 Years with Meg Chesley, CEO
Most people imagine school lunches the same: long, rectangular tables, white walls covered in posters and a long line of kids uninterested in the food being served. However, Meg Chesley, CEO of Health-e Pro, had a different vision for school lunches. Meg wanted to...
Standardized Recipes: Get Those Recipes Under Control!
Why Standardize Your Recipes? A true standardized recipe is a recipe that has been tried, tested, evaluated and adapted for use by a food service professional. It produces a consistent quality and yield every time when the exact procedures, equipment, and ingredients...
30-Minute Marketing: How Minutes a Day Can Make A Difference
What is a Brand? Simply stated, a brand is a promise to consumers. It communicates what your customer can expect to receive when they purchase your product or service. The brand promise is more than just tangible products and services, more than marketing. It also...
Why Health-e Meal Planner?
Why Health-e Meal Planner? ...because we believe that menu planning drives your business. When you get right down to it, your menu is sitting in the driver’s seat of your school foodservice program. Imagine your day without a menu! Your customers wouldn't know what...
The Trouble With Grains
Banishing the #1 Challenge to Administrative Review Compliance Are you stressing over your upcoming administrative review? As a multi-state reviewer over the past 5 years, I’ve looked at hundreds of menus across the United States and they all seem to have one thing in...
What to Feed Kids Who Eat Gluten-Free
When we think of making a menu that kids will like, we think of pizza, hamburgers, burritos, and pasta. We think of pancakes, waffles, muffins, and sweet rolls. We think of things common to the standard American diet. Unfortunately for someone who has Celiac disease,...
Tips for Training Adults Effectively
The advent of continuing education requirements for Child Nutrition professionals and staff adds a new complexity to your workload. You may find yourself in the classroom more often than ever, either as a student or as a trainer. Making this obligatory training time...
Saving Mealtime One Bite at a Time
Picture this, you have prepared a dinner for your family filled with all the healthy foods you know are good for their growing bodies; a protein, whole grain, vegetable or fruit, and a source of dairy. Everyone is sitting around the table happily eating, loving every...
We ❤ Change
Change. No one seems to like it, yet everyone experiences it. Change is as sure as the sunrise and like the sun, we all are touched by it. What I really think we don’t like about change, is that all too often we have no control over it. Change is just seemingly thrust...
10 Reasons to Switch to Health-e Pro
Let’s face it, menu planning can be a daunting and challenging part of any director’s day. But Health-e Pro can help you menu plan with accuracy and efficiency! Here are the top 10 reasons to make the switch and start the new school year ready to deliver delicious,...