Celebrate Food Day! Find a Local Event or Create One- Monday October 24th

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Food Day is Monday October 24th! We encourage families, teachers, youth centers, neighborhoods and communities to get involved. It's not too late to participate!

We've rounded up some great tips, resources and recipes to make it a fun day for the whole family.

The Food Day theme is 'Eat Real America!'

You can use this tool to find a Food Day event or create your own Food Day in your local community and  add your event to the map.

"How can Food Day improve health, solve food problems, or celebrate food success stories—in your community? It is literally up to you.

A Food Day event could be as simple as organizing a cooking class or a vegetable-identification contest in your child's elementary school—or a healthy pot-luck dinner with friends. College students could organize forums that explore how our dietary choices impact the environment, the health of farm workers, and the treatment of animals. Health departments could kick off weight-loss campaigns. And city councils could hold hearings on how to lure supermarkets and farmers markets to underserved areas." Read more

Key points to know about Food Day- The 6 Principles

Reduce diet-related disease by promoting safe, healthy foods

Support sustainable farms & limit subsidies to big agribusiness

Expand access to food and alleviate hunger

Protect the environment & animals by reforming factory farms

Promote health by curbing junk-food marketing to kids

Support fair conditions for food and farm workers

Click here to visit Food Day and use their handy online form to Ask your Members of Congress to support the Eat Real agenda on behalf of all Americans! If you think you are too busy to celebrate Food Day - we encourage you to participate in any way you can. Here's some fun and easy ways to get the kids involved!

✰ A fun idea is to invite the neighbors over for a healthy potluck. Let them know about Food Day and the 6 principles. Inviting neighbors over for a Food Day event at your house is a great way to get involved and make positive memories for your children of Food Day 2011!

✰ Kids can help plan what food to make, take some time to discuss healthy and local fresh food choices while planning or shopping with your kids.

✰ To make it extra fun: Print our Healthy Conversation Cards - a fun and creative game to get kids talking about healthy topics!

✰The whole family can prepare the food for potluck on Sunday night together, so it's ready for after work on Monday or you can cook something easy together on Monday.

✰ Visit our partners: Kids Cook Monday for some easy recipes to cook with kids and Meatless Monday has some great new Meatless recipes too!

✰ Another fun idea is to visit a local farm or farmer's market this weekend and let the kids pick out a few new fresh fruits and vegetables to try.

✰ Talk to your kids about how food grows and the work that farmers do to grow healthy food for us all to eat.

✰ Ask your librarian for help finding some fun books about growing food and farmers to read with your kids on Food Day.

✰ Cook with your child on Food Day- here's a PDF guide to cooking with kids and fun cooking printables for kids

✰ Donate to your local food bank or spend a day volunteering there.

✰ Bring a healthy home-cooked meal or baked goods to a elderly neighbor or busy family! ✰ Attend a local event together- Food Day has a map to search for events by zip code.

✰ Find Food Day promotional materials to print out or share on your blog

✰Hosting a Food Day event guide

✰Get the Food Day Recipe booklet- Recipes from Food Day and All -Star Chefs

Information, links, and resources to celebrate Food Day:

Download Recipe Booklet by Food Day and all-star Chefs!

Teachers can use the Food Day Lesson Plans

Our partners Meatless Monday have a page About Food Day

America's First Food Day an article and links from NPR Public Radio Kitchen

Whole Foods encourages us all to throw a party for Food Day

Eat Real on Food Day on Every Day by Marie Rodale

Epicurious has a contest- Here's a great reason to throw a party: Host a Food Day event in support of your favorite local food bank, and tell us about your party for a chance to win great prizes, plus a fundraising donation match for your favorite food charity!

Find out more about Food Day and the contest or Visit their Facebook page to enter by October 31 for a chance to win. Good luck! Our website has fun interactive games and printables to teach kids about eating healthier!

We are excited to introduce you to some brand NEW Tools and Games that teach kids about nutrients in food

Nutrient Machine Madness

Interactive Nutrient Tool for Kids

Tool For Parents

*Reminder: Click on the language selection on the top of any our website pages to choose English or Spanish

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