Middle Tennessee Childhood Hunger Day -

October 19th, 2005
Upper Murrell School    10:00 am to 1:00 pm
1200 2nd. Ave. South

The Mission Statement: “To educate and assist the family in understanding proper nutrition and to be the voice of the American Culinary Federation in its fight against childhood hunger.”

Every year in October, the ACF Chefs and Chapters have the opportunity to speak to the public about domestic childhood hunger. Chapter activities and the National efforts have been tremendously successful in raising awareness of childhood hunger issues throughout the U.S.

THE PYRAMID POWER FOODSHOW is 2005's presentation of the Middle Tennessee Chapter. Chairman Willie Jemison and his committee targeted several schools to invade with our foodshow format. We are using the six stations set-up to explain the new approach to the nutritional pyramid.

Thank You to the National Guard for their Drug Awareness Program. The display was popular with the kids.	Thanks to the American Diabetes Council for their booth on Diabetes and Nutrition	The Lentz Metro Public Health Center - was there to support nutrition, sanitation, protection from disease and every aspect of thge Pyramid
The booth on grains was a very popular destination- cereals and popcorn crunch.	We had lots of help over at the grains booth.	Vanderbilt Hospital and the Nursing School had a registered Dietician to help our show.
The fruits stand did a little better than the vegetable stand, but when you got to compete with chicken nuggets, its tough	The Vegetable booth was just a bit lonely - I mean come on - kids and vegetables don't mix.	See, we put the Pyramid next to the Crunch and Munch -
Purity Dairy had the distinction of being the final booth on the tour - the kids loved the Milk, OJ and the Ice Cream		This is Willie, giving his spiel and facilitating the show.
Nashville General Hospital at MeHarry opened a booth on nutrition and Health Care.	The Meat and Protein Booth was a real treat - who can resist chick nuggets

Starting with registration at 10:00 a.m., students received badges and bags of resources. Each student had the opportunity to walk around and visit each vendor booth and collect information about that particular vendor and received FREE giveaways. There were over 15 vendor booths set up. There were 70 Upper Murrell Students that participated—this represented the entire student body. The theme for this year was “The Power of the Pyramid.” This event introduced healthy eating habits, proper snacking and the NEW food guide pyramid to the youth. There were several dieticians from area hospitals who spoke about proper nutrition for young people. With the recent spotlight on obesity in our youth today, this and other booths have become more important for the education of proper eating habit. Also on hand were ACF Chefs from the Nashville area who manned booths that represented the NEW food guide pyramid. The big hit was the national guard’s drug prevention booth. This booth informed the youth about the dangers of drugs and the addictive properties.

A host of national and local vendors donated their time to this event. The national vendors included: Uncle Ben’s, Kraft foods, Purity Dairy and Pillsbury. The local vendors included: Freshpoint Overton, TW Wilsion and Sons, Food Sales of Tennessee and the Farmers Market. The metropolitan Lentz Public Health Department provided information on safety and sanitation as well as food born bacteria and other related issues.

Many Thanks go to the wonderful corporate sponsors named above plus MeHarry General Hospital, Vanderbilt University Hospital, The National Guard and of course all the volunteers from the Middle Tennessee Chapter.

Willie Jemison - Chairman             Cathy Hoormann        Anna Hicks      Dave Lorance       Elaine Parker
Ruth Sheflin        Michael Adams        Julio Orantes      Nancy Campbell      Michael Osborne      Don Sivley
and everyone else we may have neglected to name.