Salad Bars + School Cafeterias =

Healthy Fruits and Vegetables for our Kids!

If you live in Arizona, Southern California, Las Vegas, or Hawaii: Take the day off from cooking this Sunday, September 9th. Instead of slaving over a hot stove, head on over to your local Whole Foods Market to support “Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools.”

For every pound purchased at its salad and hot food bars, Whole Foods Market will donate $1 towards getting salad bars into our local schools!

Supporting salad bars in schools is a sure-fire way to help combat childhood obesity. Giving kids healthy food to eat is a critical part of slowing the obesity epidemic, and it’s something First Lady Michelle Obama has made a cornerstone of her Let’s Move initiative.  Whole Foods Whole Kids Foundation supports the First Lady with their Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools website.

Please allow me to share with you exactly what it is that makes this post special. For the three-year life of this blog, I’ve been asked numerous times to help “sell” or “sponsor” a specific food, a cookbook, a product, or an event … and in turn to be compensated in one form or another. I have said no to each and every request – until now. When Whole Foods contacted me about this event, I didn’t think twice about saying yes. This is something I believe in. This is something that is important to all of us and I am honored to help get the word out.

We talk about our sincere concern over childhood obesity and our desire to do something to get our nation’s children eating healthy. It’s time to put your money where your mouth is. This is an easy and tasty way to help make a difference.  The “Eat Your Greens to Give Some Green” donation day put on by the Whole Kids Foundation is a simple and easy way for us to do something. I hope to see you at the salad bar this Sunday!

You’ll find me at the Paradise Valley store at Tatum and Shea!

{Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for the Whole Foods Foundation.}