Nutrition Social Marketing Ideas for Employers

1. Ask vending machine company to add healthy foods.
2. Use vending machine commissions to help fund wellness programs.
3. Work with vending machine company and cafeteria to post calories, nutrient contents and amounts on vending machines, lunchroom tables, etc.
4. Place incentive stickers on low-fat items in vending machines and on healthy choice selections in cafeteria.
5. Develop a cookbook of employees’ low-fat recipes, exchange recipes and feature a healthy employee recipe periodically on the cafeteria menu.
6. Hold recipe contests.
7. Celebrate “free fruit day” by giving apples away.
8. Have a homegrown fruit and vegetable exchange.
9. Request that cafeteria vendors serve low-fat, low cholesterol, nutritious foods.
10. Encourage “Fruit and Vegetable Day” in the cafeteria.
11. Identify one heart-healthy snack idea daily in the cafeteria.
12. Add healthy snacks to snack cart (i.e., fruit, granola bars).
13. Request that cafeteria foods be made from one percent milk instead of whole milk.
14. Hold low-fat cooking demonstrations in cafeteria.
15. Suggest that employees keep a list of healthy, low-fat snacks in their cars.
16. Encourage employees to bring yogurt, fruits and fat-free toppings to work.
17. Change a donut break to a bagel and low-fat topping break at meetings. Plan company function with heart-healthy eating choices in mind.
18. Conduct support group for weight management. Sponsor company weight-reduction programs.
19. Offer information on packing healthy brown-bag lunches.
20. Hold an employee luncheon. Bring a healthy lunch and share the recipe.
21. Encourage employees to bring crock pots of heart-healthy soup and share with others.
22. Promote “eat your greens” on St. Patrick’s Day.
23. Share mocktail (non-alcoholic beverages) recipes with fruit and vegetable juices as one of the main ingredients.
24. Offer a kitchen area accessible to all employees.
25. Charge reasonable prices for healthy snacks (i.e., fresh fruit, yogurt), meals and salad bars.
26. Put up Food Pyramid charts in break room/cafeteria areas.
27. Have office water coolers readily available.
28. Offer nutrition videos, books and brochures that can be borrowed and exchanged among employees.

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