Everyone is welcome …
… to try a new healthy snack, to do another food demo, to distribute nutrition tips, to connect corner store owners with locally grown food at places like NJHCN’s City Green, to applaud store owners...
View ArticleAccomplishments and Those Still to Come…
Montclair Shop Healthy (MSH) Accomplishments: One new store added to the already five participating stores Retention of two participating stores after challenges caused by management turnover and...
View ArticleGrateful for Healthy Food Access Community
Montclair Shop Healthy of the Township of Montclair’s Health Department is grateful for all of its NJHCN partners, its funder, Partners for Health Foundation, and… Its returning, participating stores:...
View ArticleHealthy Corner Store Classics: Young Customers & Old Montclair Store Care...
The Thanksgiving food demo on November 24 at Mission Mini was another classic healthy corner store success! Young neighborhood residents like Tootie Boatwright sampled apples, bananas and owner Luz’s...
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Encourage, Suggest, Advocate!
One corner store that used to stock unhealthy items in its designated “healthy foods” rack now uses the rack consistently to display fruit for sale. Baked chips with 80% reduced fat are now sold in two...
View ArticleHealthy Food First for All!
Another successful “healthy food first” sampling took place at the long-running and much loved Jack’s on North Fullerton Avenue, which is Montclair Shop Healthy’s seventh participating store. The...
View ArticleMore Funding for Montclair Shop Healthy
Montclair Shop Healthy has received a $1,500.00 grant from the New Jersey Healthy Corner Initiative, a partnership of The Food Trust, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the New Jersey Partnership for...
View ArticleMission Mini Market Makeover
Thanks to the grant from the New Jersey Healthy Corner Store Initiative, a partnership of The Food Trust, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids, the makeover...
View ArticleMontclair Shop Healthy at the Gallery Walk
Ivana Drazin Ivelja, Project Consultant, took a stand for Montclair Shop Healthy at the Gallery Walk on September 21, 2017 at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Sue Portuese, Health Director for the...
View ArticleOne More Time for Neighborhood Health!
Luz Guillen, owner of Mission Mini, prepared a delicious three bean salad with corn and peppers for her store’s November 3 healthy food sampling event. Along with hummus, baked chips, and locally...
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