It is on. The first of three Snackin’ Fresh Youth Leadership special events is finally here!!! Fairhill Elementary will have a healthy snack scavenger (Yes I know you are all cheering for this momentous occasion). This event involves 4th-8th grade students of Fairhill Elementary. Your school’s Snackin’ Fresh Crew has searched for Healthy snacks in the corner stores near Fairhill Elementary, they have created riddles for those Snacks, all you have to do is find them. Easy as that! Please participate you can win a BIG prize.
Snackin’ Fresh Healthy Snack Standards:
-Single Serving Item
-Less than 200 calories
-Less than 7 grams of total fat

Good Luck!!

Snackin’ Fresh Blog Scavenger Hunt Part 2. Once again these hunts are not difficult, just follow the clues I leave in this blog entry and you will have a nice PRIZE. I will ask you about it first thing at the meeting so be ready.

Here we go!

On www.snackinfresh.org home page click on the “about us” link. In that section there is the title “Change Through Youth”.

I would like for you to tell me how Snackin Fresh is creating this change through youth. That is all no more, no less.

-Greg

After so many weeks of being busy bodies, the leadership crews had a relaxing activity “Poster Creation.” The students created posters for their special project as they munched on the sweetest amazing snack there is….GRAPES. The only thing missing from this leadership meeting was a cool summer breeze.
Check out these students working on their poster, if you tell Mr. Greg who they are at the next meeting you just may win a prize.

The busy week is over but wow! First I would like to thank the students who checked the blog and answered my riddles. As promised, this weeks blog riddle would be simple, look at the student’s pictures I post and when you see me in your Snackin Fresh meeting tell me who the student is. If the student student isn’t in your group just say so.

After the Seeding comes the Watering

Back to the week that was.

Between YES trainings and gardening the Snackin’ Fresh members were extremely busy. During the YES “How to Advertise Your Product” training, students learned the 4 P’s (Product, Price, Place and Promotion) and how to relate them to the garden business. The group was instructed to use catchy slogans in order to promote the product. Snackin’ Fresh members thought “Eat Your Veggies – Have Less Weggies” was an excellent promotion slogan for the garden business.
I think the slogan is catchy, it would definitely help sell eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash, peas, peppers, and all of the other vegetables we have planted so far.

Eat More Veggies – Have Less Wedgies
-Greg
P.S. do not post the name of the student who is shown above, tell me when you see me at the next Snackin Fresh Meeting.

Next week, Snackin’ Fresh members will be in the garden once again, so leave the Grammy outfits home. Gardening will involve dirt and may include mess so Snackin’ Fresh members PLEEEEAASE LEAVE YOUR NICE UNIFORMS AT HOME. And for the students who can’t plant because as you say, “Mr. Greg I just got my nails done,” don’t worry, we will have gardening gloves ready .

In addition to gardening the Snackin’ Fresh students will also take part in t

This week I was at Arizona State University bragging to college students about the awesome work the Snackin’ Fresh Youth Leaders are doing. They really enjoyed the Water Wall of Fame idea (Which is coming back this year at Welsh Elementary). They thought it was cool that the Snackin’ Fresh leaders are growing produce to sell to corner store owners. Just goes to show that the Snackin’ Fresh Youth are awesome, even college students think you guys are great! Keep it up.

Greg

Snackin’ Fresh members showed off their green thumb this week. But they turned brown after we distributed the soil for our seeds HAHAHAH! (I feel like I’m the only one that’s going to laugh at that. Was that a corny joke? Please forgive me, I tried)

This week’s meetings were really fun, we planted the seeds for our summer garden and the Snackin’ Fresh Leaders showed off their knowledge of planting. Leaders from last year were a big help to planter newbies like myself. I was happy to see that the older Snackin’ Fresh members remembered the lessons from last year. Some students instructed the group on how far to make a hole for the seeds, and other students instructed the group on the best watering techniques.

We planted seeds for cucumbers, jalapenos, yellow squash, kale, tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini, basil, and more. We hope to have a great garden season this year so look out for our veggies in a corner store near you!

Last week I told all Snackin’ Fresh members that I would post a question on the blog post. The question will be easy and whoever answers it correctly will receive a prize, all you have to do is ANSWER IT. In order to ANSWER it you have to READ it. I will make a flow chart so you can see the easy process:
1. READ THE BLOG POST -> 2. ANSWER THE QUESTION CORRECTLY-> 3. WIN THE PRIZE
This process will go on for the next couple of weeks, which means you guys will have a bunch of chances to win a prize!
So here we go… Are you ready for the question??? I feel like you guys are saying “HURRY UP MR. GREG!!”
Ok ok I’m sorry.
Question:
On SnackinFresh.org in the “MAPS” section, WHAT DOES THE ICON THAT LOOKS LIKE A HOUSE REPRESENT?
This will be the first question I ask at our next meeting, until then start searching so you can get your prize!!

Enjoy the weekend
-Greg