{"id":285,"date":"2015-02-13T11:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connect.pasco.k12.fl.us\/pcs-wellness\/?p=285"},"modified":"2015-02-13T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:41:54","slug":"mary-giella-elementary-school-cafeteria-promotes-a-healthy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/2015\/02\/13\/mary-giella-elementary-school-cafeteria-promotes-a-healthy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Giella Elementary School Cafeteria Promotes a Healthy Valentine's Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candies, chocolate, cupcakes and cookies are the usual classroom Valentine\u2019s Day treats. However, for students at Mary Giella Elementary School, Valentine\u2019s Day treats are just as sweet but much healthier. The school\u2019s cafeteria manager, Julie Kennedy, has offered Fruit Friendship Grams for the past six years. When asked what sparked the idea for these alternative sweet treats, Kennedy said, \u201cI saw a picture of them once and thought it was a cute idea and I thought it would be a great way to spotlight the cafeteria and the healthy things we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One of the Fruit Friendship Grams with the “text like” message reading U R “Pear-fect.”<\/p><\/div>\n

The Fruit Friendship Grams are pieces of fruit like bananas, oranges and apples with a \u201ctext like\u201d message attached that reads \u201cI\u2019m Bananas for You!\u201d or \u201cU R Sweet\u201d or \u201cU R the Apple of my Eye!\u201d The Fruit Grams could be purchased and would be delivered during the week of Valentine\u2019s Day from February 9th \u2013 13th. Parents, students and teachers all bought them either as singles or an entire fruit basket could be bought for a class. Overall, more than 400 pieces of fruit were sold, but a successful and healthy undertaking should not be surprising for a Healthier U.S. School Challenge award recipient like Mary Giella Elementary School.<\/p>\n

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Valentine’s Day themed messages attached to bananas, apples, oranges, pears and grapes make up this fruit basket that could be purchased through the cafeteria at Mary Giella Elementary School.<\/p><\/div>\n

You can learn more about the Healthier U.S. School Challenge by visiting this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guest Blogger: Raneitra Grover, MPH, Team Nutrition Coordinator, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Candies, chocolate, cupcakes and cookies are the usual classroom Valentine\u2019s Day treats. However, for students at Mary Giella Elementary School, Valentine\u2019s Day treats are just as sweet but much healthier. The school\u2019s cafeteria manager, Julie Kennedy, has offered Fruit Friendship Grams for the past six years. When asked what sparked the idea for these alternative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[52,53,68,75,80,93,94,117,150,168],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-your-school","tag-fruit-friendship-grams","tag-fruit-grams","tag-healthier-us-school-challenge","tag-hussc","tag-julie-kennedy","tag-mary-giella-elementary-school","tag-mges","tag-raneitra-grover-mph","tag-student-wellness","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pascostudentwellness.pasco.k12.fl.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}