SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND FUNDRAISING
We are in the process of promoting our new SCHOOL PROGRAM OF WHOLE FOOD SNACKS. This is a great way to keep the kids familiar with eating healthy food while at school. Learn about the fundraising program and new products that will be introduced throughout this year; specifically for educating the school children & their parents.
These packages were designed by the children. They fit into vending machines and sell for $1 Schools can purchase them for half that and make 100% profit which can go to school programs for nutritional education or simply for buying more food to serve to those less priviledged. It is a fantastic program, but we need your support to get it going. We NEED implementation of these programs in the schools, in order to keep the production viable. Please contact me for more info and how to get involved in both SCHOOL PROGRAMS and NON-PROFIT organization benefits.
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Here's a little detail about some of the foods:
Cornucopia is a robust, slow roasted three corn crunchy snack that is a great alternative to the world of partially hydrogenated junk food. It is a unique blend of slow roasted maize corn roasted to delicate perfection. This amazing corn snack packs a powerful crunchy punch. It is produced the way the ancient Native Americans used to prepare maize and is uniquely blended with Grape Seed Oil & our own Stardust Pure Salt. 1.5oz
Veggielicious Spice is a spicy, crunchy combination of 12 low pressure dried ingredients. Maize Corn, Sweet Corn, Potatoes, Peas, Tomatoes, Carrots, Green Beans, Zucchini, Broccoli, Red Peppers, Green Onions, Green Peppers, & our own Cajun Spice blend (Pure Salt, Smoked Sweet Paprika, Chili Powder, Cayenne Pepper, Chipotle Pepper, Garlic, Lemon Peel, Onion, Parsley, Rosemary, & Black Pepper). 1.5oz
Fruitalicious Plus is a sweet, fruity, crunchy combination of low-pressure and sun-dried ingredients: Honey Granola, Apples, Raisins, Banana, Strawberry, Mango, Raspberry, Dates, Coconut, Currants, Figs, Cranberry, & Red Flame Raisins. This raw fruit snack packs a powerful fruity punch. Fruitalicious Plus is a tasty immune boosting treat that is also a great source of dietary fiber & slow disgesting sugars to keep the glycemic load down. 1.5oz
Corn of Plenty is a zesty combination of Maize Corn, Pecans, Cashews, Sunflower Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Soy Nuts, Grape Seed Oil, with a hint of our own savory spice blend to satisfy those taste buds naturally. 1.5oz
Cornaborealis is a hearty combination of Maize Corn, Pecans, Raisins, Cashews, Sunflower Seeds, Grape Seed Oil, Ceylon
Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Maple Syrup, & Stardust Pure Salt. It's designed to make your taste buds explode. This amazing, all natural corn snack packs a powerful crunchy punch. It's produced the way the ancient Native Americans used to prepare maize, and is uniquely blended with our Amazing Stardust Pure Salt. 1.5oz
Phi Plus is handcrafted using only raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, legumes and berries. The texture might remind you of a granola bar but the quality is FAR superior! A hearty snack and a superb meal replacement, it has all the necessary good fats and hard to fix whole grains that provide fiber and keep the glycemic index very low. It comes in other flavors like apple cinnamon, cranberry, coco cherry and tropical. Phi Plus comes in 1.5 oz snack bags and can also be bought in one pound bags. All of the products come in larger bags through the wholesale buyers club.
Wholefood Farmacy snack foods for schools are GMO free and contain NO artificial colorings, artificial flavorings, artificial sweeteners, chemical preservatives or Trans Fats. As whole food based snacks they are naturally high in protein and have zero cholesterol. Take one small step in the right direction with the Test Tasting Sample Pack. This includes 20 each of the five delicious snack foods shown above – 100 units total. Offer the snacks to your students for a taste test to see if they will enjoy eating pure, delicious whole foods.
Ask me about excitotoxins. These are chemicals put in food to cover any bitter or unpleasant taste. They actually bombard the taste buds in such a way that we can no longer taste the natural flavors of real food. These are called neurotoxins and have long term effects that may go unseen for many years but show up in peculiar unexplained, lingering symptoms.
Be very careful when choosing any processed packaged foods. This is especially evident in cheese and little snack foods and of course any candy that is flavored by unnatural chemicals that just "taste like" grape or cherry or apple. There is typically no nutritional value and often, no real food at all. These chemicals are so powerful that they are actually addictive and cause kids to crave that fake flavor. If the ingredients are hard to pronounce, they are even harder to digest and are foreign to the body. These can cause dis-ease and illness in little bodies that fill up with toxins and then appear as "allergies." It is a much bigger problem and we need to educate or friends adn family members.
Junk Food Marketing Prevalent in Montgomery County Schools link from Center for Science in the Public Interest
Study Shows Food Companies Target Captive School Audience
WASHINGTON—Junk-food and soda makers directly market to young children right in their schools, according to a new survey of public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. Conducted at the request of Montgomery County Council Member George Leventhal, chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) found that the most prevalent forms of marketing in schools are signs on the exteriors of vending machines, food sales in vending machines, posters, and school fundraisers.
Eighty-three percent of schools have posters or signs with food or beverage marketing messages (such as posters for Rich’s ice cream or Little Debbie snack cakes), and less than half (42 percent) of those signs market healthier categories such as dairy. Vending machines are a major source of marketing through product sales and advertising on the machine’s exterior. The county has strong nutrition standards for food sold in schools. While schools are working to reduce junk-food sales, many vending machines are still stocked with soda, juice drinks, iced tea, candy, cookies and chips.
Eighty-two percent of the vending machines have some marketing messages on their exteriors—most commonly, the images are of branded sodas, snacks, juice or water. All high schools and middle schools surveyed have vending machines, with an average of 21 vending machines in each high school. All of the high schools, half of the middle schools, and 30 percent of the elementary schools hold fundraisers with candy, baked goods, soda or fast food and other restaurant food.
“Food marketing influences children’s food choices, and ultimately their health,” said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan, co-author of the study. “Foods and beverages marketed in schools should meet the county’s own nutrition standards. Our public schools should be starting kids out on a lifetime of healthy eating habits. Permitting junk-food marketing in schools is like pouring gasoline on the fire of the obesity epidemic, when what we need is a bucket of water.”
One way chain and other restaurants market their products to school children is through fundraising nights, which drum up business on slow nights and associate their brands with the school. Four out of five Montgomery County Public Schools participate in such fundraising nights, often at restaurants such as McDonald’s, Chuck E. Cheese, or Ledo’s Pizza.
Food marketing in the form of product sales, advertising on scoreboards, school publications, and corporate-sponsored educational materials are common. Several elementary schools participate in Pizza Hut’s Book It program, which provides certificates for free Personal Pan Pizzas as rewards for reaching reading goals. (Each Personal Pan Pizza has 620 calories, half a day’s saturated fat and more than half a day’s sodium.)
“Junk food marketing confuses the line between education and promotion,” said CSPI child health project manager and study co-author Ameena Batada. “The modest rewards to schools are not worth the long-term costs to children’s health and well-being.” “Thirty percent of Maryland children ages 10 to 17 are overweight or obese,” Councilmember Leventhal said. “Parents have a big enough challenge guiding their kids’ food choices and promoting healthy choices. School policies should support parents, and not let junk-food marketers go around parents’ backs directly to young children.”
Wootan and Batada will present the findings of the survey at a hearing convened today by the County Council’s Health and Human Services Committee. CSPI recommends that the County’s Board of Education strengthen its policy of limiting marketing of low-nutrition foods in schools. CSPI also recommends that schools seek out healthy fundraising techniques as opposed to relying on candy sales or fast-food restaurant nights. CSPI published a report last year giving examples of successful fundraisers that don’t include junk food, such as exercise-a-thons, cell phone recycling programs, book fairs, and gift cards.
Elsewhere around the country, Maine passed a law limiting in-school food marketing to only food allowed under the state nutrition standards for food sales. California will be considering a bill on food marketing in schools.