Strategies

Strategy 1:
Improve the availability and access of affordable healthier foods and beverages, including fruits, vegetables and water, in local retail venues in underserved areas.

Strategy 2:
Ensure access to and promote healthful foods, including fruits, vegetables and water, while limiting access to sugar-sweetened beverages, in worksite settings (foodservice, cafeteria, vending machines, meetings, conferences, and events).

Strategy 3:
Ensure that policies at childcare facilities and schools (PreK-12) promote healthier foods and beverages, with an emphasis on fruits, vegetables and water.

Strategy 4:
Expand curriculum-based strategies and activities that support nutrition standards (including an emphasis on fruits and vegetables and healthy beverages/water) in childcare facilities and schools (PreK-12).

Strategy 5:
Ensure that children in schools and childcare facilities have affordable, appealing healthy choices in foods and beverages offered outside of the child nutrition program.

Click here for the complete list of Healthy Eating strategies and activities from the 2011-2016 Nebraska Physical Activity and Nutrition State Plan.