QC Vision statement
Just feeding children is not enough to ensure they are getting all they deserve in regards to nutrition. Parents, professionals in schools, day care centers, and child development centers and providers
should take a bigger role in encouraging healthy eating.
Childhood nutrition is a rather complicated discipline and requires more than just setting food in front of children, as is evidenced by the current state of the obesity problem among our youth. Some dietitians and health care providers consider our current state of obesity to be a pandemic. We created this problem through a long list of misguided attempts at providing nutritional kids' lunches from our general lack of education about nutrition. So how do we turn this around, and go from just feeding our kids to getting them to eat healthy meals as a habit? The answer is through awareness, education and action on our parts to do something about it.
At Quality Catering for Kids, we believe in providing children with the most nutritious catered hot lunches. Our chidren's hot lunch menus are overseen by an on-staff registered Dietetic Technician, thus providing lunch catering strictly targeted toward children and their optimal health.
Our second important goal is to educate children about why and how to select foods that provide them with the best nutritional value. Whether it's giving them fun lesson plans with our superheroes, Ben Broccoli or Carol Carrot, or helping them set up a class garden project to teach them where good food is grown, we educate them to make good choices early on in order to fend off the messages junk food advertisers throw at them on a daily basis.
At Quality Catering, providing healthy hot school lunches and sound nutritional education is why we are the leading provider of child care center and private school catering services in northern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin!