First Pulling of the Carrots to Ring in VegOut! 2016 at MacGregor Elementary

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Recipe for Success Foundation Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education Showcase School, MacGregor Elementary, rang in VegOut! on March 1st by playing with dirt! Launching a new tradition in the school, they undertook the first ever Pulling of the Carrots!

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Children from all grade levels gathered around the garden to harvest fresh carrots and log in their first veggies for the month- carrots!

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We know that when children interact with their food and they’re more likely to eat it and we’re thrilled to say that all the kids loved their farm fresh veggies that they grew themselves!

How is your school celebrating VegOut!? Let us know and don’t forget t o register to win a grant from Chipotle to bring Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education to YOUR school!

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Mayor and Council Members Kick Off VegOut! at Houston City Hall

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Houston City Council Member Dav12768308_1146413012038368_2766709861255061502_o-3id W. Robinson helped us launch the VegOut! 2016 Challenge as city council members joined in the fun with their first veggie- carrots
At City Hall on Tuesday, March 1st, Mayor Sylvester Turner and Council Member Robinson presented Recipe for Success Foundation with a proclamation declaring the month of March as VegOut! with Recipe for Success Month. Council Member Robinson commended the foundation’s work inspiring Houstonians to eat healthy every day. “Recipe for Success is dedicated to improving the health of Houstonians by changing the way we understand, appreciate, and eat our food,” he noted before inviting his colleagues around the horseshoe to take the VegOut! Challenge.

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Gracie Cavnar, CEO of Recipe for Success, thanked the City for its support and announced that this year’s VegOut! participants can use the new smartphone app  to track their consumption of vegetables.
Join Council Member Robinson and his staff by taking the VegOut! Challenge this year. To participate, download the VegOut app on your smartphone, or visit www.vegoutwithrfs.org.12764689_1146413092038360_1164940072638856063_o-2

Announcing VegOut! 2015 Social Media and School Team Winners!

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Anisha Anand's East Meets Southwest Salad.
Anisha Anand’s East Meets Southwest Salad.

Congrats to our Facebook friends who scored $100 Kroger gift cards for their enthusiastic social media presence throughout the challenge. Winners include Ryan Hawthorne, Debbie Kalis and personal wellness chef Anisha Anand, who posted this great photo of her East meets Southwest Salad with Mango Miso Dressing. Yum!

For our Instagram Amore the Obscure contest, Jenna White won the challenge for fennel; Alma Adams (a teacher at Patterson Elementary) won for jicama; Anna Eastman won for kohlrabi. Both Jenna and Anna won a copy of Healthy Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Shubhra Ramineni. Also for sharing the love via Instagram during Spring Break, Jacinda Wolofoson won a one-year membership to the Children’s Museum of Houston for a posting photo of her son vegging out during Spring Break. Way to go!

Food blogger Francine Spiering won the Hostess with the Mostess prize for her great posts with beautiful photos on the blog Life in the Food Lane,. Check out her posts, such as A week in Vegetables and In my kitchen VegOut 2015. Francine won a fabulous Bumble & Bumble gift basket!

Head of the Class: A total of 17 schools rocked the VegOut! this year.   Continue reading…

Worksite Wellness Spotlight: Luby’s

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LUBYS VEGWe think Worksite Wellness programs are fantastic, because they cultivate peer support and collaboration for building healthier habits. Here’s another great example of VegOut! making a positive impact in the workplace. Now, this particular workplace happens to be an iconic Texas restaurant chain — Luby’s — where scores of people come in their doors and proceed to make food choices as they slide their tray along the stainless steel rails of the serving line.

We are proud to have Luby’s as a sponsor of Recipe for Success for the past 2 years, and as a VegOut! sponsor for 2015. “Luby’s Fuddruckers Restaurants, LLC got started as an Angel Affiliate and help create a vegetable garden for Lovett Elementary,” says Chisolm Tate, Human Resources Manager for Luby’s. “During the set-up for the garden, Molly Kaminski with Recipe for Success suggested that I VegOut! I took it a step further and in 2014: a team of 24 employees, including myself, took the challenge. We purchased a juicer and juiced a lot of the veggies — it was a fun activity and built a healthier team.” Continue reading…

VegOut! Fortifying Fort Bend Families

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Heritage Rose posterVegOut! 2015 has engaged schools across the Houston area and beyond. We love the creativity and enthusiasm that our Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ instructors, other teachers, principals and volunteers are channeling into this year’s VegOut! Challenge. Here’s a taste of the VegOut! fun blooming at Heritage Rose Elementary in Fort Bend ISD.

Viviana Ayala, the school’s Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ instructor, collaborated with Principal Shequelle Foster-Gims to open up the VegOut! Challenge the entire school. Ayala also created a clever, competition-inducing poster and placed it prominently in the cafeteria. “The poster reads: ‘Veg Out! Challenge! / The race is on … who will win?’,” says Ayala. “Below this is a graph on the left side with the grades from pre-k to 5th grade. As the percentage of kids per grade complete the 7-veggie mark each week that grade will get closer to the finish line. In essence it’s a race competition, which gives everyone a visual motivation to try more veggies.”

Both Principal Gims and Assistant Principal Nancy Sanchez offered their praise of Ayala’s motivational poster saying: “We love your idea of the VegOut! graph Competition.” Continue reading…