Food, Family and Fun has been produced by Team Nutrition to help you provide healthful, affordable meals at home, and to answer your children's questions about food and health in fun and entertaining ways.

We asked parents just like you what they would look for in a publication like this. They told us they wanted easy-to-use recipes that could provide families with nutrition information. They also wanted fun activities that could help them learn with their children about healthful eating.

Food, Family and Fun is filled with recipes from some of the nation's top chefs who have volunteered their time to bring you seasonal and healthy ideas for making easy, affordable, and delicious dishes at home with your children's help. There are also learning activities you can do with your children both at home and at school and fun facts to read together.

What Parents Can Do
Good nutrition begins at home -- and should continue at school. But it takes more than rules to make healthful school meals and to reach our goal of healthy children. To improve our children's school lunches, parents need to get involved in their schools.

That's why we created Team Nutrition. It is a network of public and private partnerships of parents, teachers, food service staff, health and education groups, and the food and agricultural community. These partnerships come together at the community level through the Team Nutrition Schools program.

Thousands and thousands of Team Nutrition Schools are leading the way in improving the school meals locally. At Team Nutrition Schools, a coalition of community volunteers is dedicated to making the school lunch program better, and to providing fun and entertaining nutrition education activities in the classrom and the cafeteria. Students in Team Nutrition Schools bring parent materials home, to link school learning with nutrition education activities that can be shared with the family.