Mar 08, 2016
ARLINGTON, VA – USA Rice is helping schools around the country celebrate School Breakfast Week with three great tasting, healthy recipes developed especially for the foodservice K-12 program. The three recipes, Berry Breakfast Brown Rice, Creamy Cinnamon Breakfast Rice Pudding, and Great Day Rice Wrap, feature U.S.-grown rice in the center of the plate.
“These breakfast recipes are part of our effort to promote rice beyond the side dish to the center of the plate and to get people thinking about rice for other meals besides dinner,” said Katie Maher, USA Rice director of domestic promotion.
Maher added, “By attending the School Nutrition Association (SNA) conferences over the years, we’ve compiled a database of influential school foodservice operators so we can regularly communicate with them and share new recipes and resources. This week, USA Rice sent an e-newsletter to SNA contacts promoting School Breakfast Week along with links to the three recipes and our Rice 101 Guide.”
Rice 101 is a compilation of everything a school cafeteria staff needs to know about how to make perfect rice for students in one handy reference guide. No matter which type of rice or equipment the school kitchen uses, the answers are all in the guide. There is also a collection of delicious rice recipes that meet child nutrition program requirements for grains in school meals.
The annual school breakfast celebration was launched in 1989 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to raise awareness about the availability of the School Breakfast Program which meets federal dietary guidelines and to highlight the established link between eating breakfast and academic success.