Food safety is the foundation of preparing and serving healthy, safe meals. The Story of Your Dinner kicks off in November and takes families through holiday meal planning. The campaign features recipes, videos, kids’ activities and food safety prep tips. Join us as we highlight the importance of food safety from the farm to the processor to the retailer to your dinner table!
The Story of Your Dinner campaign was made possible by the generous support from these sponsors:
The Story of Your Dinner offers you creative tools and messages to frame food safety throughout the chain of prevention — including the important role consumers play when preparing food at home.
Access The Story of Your Dinner consumer downloads, including delicious recipes, placemats and activity sheets for kids, a food safety for buffets flyer and more!
NEW! BAC Fighter Holiday Communications Toolkit
BAC Fighter News Media & Social Media Guide
We Fight BAC, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee is a program developed by BAC Fighter Jean Bridges. Her program started as a USDA Summer Food Service Program, providing a daily meal and snack for Memphis’ disadvantaged children.
Latch-key Kids Need the Core Four
During this work, Jean and her team became concerned that the latch-key kids they were serving did not have even the most basic information about safe food handling. These youngsters were often responsible for preparing meals for themselves and siblings and were at great risk of exposing the entire family to foodborne illnesses.
Jean saw a desperate need for basic home food safety education for these kids…
Food Safety Pros Collaborate
Jean’s program now includes a donated 26-foot mobile teaching RV, staffe
d with trained food safety ambassadors (volunteers from the Memphis and Shelby County Health Departments and the Tennessee Food Safety Task Force). She is considering having staff become ServSafe-certified instructors and proctors as a way to help fund the outreach.
It’s All About Food Safety
The objectives of the “We Fight BAC” program are to:
We Fight BAC www.wefightbac.com
USDA Food Safety Education http://1.usa.gov/1tEYVOi
Partnership for Food Safety Education www.fightbac.org
Free Downloads are a Key Resource
We Fight 
BAC uses many of the free downloads available on the Partnership for Food Safety Education’s Fight BAC website, as well as those from government food safety education sites. She finds these free materials a valuable addition to her outreach.
Go BAC Fighter Jean! BAC doesn’t have a chance against your energy!
Maintaining home refrigerators at 40°F or below is one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk of foodborne illness for pregnant women and elderly people.
The tools on this page and in the BAC Fighters and Retailers sections help you share this important message with the most vulnerable consumers in your community.
For more campaign resources, please visit the sections below:
Check it out! In this 30 second video, food safety expert Dr. Robert Gravani of Cornell University talks about one of the most effective ways that consumers can reduce their risk of foodborne illness. Educators and retailers are urged to use this video to connect with consumers on the topic of home food safety.
Soup kitchen set includes Fight BAC!® posters
The set for the Horizon Theatre’s Atlanta production of GRAND CONCOURSE by playwright Heidi Schreck takes place in a church soup kitchen in the Bronx.
BAC Fighter and former PFSE Board member, Missy Cody, was delighted to see these Fight BAC!® safe food handling posters hanging on the set when she attended the production in early April! We’re definitely for all actual and all theatrical kitchens posting Fight BAC!® food safety practices! Thank you for sharing this with BAC Fighters Missy!
