Welcome our very first district in Wisconsin — Oregon School District! 🍎🧡 “Our goal is to offer the healthiest food options for our students and model healthy habits that will last a lifetime. Eat Real is the model for school meals and we are thrilled to be partnering together.” - Amanda Bienlein, Director of Nutrition and Food Service The state of Wisconsin already has deep roots in farm to school practices. We are so excited to build on this work!
Eat Real Certified
Non-profit Organizations
San Francisco, California 8,972 followers
Every child deserves a healthy, delicious future on a livable planet. Now serving over 1M students!
About us
Eat Real is the only national doctor-led, foodservice-approved nonprofit on a mission to put real food on the table—at school, at home, and in local and national policy. We believe every child deserves a healthy, delicious future on a livable planet, and public school cafeterias are the most impactful solution to solving America’s children’s health crisis. Through our award-winning K-12 certification program, we give foodservice leaders the framework and support they need to make school menus delicious, nutritious, and responsibly sourced. Together with a community of foodservice professionals, doctors, food advocates, chefs, and parents, we raise awareness about the power and urgency of serving real food at every meal. And from the cafeteria to the Capitol, we advocate for policies and standards that ensure every child has access to nourishing food. The cafeteria can change the future—for our kids, our communities, and our planet.
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https://www.eatreal.org
External link for Eat Real Certified
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2012
- Specialties
- Nutrition, Education, Sustainability, Childhood Health, School Food, and Advocacy
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HIRING! 👋 🍎 Position: Social Media and Content Specialist 🍎 Location: Remote (within U.S.) 🍎 Job Type: Full-time Our marketing team is seeking a citizen of the internet! Our ideal candidate is a creative wizard with skills in graphic design, video editing, copywriting, and more. If you believe it should be fun to change the world, this might be the job for you. Come tackle the algorithm with us. Learn more and apply here 👉 https://lnkd.in/geEtAY9d
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If you want to make a difference, you have to show up to the places where change is being made. We want to support school food heroes in making their menus more delicious and nutritious — so we show up to conferences across the country. We want to change the narrative around school food — so we show up to school cafeterias (and show off the great work we see). We believe every child deserves access to food that nourishes, not harms — so we show up to Washington D.C. Our team has been everywhere! Doing everything! Yes, sometimes, all at once! 😉 👇 From California to Minnesota to Georgia, we show up because we want every child to have a healthier future. Sometimes, change is made on the big stages. But it’s also made in the small conversations. Here’s to many more meaningful conversations this year! #EatRealWithUs
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Real food at real schools! 👇 ✅ Delicious ✅ Nutritious ✅ Kid-approved If you care about what kids are eating, pull up a chair and eat real with us. https://eatreal.org/
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Join us in celebrating School Lunch Hero Day! 🍎💪 School food professionals across the country are tasked with a very important job – feeding our nation's kids. Often, this work is done with tight budgets, limited resources, and a ton of pressure. Endless thank yous and gratitude to the people showing up every day to feed the next generation. And special shoutout to Kat Soltanmorad, RDN at Tahoe Truckee Unified School District for completing her program's final report meeting. 👀 #SchoolLunchHeroDay
There’s no better way to start School Lunch Hero Day than with one of the best in the country. Kat Soltanmorad, RDN at Tahoe Truckee Unified School District is the kind of leader who reminds you what’s possible when someone truly cares about what ends up on a child’s plate. This morning marked her final Eat Real Certified report meeting. Big news coming soon. 💫 Today is about something bigger. It’s about the school food leaders across the country who show up every day to do an incredibly hard job, often with limited resources, tight budgets, and a lot of pressure, and still find a way to serve meals that nourish kids. These are the people quietly shaping the health of the next generation. They don’t always get the spotlight. But they should. Today, we celebrate you. Happy School Lunch Hero Day to the ones doing the real work. 🧡 #SchoolLunchHeroDay #SchoolLunch
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HIRING! 🍎 Position: Program Manager 🍎 Location: Remote (within U.S.) 🍎 Job Type: Full-time As a PM for our team, you will work directly with school districts as they move through the Eat Real certification process. Our Program Managers are school food cheerleaders — enthusiastic, driven, and deeply invested in the success of their foodservice partners. You’ll be the face of Eat Real for district partners, bringing clear communication, strategic thinking, and data-driven creativity to help us meet the moment. If you believe it should be fun to change the world, this might be the job for you. Learn more & apply here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gEjir-ya
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Fresh episode of American Dish out today! Helena Bottemiller Evich talks to Nora LaTorre, CEO of Eat Real Certified, about how school meals can be a major lever for kids’ health. Listen/watch wherever you get your podcasts! 🍴
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Major fan girl moment. 🤩 I’ve long believed Helena Bottemiller Evich’s Food Fix newsletter is one of the most important spaces for food policy on the internet, so getting to join her as the first guest on the American Dish podcast was a real honor. 30 million kids eat school meals every day. That makes school cafeterias one of the most powerful forces shaping kids’ health in this country. 💪 We talked about why school meals are one of the biggest levers we have, and what it actually takes to change them. I’m thankful for every opportunity to share the incredible change our school food service partners are driving every day. We covered: • What’s really happening in school cafeterias today • Why ultra-processed food became the norm • What it looks like to transition to real, fresh meals at scale • And why this is about systems, not individual choices This is solvable. We’re seeing it firsthand at Eat Real Certified with districts across the country proving that better food can work within real budgets and real constraints. Give it a listen and let me know what resonated. 💭
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We believe the fastest, most scalable solution to America's children's health crisis is already in our communities — the school cafeteria. Since 2019, we’ve been working with school food heroes across the country to transform their menus to be delicious, nutritious, and responsibly sourced. Our work has always been about inviting everyone to the table — no matter where they are in their real food journey. So far, we’ve reached over 1 MILLION students across 21 states with our doctor-led, science-backed, foodservice-approved certification program. But there’s still more room at our table. "Eat real with us" is a call to join a movement that's already working. Bring your school district. Bring your community. Bring your resources. Pull up a chair. Feeding kids and keeping them healthy is something we should all agree on. Every kid in every zip code deserves a nourishing school meal. Come join us! 💗 eatreal.org
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Welcome, Cobb County School District in Georgia! 👏🚀🎉 The path to Eat Real Certification starts now. “This partnership allows us to continue raising the bar, ensuring our students not only have access to food—but to food that supports their health, learning, and long-term wellbeing.” - Emily Hanlin MBA,RD,LD,SNS, Executive Director of Food and Nutrition Services at Cobb County Cobb County is delivering high-quality, student-centered meals that reflect student feedback, diverse preferences, and evolving tastes. We are thrilled to build off this work, investing in school food systems transformation for over 100,000 students across 110 schools. ‼️ This district is one of our very first in Georgia, and we are continuing to expand across the state. Interested in bringing healthier school meals to students in Georgia? Contact us at https://lnkd.in/gEFqHiXK