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Hacks For Healthy Back-to-School Habits

In early childhood, kids’ produce consumption meets recommended levels, yet it falls off as they enter school-age years. To ensure kids continue to eat fruits and veggies as a lifelong habit, Have A Plant® is partnering with grocery stores across the country to provide families with hacks that make reaching for produce as routine as brushing teeth!

As you plan for back-to-school this year, check out all the ways the registered dietitians at your favorite retailer can help you get more fruits and veggies into pre-school fuel, lunch boxes, and afterschool snacks, converting produce hacks into habits of health in the next generation.


Northeast Retailers

  • Visit the Meal Inspiration Cart and Wellness Center product display for hacks and recipes.
  • Check your store’s Facebook page for in-store dietitian demos of fruit and veggie hacks.
  • Make sure you are signed-up to receive Inserra emails for more information on convenient, easy meal ideas to build produce consumption habits for the whole family.


Mid-Atlantic Retailers

  • Weis Markets dietitians provide nutrition support through HealthyBites® Magazine and virtual cooking classes. Learn more about them here.
  • Follow the RD team in social media @weismarkets
  • Look for the Weis RD team on your favorite news station.


Midwest Retailers

  • Look for the Coborn’s RD team on Twin Cities Live.
  • Follow the RD team on social media @cobornsgrocery and @cashwisefoods.

  • Bring your kids to Fresh Thyme stores on August 10th to join back-to-school activities including a build-your-own snack station.
  • Each week during August, registered dietitian Meghan Sedivy will host back-to-basics cooking classes on Instagram @freshthyme.

  • Sign-up for the Hy-Vee Hacks for Healthy Back to School Habits challenge here for a chance to win prizes.
  • Subscribe to the This Week at Hy-Vee and Health 360 at Hy-Vee newsletters here.
  • Follow your fave Hy-Vee RDs @Hyveedietitians in social media.


Personalized guidance from the Meijer dietitians on how to get your kids eating more fruits and veggies! Limited to the the first 100 people to register. Participants who complete this FREE visit will also receive a $5 off fresh produce coupon code. Sign up here!

  • Pick up a copy of Simply Schnucks Magazine in-store for fresh ideas on helping your kids establish new fruit and veggie habits.
  • Be sure you’ve subscribed to the Healthier Habits email as the August edition will be filled with even more produce hacks.


West Coast Retailers


During the last two weeks of August, Natural Grocers Nutritional Health Coaches will offer Nutrition for the Win kids’ classes, featuring fruits and veggies of the colors of the rainbow. Register here. All shoppers who attend classes will receive a coupon for groceries!