Welcome to this week's Good Food Force Update! We're celebrating FALL with some healthy apple recipes, and a Healthy Halloween Tweetchat. Also check out a great training opportunity with MomsRising.org in Washington, D.C.! As always, please read and share. Thanks!
1. THE HOT LINE
Good Food Force ... UNITE!
We’re bringing together a powerful group of moms, advocates and experts for the first national Good Food Force Meeting in Washington, D.C. November 7-8, and we're looking for food superheroes to join us! Momsrising.org will cover travel, accommodation and food expenses for selected participants. Interested? Let us know here.
This will be an awesome moment to meet other inspired parents and food activists, learn more about healthy school foods and junk food marketing to kids, and build real skills for making change happen. Participants will leave with a strong sense of what they can do to support healthy kids and communities back at home. Read more on our blog.
Check Out the Latest From Our Blog!
- Four Good Reasons to Encourage Less Soda Consumption, by Elisa Batista
- Drawing the Line at Cupcake Cones, by Manel Kappagoda
- Top 10 Ways to Eat Healthy Without Going Broke, reposted from Care2
2. MORNING STRETCH
Join Today's #FoodFri Tweetchat: Healthy Halloween!
October brings shorter days, crisp apples, pumpkins and Halloween. It also marks the beginning of Halloween candy, school parties and an onslaught of junk food ... Yet, we can avoid those sugar crazed Zombies and go bananas over healthy options! Join #FoodFri TODAY at 1PM ET with @MomsRising and @400Moms to chat about healthier Halloween alternatives. Learn strategies that are fun, festive and healthy!
3. SALAD BAR
25 Healthy Apple Recipes
Fall! Apples! Yum! Check out a few healthy apple recipes, below, and find many more in a great compilation on The Lemon Bowl.
- Whole Grain Pancakes with Warm Apple Topping, from the Lemon Bowl
- Apple Peanut Butter Overnight Oats, from the Lemon Bowl
- Slow Cooker Apple Pie-Spiced Pear Applesauce, from NoblePig.com
- Creamy, Dreamy Roasted Apple and Butternut Squash Puree, from The Culinary Life
- Green Apple Sorbet, from Kitsch in the Kitchen
- Apple-Cinnamon Energy Bars, from Confessions of a Bright-Eyed Baker
Photo credit: The Lemon Bowl. Got a favorite recipe you want to share in a future GFF update? Please email to karen@momsrising.org!
Have a great week!
- Karen, Migdalia, Monifa, Donna, Dream and the rest of the MomsRising.org Food Team!
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Good Food Force (GFF) Volunteers are real-life superheroes who take action in their schools and communities, and/or on their blogs and online networks, to get the word out about healthy school foods, junk food marketing to kids, and strategies that are working to reduce childhood obesity. Together with MomsRising.org staff, they help advocate for healthier kids and families. Help spread the word! Contact us: karen@momsrising.org
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