Food $ense
The Food $ense Program offers a series of lessons geared to limited income audiences. Each session includes easy-to-read materials, a food demonstration with taste sampling, interactive lessons and where appropriate, a game or activity. All are offered free of charge.After completing this series, participants are better able to:
- prepare nutritious foods on a budget
- understand nutrition basics for healthful eating
- understand basic food safety practices
- plan healthy meals and snacks
Activity-Enhanced Nutrition Education Lessons
Fun-packed lessons teach nutrition while keeping students physically active in P.E. classes. These 30-minute lessons for first and second grade students build the base for our six-week series delivered in third and fourth grades. As schools work to implement their Nutrition and Physical Activity Plans and prepare students for WASL testing on Health and Fitness EALRs, these lessons help students become familiar with basic nutrition concepts.
ECEAP/Headstart Lessons
Young children benefit from talking about and tasting new foods. Research shows that when young children have positive food tasting experiences, they are more likely to try healthy foods as they grow up. This series of monthly lessons include a story with flannel board, a group activity, and a tasting station with additional activities. Lessons also include "I Tasted a New Food Today" sticker master and parent newsletters to extend the lesson into the home.
Caring Families
This series of lessons covers basic nutrition, stretching food dollars, food preparation, meal planning and food safety information.
Junior Chef
This series teaches students healthy lifestyle choices and food preparation skills, if desired. Each lesson contains hands-on activities that help students integrate the nutrition knowledge they gain. In addition, a cooking session utilizing 5 to 6 "Jr. Chefs" of the day prepare a food related to the nutrition theme of the day.
Nutrition In Me!
Exciting classroom programs combine nutrition education and hands-on activities to help students discover how and why to choose healthy foods, be physically active and wash their hands before touching food.
Camera-ready copy for the back of school lunch menus. Offers tips on nutrition, a kid-friendly recipe each month, and tips for getting the family involved in physical activity. In English and Spanish.
If you would like to learn more contact the Nutrition Program Coordinator, Gayle Alleman at (360) 337-4651
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