Back To School (Not Just for Kids)!
Article written by Debi Havens, SN Bag Lady, featured in Served Digizine.
Better Breakfast Month
September celebrates “Better Breakfast Month!” This observance originated during WWI when the US government began encouraging citizens to focus on eating a better breakfast. The word breakfast quite literally means breaking your fast after sleeping all night.
As the new school year gets underway, now is the perfect time to start up a Breakfast in the Classroom Program in your district.
Here at Norris Products we have been working for years with school districts nationwide in the development of successful BIC programs. Please reach out to our knowledgeable K-12 Sales team for more information on how to make Breakfast in the Classroom work in your district.
We offer products that will deliver temperature-safe meals to wherever students gather. We are IN STOCK and READY TO SHIP!
Remember: It’s not “good nutrition” if the students don’t eat it! Make breakfast a priority!
Let’s Have Fun with Bugs!
First Day of Summer! Let’s have fun with Bugs!
Time to get outside and enjoy all that Sunshine, with a fun and healthy summer snack and a fun activity!
Ants on a Log!
Celery, cream cheese (or peanut butter), raisins or
Carrot, hummus and shredded chocolate
Try this summer fun activity. It’s a unique twist to tag.
Spider Tag
- One child is the Spider all the other children are the flies!
- When the Spider touches a Fly, the fly gets stuck in the Spider Web. The Spider and the Fly hold hands and chase the more Flies.
- Each time a Fly gets caught, the hand holding forms a larger web.
- Continue until there’s only one Fly left.
For a “cool” after Spider tag treat pass out yummy Smoothies! Safely delivered in Norris Products insulated bags with our spill-proof cup dividers Perfect drink to celebrate the first day of Summer.
Enjoy this link to a Smoothie Toolkit with recipes and more: https://www.midwestdairy.com/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/SmoothieToolkit-hnpxcm.pdf
World Food Safety
Norris Products proudly joins the world-wide promotion of World Food Safety Day on June 7th.
Here at Norris Products we take food safety very seriously. Keeping foods and beverages temperature safe is our number one priority!
We construct our bags using heavy-duty materials that offer you that extra peace-of-mind in keeping meals temperature-safe throughout the delivery process.
Add some extra fun at Summer feeding sites by serving nutritious Smoothies! You can deliver ready to enjoy, spill-proof smoothies with Norris Products Cup Dividers.
We are fully stocked and ready to ship!
Order today and we can ship tomorrow.
Summer Feeding Programs: Jazz up Summer with some fun themes
Looking for ways to spruce up your Summer feeding program? Here are a few fun themes:
Host a Summer Breakfast Program – Coordinate the breakfast meal with a Summer Reading Program. Team up with your school district’s library team, or the local library. Feeding the mind, body and spirit! Win-Win!
Build a garden during your summer lunch program – Team up with your local park department and find a spot of land that you can use as a teaching garden for your lunch kids. Look for volunteers from local organizations to help organize and teach the process of growing food. Lunch and Learn!
Make Lunchtime Fun Time – Check your summer park department for teen volunteers (think Pied Piper!) to help entertain and energize the children at your feeding sites. Hoola Hoops! Sing-A-Longs! A game of jump rope or Simon Says before the meal arrives. Engaging kids in fun physical activities can bring more kids to your feeding sites. Here they can benefit from the food for fueling bodies and the extra fun for lifting spirits!
Take a regular day of rest
A regular day of rest — a sabbath — is an important leadership practice because it enables you to fill up your tank so you can serve others. And taking a sabbath helps put your brain in task-negative mode, which leads to greater productivity and creativity.
Are you burnt out? Feeling more stressed and overwhelmed than usual? You probably need a break — not a squeeze-in-a-five-minute-walk-around-the-block break, but a day of real rest. In other words, you need to take a sabbath.
Although sabbaths may be associated with certain religions or spirituality, everyone — whether or not you’re a person of faith — needs to sabbath to set yourself up to lead effectively.
As a leader, you are constantly working in the service of others — customers, employees, shareholders or other stakeholders. And with everything that we’ve all been through in the past two years, everyone’s mental, emotional, and relational well-being is at an all time low.
So, as leaders, you need to be able to fill up and build up those around you — but you can’t do that if you don’t put your oxygen mask on first, as the airlines say. So, you must ensure you get the rest you need so you can fulfill your leadership responsibilities.