3. Created the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge and Kids’ “State Dinner”
Next in line of the 6 ways Michelle Obama contributed to childhood nutrition is the challenge and “State Dinner” were created in 2012 to help promote childhood nutrition. Children, in collaboration with a parent, came up with a recipe that is healthy, tasty, and affordable. Entries were to represent the food groups shown on MyPlate and meet the USDA’s nutrition guidelines. One winner from each state was chosen and invited to the White House for the Kids’ “State Dinner” in celebration and to learn more information on healthy eating.
First Lady Michelle Obama hugs Braeden Mannering, the 2013 Kids’ State Dinner winner from Delaware, after he introduced her at the Kids’ State Dinner in the East Room of the White House, July 18, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)
