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    Open NOW! Submit your entry to The Kids Eat Mushrooms Too! Recipe Contest

    We’re looking for your favorite recipe that utilizes fresh mushrooms in a delicious and innovative way! Enter your recipe in our contest and you could win BIG. The K-12 contest is open from July 30th to September 30th! For entry requirements, prizes, and to submit your recipe, click below. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

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    From lessons, to recipes, grab-and-go package labels, training and more, the Mushrooms in Schools website has a variety of FREE resources to help you and your foodservice team promote mushrooms in your cafeteria, classrooms, community, and beyond.

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    Featured Resource!

    Looking for lesson plans that meet standards and are ready to go? Mushrooms in Schools has lesson plans ready for your children to learn with activities about mushroom types, care, and much more! Explore all of our resources for child care and WIC.

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    Culinary Training

    Looking to add flavor to your menus? Mushrooms in Schools has on-demand training approved for 1 CEU that will help your staff to deepen their culinary skills and showcase mushrooms on menus.

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    Mushroom Medley

    Mushroom Medley

    Mushroom & Swiss Burger

    Mushroom & Swiss Burger

    Teriyaki Stir Fried Mushrooms & Green Beans

    Teriyaki Stir Fried Mushrooms & Green Beans

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    Farm to School

    The mighty mushroom, grown indoors year-round, is ideal for hands-on demonstrations, classroom growing experiments, and tasty scratch-made meals that support your Farm to School Program! To maximize your efforts and minimize your workload, we have several easy to implement resources available.

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    Classroom Education

    Mushrooms are not only fun to eat, they’re fun to learn about too! From exploring the mushroom growing cycle to understanding the many health benefits of mushrooms, our resources can assist you and your teachers in reinforcing and promoting mushroom nutrition education with your students.

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    Feed Your Immune System

    Mushrooms are nutritional powerhouses packed with important nutrients, such as vitamin B-6 and potassium (6% of the daily value) and many more! Adding mushrooms to your meals enhances flavor and nutrient density while supporting a healthy immune system. Fresh mushrooms are a great addition to meals kids love like pizza, hamburgers, tacos, salads and more.

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    Mushrooms are healthy on the plate and gentle on the planet

    Mushrooms provide many of the same nutritional benefits as vegetables, as well as attributes commonly found in meat, beans and grains. Did you know mushrooms are fat-free, low calorie, nutrient-dense, and low in sodium? Try creating mushrooms for your entree!

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    Sourcing Mushrooms

    Whether your mushrooms are sourced from commercial distributors or through USDA DoD Foods, it’s easy and affordable to enhance students’ favorite entrees with mushrooms (as a bonus, they’re grown year-round, and are local!). We created a Mushroom Sourcing Catalog to help you procure fresh mushrooms.

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    🔍 Exploring Mushrooms 🕵️

    🔍 Exploring Mushrooms 🕵️

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    Make Room For Mushrooms 🤩

    Make Room For Mushrooms 🤩

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    Shiver Me Timbers...Kids Eat Mushrooms Too!

    Shiver Me Timbers...Kids Eat Mushrooms Too!

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    Calendar

    The Mushroom Council participates in a number of noteworthy industry events, samplings, presentations, conferences, and tradeshows. See what retail events we’ll be attending this year.

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    All About Mushrooms

    Mushrooms are nature’s hidden treasure: always in season and grown year-round. Learn more about the magnificent mushroom – from nutritional benefits to umami – we shed some light on this versatile superfood.

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    “We worked with Mountain Meadow Mushrooms, a local family-owned farm in Escondido, CA, to feature their crimini mushrooms on our salad bars. They grow and cut mushrooms on site and we were able to film the fascinating process of growing mushrooms so our students could learn about them and then try them on their salads. It was really cool!”
    Kathryn SpencerSDUSD Farm to School Coordinator
    “We were excited to see mushrooms on our Missouri commodity open order list. It’s always fun to experiment with new vegetables and to educate kids about them. We introduced the mushrooms in a Taste Test Tuesday recipe for marinated vegetables and are working on an egg Florentine soufflé using USDA eggs, mushrooms, spinach and cheese. We are looking forward to incorporating mushrooms into more recipes that our students enjoy. ”
    Carmen FischerDirector of Child Nutrition Services & Warehouse / Rockwood School District
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    Thank you, Mushrooms in Schools, for your commitment to promoting healthy and sustainable food choices and supporting our school community. Let’s continue to work together to make a positive impact on children’s health and nutrition!
    Monica JacksonJackson Child Care
    Noblesville Schools in Indiana (near Indianapolis) has a new mushroom recipe featured on the Elementary menus this semester! Ravioli Florentine. We had ravioli w/ red sauce on the menu 1st semester and decided to give it a makeover using alfredo sauce, spinach, and mushrooms! Everyone was skeptical at first, but it is actually turning out to be a huge hit and the talk of the town! We sampled at one school first before menuing and the kids were asking for 2nds and 3rds!
    Noblesville School Nutrition Department

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