Fremont students crunch their way to healthy eating with local farm produce

AUSD Food and Nutritional Services partnered with Fremont School to celebrate California Crunch week –- a statewide event to celebrate the abundance of fruits and vegetables grown in our state and support the local growers who supply the district’s farm-to-table produce.

Fremont School second graders joined schools statewide as they crunched bites of locally grown fruit and vegetables and learned that healthy eating can be fun and delicious! In addition to special guests from the district, the students also met a few Fruit & Veggie Friends: Crunchy Carrot, Snappy Peas, and Crispy

Apple. After a quick lesson, everyone participated in some physical activity by dancing "The Big Veggie Crunch" together.

The event ended with students' favorite part, crunching fruit and vegetable samples of carrots, snap peas, and apples...with just a little bit of ranch dressing on the side. The students enjoyed their healthy California-grown snacks. The second graders’ verdict: “Everything is yummy!”

Fremont second graders show their approval of the tasty locally grown fruits and vegetables they sampled during the 2022 California Crunch Week at the end of October.