Power Up With Peanuts: Make School Breakfast Epic

Discover the toolkit that will help schools improve their breakfast programs and their students' health and academic performance.

About the Toolkit

The Power Up with Peanuts: Making School Breakfast Epic toolkit is designed to elevate school breakfast programs for middle and high school students. Created by the National Peanut Board, this free resource provides turnkey solutions, including recipes, best practices and strategies to boost participation, engagement and menu diversity—all while successfully managing food allergies. Focused on addressing the vital nutrients students miss without a healthy breakfast, the toolkit empowers schools to create cost-effective and appealing meal options. Access these valuable resources and make your school breakfast truly epic!

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9 chapters
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Chapter One

Why Breakfast?

We have tapped into our School Breakfast Champions from across the country to bring you this turnkey toolkit to elevate your school breakfas...

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Chapter Two

Where’s the power in Peanuts?

The power of peanuts is coming out of the shell (see what we did there?). While being a sustainable, vegetarian-friendly option that provide...

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Chapter Three

Breakfast Service Models

School breakfast supports students to do their best. Breakfast after the bell models (also called alternative meal models) have shown to red...

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Chapter Four

Stakeholder Buy-In

As with any program, you want to have the right people in the room to be successful. Power up your team for school breakfast by identifying ...

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Chapter Five

Breakfast Best Practices

For secondary students, breakfast is not seen as “trendy”. Most students want to spend their time with friends while the other large portion...

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Chapter Six

Timeline Checklist

There is a lot to accomplish to have a successful launch when you begin any new program. Just thinking about the to-do list can be overwhelm...

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Chapter Seven

Power Up Your Menus

Let’s take your recipes and make powerful breakfast menus. Before beginning the menu planning phase, first identify how the current menus ar...

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Chapter Eight

Marketing Materials

This school breakfast program is part of you and your team’s story to bring healthy meals to each and every student in the school district. ...

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Chapter Nine

Merchandising Materials

Merchandising materials make your school breakfast program light up the cafeteria. Like with any restaurant, we want this program to be easi...

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