• Nutrition:
  Division of Nutrition and Phycical Activity A helpful website hosted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Here you can find information nutrition, physical activity projects, and professional training opportunities.
  
  My Pyramid - Offers personalized eating plans and interactive tools to help you plan/ assess your food choices based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Check out special pre-school and kid versions as well as my pyramid for moms
  
  State of Alaska Obesity Prevention Program -Sign up to receive Alaska obesity prevention
  program news ,reports and statistics
  
  American Heart Association -- Learn about your heart with fun worksheets and songs.
  
  Eat Smart Play Hard -- Team Nutrition, Power Panther and more.
  
  Kids Club -- Healthy snack ideas, a picture to color, a song to listen to, activities to do.
  
  KidsHealth -- Learn how your body works.
  
  Nutrition Exploration- a great website full of games, activities and reciepes.
  
  North Carolina Department of Agriculture -- Print and color these pictures on food and nutrition.
  
  Science 4 Kids -- A variety of games & fun information about nutrition and science.
  
  

• Health & Safety:
  - State of Alaska DEC Food Recalls affecting Alaskan's.
  
  Consumer Product Safety Commission's joint release with Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Child Care Safety Checklist.
  
  www.FoodSafety.gov -Is a "gateway" web site designed to help the public find government food safety information more readily on the web. The siet provides links to food safety-related web sites from federal, state and local government agencies.
  
  Let's Move -America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids
  
  La Leche League - Information page for Breastfeeding Support
  
  American Museum of Natural History -- Try your detective skills with the “Infection Detection Protection.” Can you find the “Bacteria in the Cafeteria” or solve the “Mixed-up Microbe Mystery”?
  
  USDA Food Safety Games and Activities -- Numerous links to sites including Fight BAC.
  
  Food Detectives -- Play fun games, learn song lyrics and download activities.
  
  Food Hygiene Mission Control -- Facts, games, a quiz and more from the European Commission for ages 7-10.
  
  North Carolina Department of Agriculture -- Paint the food safety picture with the on-line paints and brush.
  
  Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department -- Help Super Scrub keep clean with these quizzes, games and coloring pages.
  
  U.S. FDA Food Safety and Nutrition Information -- Links to games, puzzles, careers, coloring books, songs and tips on food safety. Join in the fun!
  
  Kids Health  - A Great resource of recipes for allergy and special diet situations.
  
  

• Food Preparation, Handling, and Storage:
  www.mymenus.com -Meals for You web page. Can do search for recipes by word, meal plans by category, individual recipes by category, recipes by ingredient, recipes by course, etc.
  
  www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html -Web site for The Food Timeline. It has food from 17,000 BC to the present with links to information on each one. Try looking up Broccoli (6,000 BC) and Graham Crackers (1829). The links are fun and great for kids!
  
  
  
• Advocacy Organizations:
  www.cacfpforum.org/ -National CACFP Sponsor's Forum home page.

www.frac.org/ -The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and under-nutrition in the United States.

www.childrensdefense.org/index.html -Children's Defense Fund.

• USDA Sites:
  www.fns.usda.gov/fns -USDA, FNS web page contains information on sveral programs and initiatives including: Food Stamps, WIC, Child Nutrition, Food Distribution, Team Nutrition, School Breakfast Campaign and food recovery and gleaning.

USDA Food Atlas - http://www.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas

USDA ColorBook -- A book full of coloring pages and activities about nutrition, food and more.

• Other Sites:
  www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs/index.html -IRS forms.
  
  www.ed.gov/free/ -Federal Resources for Educational Excellence web site. This is a new site that bills itself as a one-stop site for teaching and learning resources. There are dozens of resources for teaching and learning from more than 35 federal agencies who collaborated on it's creation. Select "Health & Safety" and look at the many link sto other resources.
  
  Minute Menu -  Minute Menu Website with Technical Support and Contact information.
  
  

  USDA ColorBook -- A book full of coloring pages and activities about nutrition, food and more.
  

• Grains:
  Cheerios -- Simpler on-line games for kids and links to tips for parents.
  
  General Mills -- Login, create an avatar and play various arcade games.
  
  Home Baking Association -- Kitchen science fun, baking activities for kids and a "History Cook" link.
  
  Wheat Foods Council -- Check out the "Just for Kids" link for on-line games about wheat.
  
  Montana Wheat and Barley Committee -- Printable puzzles and games about wheat and barley.
  
  North Dakota Wheat Commission -- Check out the easy wheat activities and materials.
  
  Popcorn! -- Booklist, coloring and work sheets and interactive games. Beat Poppy at ping pong!
  

 

• Fruits & Veggies
  Fresh for Kids -- From "Down Under" fruits and vegetable fun. Lots of food jokes and on-line games.
  
  Dole -- Colorful Super Kids site with games, music, comics, videos, recipes and fitness.
  
  Florida Department of Citrus -- Color pictures, take quizzes, learn fun facts, obtain recipes and more.
  
  National Watermelon Promotion Board -- Recipes, activities and coloring pages all about watermelons.
  
  Produce for Better Health Foundation -- Activities and coloring pages and games by age group about fruits and vegetables. Fruits and Veggies, More Matters site.

 

• Meats & Alternatives
  Pork 4 Kids -- Learn about pigs, play games and printout activities.
  
  Virginia Carolina Peanuts -- Click on the "Kid's Corner" for mazes, activity sheets, puzzles and riddles, all about peanuts.
  
  California Cattle Women - Fun facts and activities for children.
  
  Kids Safe Seafood - Some fish are healthier than others—especially for children.
  
  
  

• Milk
  Milk Matters -- National Institute of Health games and activities.
  
  Powerful Girls, Powerful Bones -- This site provides information that encourages healthy bone and weight bearing physical activity for girls.