Celebrate and highlight healthy options already offered at your festival. Collaborate with food vendors to provide a diverse variety of healthy food choices ~ assuring items are prepared trans-fat free, served in biodegradable containers and represent cross-cultural cuisine.
- Require food vendors to develop menus that include at least one “healthy option” at a competitive price.
- Feature healthy menu items and vendors in event marketing, brochure, website, and social media.
- Provide training to health ambassadors and other volunteers in promoting healthier eating.
- Promote healthy strategies to the media.
- Avoid marketing that promotes unhealthy choices and activities.
- Add vendors’ healthy food items to event maps and guides.
- Partner with local culinary organizations and dietitians to offer food vendor trainings and consultations on how to create healthy menus.
- Invite professional chefs and young people to judge for a variety of taste preferences.
- Offer healthy cooking demonstrations. Restaurants, restaurant supply stores, and chefs will eat up the attention.
- Create prominent eye-catching signage for healthy food options.
- Offer reduced-portion sizes for “tasty treats” (fair favorite) menu items.
- It may be easier than you think to find corporate sponsors eager to have their names and logos promoting “healthy” in an innovative way.