K-12 for Students

Meatless Monday is a global movement designed to help people around the world eat more fruits, vegetables, and plant-based foods—like beans, whole grains, and nuts. Cutting out meat one day per week is not only good for your health and the health of the planet, but it’s also a great way to try new ingredients and dishes that you may otherwise have overlooked. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or faculty member, we have everything you need to start a Meatless Monday program in your school cafeteria or classroom.

Kid eating broccoli

How to get started:

  1. Understand the benefits: Learn how Meatless Monday helps support your health and the environment by reviewing our benefits fact sheet and our K-12 one-pager.
  2. Get faculty support: Work with a teacher, faculty member, or foodservice team member to see how you can start a Meatless Monday program or pilot in your classroom or cafeteria. Use our sample outreach letter, or create your own.
  3. Raise awareness: Review our resource library to find social media assets, newsletter copy, and a sample launch email to help you spread the word about your program or event. Explore our collection of activities and worksheets, review sample lesson plans and foodservice tools, or use our Get Started with Meatless Monday 12-week campaign. 
  4. Take part in Meatless Monday: Create groups, partner with clubs, set up events, review recipes for cooking at home, or host a meatless tasting in your cafeteria. See how other students launched Meatless Monday in their schools.
  5. Evaluate: See how fellow classmates feel about Meatless Monday and plant-based eating with a pre and post survey.