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• Create a "nutrition quiz corner" with a nutrition question every day for the entire month of March. Students complete an answer form and place it in a box, which is emptied daily. You may award a daily prize, or enter the name of every contestant who answered correctly in a weekly prize drawing. Prizes could be NNM promotional items.
  
• Conduct a "Fear Factor"-type event. Provide unusual vegetables and fruits cut into bite-size pieces. Offer an opportunity to taste and guess the food.
  
• Contact the local library and schedule a story time, movie, nutrition program or a poster/coloring contest for kids.
  
• Ask children to begin carefully saving empty food product boxes. Spend some time reading labels and comparing calories, fat, sugar content, vitamins, etc. Expand this into a menu-planning opportunity, with children dividing into teams. See which group can plan the healthiest meal. As a math exercise, add up the calories from various products.
  
• Celebrate a "Salute to the Troops." Invite local soldiers and veterans to lunch. Serve Hero Sandwiches, Patriotic Potato Chips, All-American Apple and Military Milk.
  
• Sponsor a pentathlon with entry fee being five cans of food. Contestants will engage in a tug-of-war, running an obstacle course, push-ups, sit-ups, biking, or whatever activities can be accommodated at the location.
  
• Have an ethnic food night, i.e., Asian cuisine, Mediterranean, French, Cajun, etc. This may be done by inviting local restaurants to participate, or have your own organization provide the food.

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