Healthy Eating Resources

This page contains various resources to help support, encourage, and facilitate healthy eating in worksites.

Food Service Guideline

• Food Service Guidelines- Easy Access To Healthy Foods

This resource provides a brief overview of what are the Food Service Guidelines for Federal Facilities.

• Food Service Guidelines for Federal Facilities: A Model for Your State or Community

This resource provides comprehensive information about Food Service Guidelines (FSGs) for Federal Facilities, including their intended goals, various applications, and the benefits that result from successfully implementing these guidelines.

• Healthy Food Service Guidelines: An Impactful Strategy for Promoting Health In Institutions

This document discusses the value of implementing food service guidelines for various public and private institutions in the United States, such as schools, universities, healthcare facilities, shelters, correctional facilities, and agencies providing free meals to low-income individuals.

• Put Food Service Guidelines into Organizational Policies and Food Vendor Contracts

This resource provides sample language for vendor contracts, purchasing agreements, or organizational policies related to the CDC's Food Service Guidelines Policy Wheel.

Toolkits

The toolkits provided in this section are invaluable resources designed to assist in the adoption of healthy eating strategies within a workplace setting. They offer valuable guidance on the establishment of policies for vending operations, cafes/cafeterias, and other relevant areas within worksites. These toolkits can be effectively utilized by food service managers, individuals with similar roles, or integrated into a comprehensive worksite wellness program. Additionally, these resources provide essential guidance on the implementation of food service guidelines within worksites, which can have a positive impact on the dietary choices and overall health of individuals who access food from worksites or public facilities.

• Food Service Guidelines Implementation Toolkit

This resource provides a framework for implementing food service guidelines that can positively influence the diets and health of individuals accessing food from worksites or public facilities.

• California Fit Business Kit

The California Fit Business Kit is a suite of ten tools designed to increase access to fruits and vegetables and physical activity during the workday.

• Kaiser Permanente Healthy Eating at Work Food Policy Toolkit

This toolkit offers tips and resources to help you build a food policy that empowers employees to eat healthier.

Café/Cafeteria

• Behavioral Design Strategies for Food- Venues: Promoting Healthy Food Choices

This resource gives you different strategies that are based on certain design rules found in the Food Service Guidelines for Federal Facilities. These design rules are split into six categories: Placement and Layout, Product Innovations and Defaults, Pricing and Promotion, Tableware, Information, and Organizational Policy. Each category has its own set of strategies. This is a good resource to learn how to make food service areas in federal facilities better and more appealing, this resource will help you with practical ideas and examples.

Vending

• Health and Sustainability Guidelines for Federal Concessions and Vending Operations

This resource has specific food, nutrition, and sustainability guidelines which can apply to apply to all food service concession operations and vending machines.

• Vendor Fact Sheet: Why Offer Healthier Options?

This resource discusses how various entities, including state and local governments, hospitals, workplaces, and other institutions, are adopting healthier food options in their facilities and programs. The document provides several reasons why businesses could benefit from providing healthier options.

• Fact Sheet: Financial Implications of Healthy Vending

This resource provides evidence that offering healthier options in vending machines and food service settings can lead to positive financial outcomes for businesses.

• Healthier Vending Machine Initiatives in State Facilities (pdf)

This document is for state public health practitioners and others seeking to increase healthy options in state agency vending machines. It describes actions taken, key considerations and lessons learned by state health departments already implementing healthy vending machine initiatives.

• Making Change: Healthier Vending Guide

This resource explores the necessary steps for implementing healthy vending machine policies within municipalities. It aims to provide guidance on how to establish such policies effectively.

• Behavioral Design Strategies for Vending Machine Operations: Promoting Healthy Food Choices

This resource covers aspects like arranging and organizing food, using innovative products to encourage healthier choices, utilizing price incentives to highlight healthy options, promoting healthier foods through information, and adopting practices and policies that align with food service guidelines. These strategies aim to create a better and healthier food experience for people.

Meetings and Events

• 9 Hacks to a Healthier Meeting or Conference

Here are 9 tips to make your next meeting a healthy one.

• Tips For Offering Healthier Options and Physical Activity at Workplace Meetings and Events

This resource provides recommendations to promote healthier food and beverage choices at worksite meetings and events. It also offers ideas on incorporating physical activity opportunities for employees throughout their workday.

• Healthy Meeting Toolkit

This toolkit is for meeting and conference organizers, applicable to various entities such as governments, non-profits, businesses, and hotels. It offers many customizable recommendations and strategies to implement in meetings with a focus on nutrition, physical activity, tobacco-free initiatives, and sustainability.