School Nutrition Professionals

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    For School Nutrition Professionals

    Mushrooms make the grade.

    Fresh mushrooms can help schools serve on-trend, innovative, delicious, kid-friendly meals while complying with USDA guidelines and reaching their farm to school goals.

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    From lessons, to recipes, grab-and-go package labels, training and more, the Mushrooms in Schools website has a variety of FREE resources to help you and your foodservice team promote mushrooms in your cafeteria, classrooms, community, and beyond.

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    Culinary Training

    Looking to add flavor to your menus? Mushrooms in Schools has on-demand training approved for 1 CEU that will help your staff to deepen their culinary skills and showcase mushrooms on menus.

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    Farm to School

    The mighty mushroom, grown indoors year-round, is ideal for hands-on demonstrations, classroom growing experiments, and tasty scratch-made meals that support your Farm to School Program! To maximize your efforts and minimize your workload, we have several easy to implement resources available.

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    Classroom Education

    Mushrooms are not only fun to eat, they’re fun to learn about too! From exploring the mushroom growing cycle to understanding the many health benefits of mushrooms, our resources can assist you and your teachers in reinforcing and promoting mushroom nutrition education with your students.

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    Feed Your Immune System

    Mushrooms are nutritional powerhouses packed with important nutrients, such as vitamin B-6 and potassium (6% of the daily value) and many more! Adding mushrooms to your meals enhances flavor and nutrient density while supporting a healthy immune system. Fresh mushrooms are a great addition to meals kids love like pizza, hamburgers, tacos, salads and more.

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    Mushrooms are healthy on the plate and gentle on the planet

    Mushrooms provide many of the same nutritional benefits as vegetables, as well as attributes commonly found in meat, beans and grains. Did you know mushrooms are fat-free, low calorie, nutrient-dense, and low in sodium? Try creating mushrooms for your entree!

    Check out our Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes

    Sourcing Mushrooms

    Whether your mushrooms are sourced from commercial distributors or through USDA DoD Foods, it’s easy and affordable to enhance students’ favorite entrees with mushrooms (as a bonus, they’re grown year-round, and are local!). We created a Mushroom Sourcing Catalog to help you procure fresh mushrooms.

    Download our Mushroom Sourcing Guide

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    Calendar

    The Mushroom Council participates in a number of noteworthy industry events, samplings, presentations, conferences, and tradeshows. See what retail events we’ll be attending this year.

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    All About Mushrooms

    Mushrooms are nature’s hidden treasure: always in season and grown year-round. Learn more about the magnificent mushroom – from nutritional benefits to umami – we shed some light on this versatile superfood.

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    “We worked with Mountain Meadow Mushrooms, a local family-owned farm in Escondido, CA, to feature their crimini mushrooms on our salad bars. They grow and cut mushrooms on site and we were able to film the fascinating process of growing mushrooms so our students could learn about them and then try them on their salads. It was really cool!”
    Kathryn SpencerSDUSD Farm to School Coordinator
    “We were excited to see mushrooms on our Missouri commodity open order list. It’s always fun to experiment with new vegetables and to educate kids about them. We introduced the mushrooms in a Taste Test Tuesday recipe for marinated vegetables and are working on an egg Florentine soufflé using USDA eggs, mushrooms, spinach and cheese. We are looking forward to incorporating mushrooms into more recipes that our students enjoy. ”
    Carmen FischerDirector of Child Nutrition Services & Warehouse / Rockwood School District

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    Find our past and present press releases distributed by the Mushroom Council.

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