PROMOTE POWER LUNCH
- One third of meals are eaten at work. Make that meal count by eating a nutritious lunch.
- Hold a healthy lunch challenge in your workplace, encouraging employees to make their lunches more nutritious and balanced.
- A healthy diet helps prevent chronic diseases including diabetes, stroke, and cancer.
BE THE FIRST!
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ACTION STEPS
Provide the Resources
• Ensure healthy meals are provided by the cafeteria, or find healthy meal options from nearby businesses.
• Offer nutritious recipes that can be made at home and brought to work: Put posters with easy-to-make lunch ideas in the break room.
• Ensure there is enough refrigerator space for homemade lunches.
• Remind employees that bringing lunch to work saves money.
Organize a Competition
- Recruit one or two employees to judge lunches based on nutritional value, ease of preparation, and low cost.
- Determine how the competition will be judged. Will lunches be judged on creativity, nutritional value, or taste?
- Hold the competition on National Healthy Lunch Day.
Spread the Word
- Make sure people know about the challenge.
- Advertise using e-mail and posters.
- Encourage participation from all employees.
Create Incentives
- Provide prizes for the winner of the healthy lunch challenge (e.g., lunch boxes, reusable containers, icepacks, or coupons to a local farmer’s market).
- Hold a healthy food luncheon at the conclusion of the challenge.
- Share the recipes and shopping lists of the competition winners throughout the office.
MORE RESOURCES
Monthly Health Challenge: Eat a Healthy Lunch!
Wellness Challenge: Get Your Plate in Shape!
Wellness Challenge: Get Your Plate in Shape!