Montana Cook Fresh Leadership Institute

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The Montana Cook Fresh Initiative is a comprehensive (one-year) training program to help schools serve high-quality meals through cooking from scratch that appeal to Montana students. This program builds the knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy of all school food service staff from management to front line staff through professional development and technical assistance.

Montana Team Nutrition offers a weeklong professional development workshop for directors, managers, and head cooks to enhance school food service management and culinary skills. Sharpen your knowledge and skills on a variety of management topics from procurement through service. Topics include food production and culinary skills, scratch cooking utilizing USDA foods and local foods, merchandizing, behavioral cues, farm to school, school wellness policy, and many more.Visit the MCFI Registration link belowfor a detailed agendaand more information about our upcoming institute.

Access the Montana Cook Fresh Initiative curriculum here.

Participant Feedback

"It was a great learning experience and helped me to better plan for the next year."

"[The Institute] was more acessible for me and my family, [I] could step away if needed for a few seconds."

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