The Daily Scoop - Easy home recipes - Healthy Kids Happy Planet

The Daily Scoop is a series of fun, consistent and easy to understand daily nutrition tips for kids, grades K-8. Added to the daily school wide announcements or a teacher’s opening routine, the Daily Scoop elevates plant-strong nutrition education to a daily practice, without adding more than 30 seconds to a teacher’s busy routine! FREE and available to start at anytime!

I LOVE the Daily Scoop! Each morning one of my students gets to read the message for that day on "good nutrition news." It's an important beginning to each day

The Daily Scoop is an excellent way for schools and teachers to infuse “bites” of easy-to-digest nutrition education into each school day. The monthly recipes (in English and Spanish) are a great tool to extend this information out to families, and link what the students hear at school with what they taste at home!

The Daily Scoop has been a fantastic resource for our nutrition education programs across the district. I love how the tips include a cultural and environmental perspective in addition to the more science-based nutrition tips.

The Daily Scoop is filled with fun kid-friendly health messages that spiral and build on each other over the course of the month. By making this part of our morning routine, my students have started to own the vocabulary to express how and why they should fill their plates with healthy fruits, vegetables and "cool beans!"

Spring INTRO/start issue is an introduction issue if you’re starting the program in March, April or May. This issue helps to establish key concepts such as Harvest of the Month, Cool Bean of the Month and eating in season.

March Issue (click here) — or if you’re just starting the program, the Spring INTRO / start issue

Harvests of the Month: Spinach (Vitamin K) & Berries (phytonutrients)
Cool Bean of the Month & Cultural Connection: Lentils & India, the Festival of Colors
Health Campaign: National Nutrition Month
Environmental Connection: Eating Sustainably

Click here for FUN Cool Bean activities and games, like “BeanGo!

Click here for Cool Bean character posters to color and create slogans

Classroom Culinary Project – Click here for easy, quick, no-cook Cool Bean recipes for SPRING

Nutrition Curriculum Connection: Cool Beans from Around the World, lesson 7 – INDIA Standards based, multicultural and interactive Google slide-show (30 – 40 minutes)

BONUS Enrichment, Kid’s Cooking Show – Queen Bean & Dr. Rachna make Kitchari

April Issue (click here) or if you’re just starting the program, Spring INTRO / start issue

Harvest of the Month: Asparagus (Vitamin E) & Kiwifruit (Vitamin C) Cool Bean of the Month & Cultural Connection: Black Bean, Brazil and Amazon Rainforest Health Campaign: Earth Day, making the food & environment connection Environmental Connection: Eating for the Planet

Click here for FUN Cool Bean activities and games, like “BeanGo!

Click here for Cool Bean character posters to color and create slogans

Classroom Culinary Project – Click here for easy, quick, no-cook Cool Bean recipes for SPRING

Nutrition Curriculum Connection: Cool Beans from Around the World, lesson 8 – BRAZIL & AMAZON Standards based, multicultural and interactive Google slide-show (30 – 40 minutes)

May Issue (click here)

Harvest of the Month: Avocado (healthy fats) & Carrots (Vitamin A) Cool Bean of the Month & Cultural Connection: Pinto Beans, Mexico & Cinco de Mayo/Mexican Pride
Health Campaign: Mental Health Month Environmental Connection: Eating Sustainably

Click here for FUN Cool Bean activities and games, like “BeanGo!

Click here for Cool Bean character posters to color and create slogans

Classroom Culinary Project – Click here for easy, quick, no-cook Cool Bean recipes for SPRING

Nutrition Curriculum Connection: Cool Beans from Around the World, lesson 9 – MEXICO Standards based, multicultural and interactive Google slide-show (30 – 40 minutes)

BONUS Enrichment, Kids Cooking Show – Queen Bean & Señor Miguel of School Nutrition (11 minutes)