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Family
Living
The Family Nutrition Education Program (Food $ense) provides
hands-on nutrition lessons for youth and adults with limited resources.
Qualified groups and classrooms participate in activities that help establish healthy eating habits, develop basic preparation or selection skills, and include food safety, label reading, and meal planning. Class participants prepare tasty and nutritious
foods made with staples, low cost ingredients and/or foods available
at Food Banks to learn ways to stretch food stamps and to have food
to last more days of the months.
Facts about the Food $ense Program in Grays Harbor County:
- Program started in 1992 with funding from USDA-FNS based on local cost-share and in-kind match to support program
- Adults are served through partnerships with local service providers for food stamp eligible clientele.
- For school based program, grade-level appropriate curricula (for K-8) engage youth in learning with hands-on food preparation and tasting of nutritious and healthy recipes that can be replicated at home.
- Emphasis on following dietary guidelines and My Pyramid for age and activity level recommended amounts daily, including increased fruit, vegetable and bean consumption, reducing intake of added sugars, and balancing intake with activity level to maintain a healthy weight.
- In 2006-2007 school year, WSU trained nutrition educators will reach approximately 3,000 school age youth with from 7 to 20 classes in 5 school districts in Grays Harbor County.
- Teachers report observing students eating more fruits and vegetables in lunchroom and increased hand washing after participating in nutrition classes.
- Teacher and students are eager to have nutrition education programs in their classrooms, inviting us back year after year.
For more information
call 360-482-2934 or email Carol Rieth at crieth@wsu.edu
Additional information regarding Family Living
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