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2004 Golden Carrot Award Winners
The Golden Carrot Awards go to food service professionals who approach child nutrition in an innovative way that encourages children to eat more healthfully. The winning programs feature low-fat meals; encourage kids to eat lots of fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; provide vegetarian or vegan menu items; resp |
Incorporating Vegetarian Meals on College Campuses
Incorporating Vegetarian Meals on College Campuses Very often, students living on college and university campuses are required to purchase a set meal plan, which may not include enough variety to meet the needs of vegans. However, students can work to improve plant-based food options offered on their campus. This i |
2012 Golden Carrot Award Winners
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has named the following winner and runners-up in the 2012 Golden Carrot Awards. A cash prize to benefit the food service programs accompanies the award for the winner and runners-up. The winner receives $3,000 and the runners-up receive $750. PCRM established the Golde |
Natalie Portman Congratulates PCRM’s 2011 Golden Carrot Award Winners
Oscar-winning actress and new mom Natalie Portman recently congratulated the Los Angeles Unified School District for winning PCRM’s Golden Carrot Award for innovation in school food service. Runner-up prizes went to food service professionals in Denver and Greenville, S.C. Los Angeles Unified School District |
Prize-Winning Food Service Workers Serve Veggie School Lunches
From the Golden Gate to the Peach State, school lunches are getting healthier. Cheeseburgers and chicken wings are giving way to fruits, vegetables, and low-fat vegetarian meals. As students prepare to head back to school, PCRM announced the winners of its 2009 Golden Carrot Awards for innovation in school food ser |
Cash Prizes for Vegetarian School Lunches
Do you know a student whose school serves veggie gumbo and jerk tofu? Or maybe your local school provides soymilk and rice milk at no cost to students. If you know food service professionals who have developed and implemented healthful and successful school lunch programs, nominate them for PCRM’s 2009 Golden |
Doctors Name Healthiest School Lunch Programs in United States
Schools in Saint Paul, Minn., Spartanburg, S.C., and the Bay Area Earn Top Honors in Golden Carrot Awards; Winning Menus Emphasize Obesity-Fighting Meals WASHINGTON—School cafeterias across the country will ditch mystery meat for fruits, vegetables, and healthy plant-based meal options. The nonprofit Physicians |
Doctors Name Healthiest School Lunch Programs in United States
Schools in Los Angeles, Denver, and Greenville, S.C., Take Top Honors in Golden Carrot Awards; Winning Menus Emphasize Fruits, Vegetables, Vegetarian Meals WASHINGTON—School cafeterias across the country are ditching the mystery meat and serving up fruits, vegetables, and healthy plant-based meal options. D |
Veggie Fare, Soymilk Earn School Lunch Programs Thousands of Dollars
School cafeterias are ditching mystery meat for healthy plant-based options. Last month, PCRM announced its Golden Carrot Awards winners for innovation in school food service. PCRM established the Golden Carrot Awards in 2004 to recognize food service professionals doing an exceptional job of improving the healthful |
Doctors Name Healthiest School Lunch Programs in United States
Schools in California, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., Take Top Honors in Golden Carrot Awards; Winning Menus Emphasize Fruits, Vegetables, WASHINGTON—School cafeterias across the country are ditching the mystery meat and serving up fruits, vegetables, and healthy plant-based meal options. It’ |
PCRM’s 2012 Golden Carrot Award Winners for Healthiest School Lunches
An all-vegan menu, no red meat, and unlimited fresh fruits and vegetables are just a few of the innovations in food service found at the schools that won PCRM’s 2012 Golden Carrot Awards. Jean Ronnei, nutrition services director at Saint Paul Public Schools, earned the grand prize for her creative food servic |
2011 Golden Carrot Awards
Los Angeles Unified School District continually revamps its menu to offer new student-approved, plant-based entrées, including vegetable tamales, bean burgers, and avocado wraps. The district’s food services director Dennis Barrett and food services deputy director David Binkle received the grand prize of |
PCRM Extends Nominations Deadline for Golden Carrot Awards to Recognize Healthy School Lunch Programs
WASHINGTON—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is extending its nominations deadline until September 14 for its fourth annual Golden Carrot Awards for outstanding school food service professionals. The grand prize winner will receive $1,500 and a $3,500 check made out to her or his school |
PCRM Rewards Schools for Innovative Plant-Based Fare
California school food service director Vino Mitra works hard to encourage kids to choose healthful foods. Mitra won the grand prize in this year’s Golden Carrot Awards for the creative food service program he runs at Oceanside Unified School District in Oceanside, Calif. Oceanside Unified School District of |
Doctors Name Healthiest School Lunches in United States
WASHINGTON—“Mystery meat” is losing ground to fruits, vegetables, and low-fat vegetarian meals. It’s |
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