ConAgra Foods Chef Volunteers for the First Lady’s “Chefs Move to Schools” Initiative

Today, ConAgra Foods Sous Chef Evan Brockman joined hundreds of other chefs from across the nation on the South Lawn of the White House for the launch of Chefs Move to Schools. This nationwide initiative, part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, encourages chefs to work with schools to help ensure kids get the nutritious food they need to live healthy, active lives.

Chefs Move to Schools will leverage the momentum of Let’s Move! to focus on the positive impact chefs can have on schools in their communities. Led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the program will pair chefs with participating schools in their communities to create healthy meals that meet the schools' dietary guidelines and budgets, and to teach young people about nutrition and making balanced, healthy choices.

“As a chef and a native of Omaha, the Chefs Move to Schools initiative is a unique opportunity to give back to my community while helping ensure children in our area have a healthier future,” said Brockman. “By helping schools create healthier menus and programs that give children the tools they need for lifelong healthy habits, I believe chefs like me can make a real difference.”

Prior to joining ConAgra Foods, Brockman worked at Vita, a Denver, Colo., restaurant that specializes in creating dishes made with seasonal ingredients. This experience combined with ConAgra Foods’ work to reformulate kid-favorite foods to make them more nutritious will enable him to better help an Omaha-area school implement solutions that take into account the needs of the school’s students and the school’s resources.

ConAgra Foods was a sponsor of an educational panel hosted by Share Our Strength, the leading nonprofit organization ending childhood hunger in America by surrounding kids with the nutritious food they need to lead active, healthy lives. The panel is for Chefs Move to Schools volunteers. Hosted in advance of the White House event, Share Our Strength's educational panel, “Healthy Schools, Healthy Kids: How Chefs Can Make a Difference,” focused on providing the Chefs Move to Schools volunteers with information about how to best work with schools and how other chefs have made an impact in their local schools.

“Through our national sponsorship of Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline®, we’ve seen what a difference can be made when families are given the tools and knowledge to plan nutritious meals on a budget,” said Kori Reed, ConAgra Foods Foundation executive director. “In many ways, schools are no different, working to feed students nourishing meals and sticking to a tight budget while doing so. Leveraging the expertise of the chef community, the Chefs Move to Schools initiative can make a difference.”

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