Guest Blogger: Lydia from Sartell High School
Today, I have a great guest post by Lydia Dullinger, a senior at Sartell High School in Sartell, Minnesota. On January 18th, 2012, BLEND (Better Living Exercise and Nutrition Daily) launched the NuVal® Nutritional Scoring System in the a la carte lines and vending machines at Sartell-St. Stephen Schools. This groundbreaking project will assist students and faculty to make healthier food choices on a daily basis. Lydia is blogging about her experiences with NuVal® in schools. Lydia is a great blogger – and wait until you see these amazing youtube videos that the AV Club is putting together. It’s so amazing to see these high school students all excited about NuVal and healthy foods. So, without further ado, here’s Lydia!
NuVal is here!!! At 8:30 Wednesday morning, members of Student Council gathered in front of the doors in the school armed with balloons, apples, and stickers.
Our mission? To greet our peers NuVal-style! Incoming students were surprised and pretty jacked about getting free things, if not a little overwhelmed! Everyone was so into NuVal, the enthusiasm was infectious! Watch my YouTube video NuVal Kickoff Day!! Ryan (a freshmen) particularly impressed me by dressing up in the Coborns Moo Bell costume and dancing around.
By mid-morning the stickers had evolved into a trading-card/black market currency with the strawberry stickers representing something close to the 100 dollar bill. I also saw a sticker ninja (watch for it on the video)!
I think the biggest stir NuVal has made is with the Doritos poster. Did you know Doritos are a 23? That’s 16 more than Cheetos and 10 more than Chex Mix!! Everybody is stunned and amazed by that one! Also, a lot of people picked oranges today because they were 100. Poor applesauce.
Somebody pointed out today that I have to alter a comment I made in my first post about a value of 0 not being food! I realized today water must have a value of 0! But water isn’t actually a food so I’m still a little foggy on that one. I digress.
The Audio and Video production class made some pretty classic commercials for the occasion, and I will be posting one with every blog until I run out of them. Every commercial features a different “high school stereotype” and I think they’re hilarious. To start it off, enjoy this NuVal commercial “The Jock” brought to you by Mr. Schulte’s Audio and Video Production class!
Enjoy and keep reading!!
It’s Melissa again. You can read more of Lydia’s blog (she posts every Wednesday) on the Blend website here. She has more great posts. The Sartell story is worth following!
BREAKING NEWS
NuVal was featured on Ameria Now, ,” the news magazine show with Bill Rancic (the first winner of “The Apprentice”) and Leeza Gibbons (from Entertainment Tonight/Extra). So cool to see Bill and Leeza talking about NuVal! (I was a huge Bill fan when he won that first Apprentice!) You can see this great video here!
Posted by: Melissa 5 comments
Posted in: Guest Bloggers
on Feb 2nd, 2012 at 9:09 am
Great job Lydia, Sartell Schools, and BLEND!
on Feb 2nd, 2012 at 10:36 am
This is so cool! Glad to see a school who is helping there students make a change for a healthier lifestyle.
on Feb 2nd, 2012 at 12:31 pm
WOW! this is all great stuff! Congratulations Lydia! I love your blogs and what great videos! The enthusiasm for NUVAL is infectious!!
on Feb 2nd, 2012 at 3:02 pm
So impressed by the Sartell School District and BLEND – taking such a proactive stance in improving childhood nutrition. Way to go!
on Feb 2nd, 2012 at 9:10 pm
I wish all schools took a stand to teach about nutrition. Sadly, its not deemed important. Sadly its beginning to seem like gym, music, art and recess isn’t either. O’clock but having 2 snacks(more like meals for what parents pack them) is….end of rant