Health & Wellness

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Water Wins

06-02-2013  Ideas and Innovation

With all the talk about empty calories from the sugar in sodas and juices, we have installed hydration stations with signs that say, “Water—The Best Choice.” The signs...

Magazine Recipes

06-02-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We cook items for mass feeding from recipes we find in magazines. Students trust these recipes because they are from a magazine like Cooking Light. We have the magazine right on the serving line as...

Gluten-free Products

06-02-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We plan on putting together boxes of shelf-stable gluten-free items. Students who are on a gluten-free diet will be able purchase those items with their meal plan. This program is slated to begin in...

Make Classics Healthier

06-02-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We try to use variations on practiced menu items. For example, instead of a standard pasta bar, we try to use lighter menu items such as fresh crushed-tomato sauces, egg-free pasta and...

Hot Cereal Additions

05-28-2013  Ideas and Innovation

On our patient menus, we added walnuts and raisins as toppings to our breakfast hot cereal. The goal was to increase Omega-3 and fiber on the heart-healthy menu and to provide something to help...

Less Than Three

05-21-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We wanted to highlight less-processed items at our c-store. We wanted to focus on items that had short ingredient lists. So we created an icon that we put at the point of sale highlighting items with...

Get Residents Involved

05-17-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We were looking for ways to get our senior residents to actually try new healthy choices. Just putting them on the menu didn’t work. We set up a cooking presentation where the residents...

Dietitian Tours

05-13-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We host monthly tours of our café locations with our registered dietitians. Groups of our employees are led around and taught about how to navigate the café to make the...

New Veggies

05-13-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We were looking for ways to add more variety to our vegetable selection. So we looked at some not-so-common vegetables, such as mashed parsnips, creamed cauliflower and mixed roots, such as carrots,...

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