• Meeting the Challenge Recipe Book  These recipes were created to go along with the Meeting the Challenge Videos located at www.youtube.com/miteamnutrition1.

• Fresh Meals Videos The videos feature James Beard Award winning Chef Jimmy Schmidt, providing innovated tips to creating appetizing school cafeteria environments and healthier school meals.

• Fresh Meals Video Recipes  These recipes were created to go along with the Fresh Meals Videos located at www.youtube.com/user/miteamnutrition1.

• Fresh Meals Newsletters These newsletters were created for foodservice professionals, educators and parents. They provide healthy recipes, fun facts and the history of a particular fruit and vegetable.

• HealthierUS Schools Challenge Award Criteria  This powerpoint presentation will help you to understand the criteria for qualifying for the HealthierUS School Challenge Award.

• School Garden Nutrition Education Toolkit

• Playbook for a Healthier School Environment This Playbook provides users with the best national and state resources illustrating how schools can comply with the 2010 DGA, empower students to make healthy food choices and be physically active, and encourage parents and others to serve as role models.

• Alternatives To Foods As Rewards  Food is often used to reward good behavior. Unfortunately, the reward often undermines nutrition education and encourages over-consumption of foods high in fat or sugar. Here you will find alternative rewards suggestion. They not only encourage positive behavior in the classroom, but in the lunchroom as well.

• Bridges and Barriers to Working in K-8 Low-Income Schools - School Needs Assessment: Focused on Nutrition and Physical Activity 2007 

• Family Fun Guide A fill-in-the-blank template and instructions for creating a personalized (community-specific) pocket guide that contains over 30 different ideas for families to explore physical activity opportunities in their communities.

• Family Tip Sheets

• Healthy Reading Lessons  A collection of ten one-hour lesson plans that use popular children's books to teach basic nutrition, physical activity, and reading concepts. For grades K-2

• Preschool Booklist  An annotated list of over 250 books about food, nutrition, healthy eating and physical activity for young children

• Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist  An annotated list of over 400 books with positive food, nutrition and physical activity messages for children in grades K-2

• Pyramids Between the Pages The Pyramids Between the Pages Mini-pack is a take-and-teach curriculum that links the development of beginning literacy skills with nutrition and physical activity education and promotion. The curriculum is designed for use with children in grades K-2, in school, in an out-of-school setting, or in a community-based program.

• Role Modeling for a Healthy School Environment  Ideas generated from the Team Nutrition Mini-grant Training held on November 1, 2006

• Tips and Tools to Help Implement Michigan's Healthy Food and Beverage Policy  This resource was developed by Michigan Action for Healthy Kids to help schools implement the policy passed by the Michigan State Board of Education.

• Tips and Tools to Promote Physical Education and Physical Activity  This resource was developed by Michigan Action For Healthy Kids to help schools implement the Quality Physical Education Policy passed by the Michigan State Board of Education.

• Can't Find What You're Looking For?E-mail School Nutrition and Training Programs at mde-schoolnutrition@michigan.gov

• For More Team Nutrition Resources:Check out the National Team Nutrition Web