{"id":31600,"date":"2025-01-14T08:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/?p=31600"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:10:57","slug":"healthy-cooking-challenge-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/healthy-cooking-challenge-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Cooking Challenge for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy New Year! I hope this email finds you well as we kick off 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As promised, I am reaching out regarding Pomptonian\u2019s 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Healthy School Lunch Challenge, an initiative designed to treat the cafeteria as an extension of the classroom while celebrating National Nutrition Month. It\u2019s a wonderful opportunity to get students involved in the kitchen and excited about creating healthy meals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are key details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students are invited to submit a healthy recipe by February 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Submissions will be divided into three categories: Pre-K through 5<sup>th<\/sup>grade, 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0through 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grades, and 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0through 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grades.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For each category, we\u2019ll select two Grand Prize Winners and one Super Grand Prize Winner.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top three high school contestants will compete in a cooking challenge at Driscoll Foods in their professional kitchen on March 7<sup>th<\/sup>from 8:30AM-2:30PM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We created a short video detailing the competition:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LY4PM9pkXCM\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/LY4PM9pkXCM&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1736945285693000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2gtOgB2sxDCOlhUETDAMjF\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"nofollow\" >6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Healthy School Lunch Challenge<\/a>. Additionally, attached below are flyers with all of the details of the challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d love for you to check out last year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=34AxQl-ZvsU&amp;t=207s\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3D34AxQl-ZvsU%26t%3D207s&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1736945285693000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2fXrkgNJC1qY-MZHzbxDkP\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"nofollow\" >High School Lunch Challenge Cook-Off<\/a>\u00a0video and take a look back at one of our Super Grand Prize Winners:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6RSXbxZs4VQ\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3D6RSXbxZs4VQ&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1736945285693000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Fo2b-9IlWQpeLmWDznIOk\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"nofollow\" >Healthy School Lunch Challenge Winner: Antonella Marinelli<\/a>. If there is a culinary program in your district, we would love for you to forward this information to the teacher or advisor in charge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me know if you have any questions or need further details, I\u2019d be happy to assist!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healthy regards,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toni Marie Bowman, MBA, RDN, SNS<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director of Nutrition Services<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phone \u2013 (973) 241-3013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/files\/2025\/01\/6th-Annual-Healthy-School-Lunch-Challenge-24-25_HS.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">6th Annual Healthy School Lunch Challenge 24-25_HS<\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"nofollow\" >Printable Flyer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! I hope this email finds you well as we kick off 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As promised, I am reaching out regarding Pomptonian\u2019s 6th\u00a0Annual Healthy School Lunch Challenge, an initiative designed to treat the cafeteria as an extension of the classroom while celebrating National Nutrition Month. It\u2019s a wonderful opportunity to get students involved in the kitchen and excited about creating healthy meals.<\/p>\n<p>Here are key details:<\/p>\n<p>Students are invited to submit a healthy recipe by February 24th.<br \/>\nSubmissions will be divided into three categories: Pre-K through 5thgrade, 6th\u00a0through 8th\u00a0grades, and 9th\u00a0through 12th\u00a0grades.<br \/>\nFor each category, we\u2019ll select two Grand Prize Winners and one Super Grand Prize Winner.<br \/>\nThe top three high school contestants will compete in a cooking challenge at Driscoll Foods in their professional kitchen on March 7thfrom 8:30AM-2:30PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":31602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-north-news","8":"category-top-news","9":"entry","10":"override"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/files\/2025\/01\/pomptonian.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 11:20:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31603,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31600\/revisions\/31603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}