Trumbull Public Schools
Trumbull Public Schools
6254 Main Street
Trumbull, CT 06611
(203) 452 - 4300
Provided by the Trumbull School Lunch Program
Wellness Newsletter
Welcome to our monthly newsletter. Please check back every month information to help keep your family healthy and fit!
May - This school year, we’ve made a lot of changes to make our meals even healthier for you -- offering more of the healthiest fruits and veggies, cutting sodium, adding even more whole grains, and further reducing saturated fat, among other changes. Read more...
April - You can have too much sodium in your diet even if you never pick up the salt shaker. In fact, 75% of the salt we consume comes from fast food, restaurant meals, and processed and packaged
foods. It’s everywhere, and it’s not always easy to tell how much salt you’re getting. Read more...
March - A good breakfast gives all of us the fuel we need to accelerate into the day and excel all morning long! But modern households are hectic placesin the morning, and sometimes it’stough just to get up and out the door, much less eat a good breakfast. Read more...
February - Healthy eating is all about making adjustments. And our new menu guidelines are no exception. A quick recap: this school year, USDA put in place the most sweeping changes to our regulations in the 65-year history of the School Meals program. Read more...
January - “Low fat” or “non-fat” on the label doesn’t automatically make a food healthy. Unsaturated
fats are an essential part of a healthy diet. Saturated fat (in foods like meat, butter, cheese, and cream, among others) is unhealthy in the large doses that many of us eat, but a little butter on your baked potato or whole wheat bread can easily be part of a healthy diet. Read more...
December - Calories count! All sorts of culinary culprits have been blamed for America’s obesity epidemic, including fast foods, soda, carbs, and fat. But, bottom line, we simply tend to take in too many calories, in whatever form. Read more...
November - We’ve been gradually adding whole-grain rich foods to our menus at school for years. And, within two years, ALL of the grains we serve will be whole-grain rich. Why? Whole-grain foods contain more fiber, vitamins, and minerals than refined grains. Read more...
October - Healthy colors! It makes sense to eat the foods that are best for our health more often -- and sometimes color is the best indicator of healthfulness. Read the Newsletter!
September - Studies have shown that most of us eat only about a third of the 2 cups of fruit and less than half of the 2.5 cups of vegetables recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Read the Newsletter!
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