Our school and Parent Support Group have really embraced the healthy foods and healthy living trend. The province of BC offers a fabulous program and it offers free resouces and supplies if you join the program. We offer veggies a week at lunch and milk three times a week, this has increased our lunch profits a lot and a lot of the money raised goes towards gym equipment. We have plans to increase our sports days to twice a year, implement winter intermurals in the gym during lunch and all fundraisers and events are geared towards either family friendly events or non food related products. So far the response from teachers, parents and kids have been 100% positive and the kids are actually eatting and enjoying their
monday veggies.

Hi - just wondering if any of you have dealt with objections to your organisation promoting unhealthy foods through fundraising or family nights?
To give you an idea, there is no way we could consider a Donuts with Dads event, due to the publicity about childhood obesity and healthy food choices in our community.
We haven't run a fundraiser involving candy/chocolate for three years, we can just get away with holding a cake stall now and again and once a month we have a "sausage sizzle" lunch for the school (BBQ sausages and wrap them in bread) but we also have to offer sushi as well, even though we make very little money from it.
I'm all for encouraging our kids to make healthy food choices but it does seem a bit OTT - it's not like we would be endosing donuts as a breakfast item every day of the week!
Anyone else dealing with these concerns?