Cooking Matters: Drink to your Health
Cooking Matters: Drink to your Health
Parents and caregivers will gain confidence to serve beverages with less sugar, including water, to their families.
Parents and caregivers will gain confidence to serve beverages with less sugar, including water, to their families.
Parents and caregivers will gain confidence to plan and prepare quick, budget-friendly, enjoyable meals at home.
Interactive, trauma-informed nutrition lessons that include a food demo and focus on moving your body, adding more nutrients to your daily eating, setting realistic health goals, and meal prepping/grocery shopping on a budget
Participants will discuss the challenges of making affordable and healthy family meals and snacks. We will also discuss different types of proteins and whole grains together.
Interactive, trauma-informed nutrition lessons that include a food demo and focus on moving your body, adding more nutrients to your daily eating, setting realistic health goals, and meal prepping/grocery shopping on a budget
Break into groups and rotate through three stations with specific exercises of varying intensity levels.
We will discuss the various health benefits of fruits and how to incorporate them into our daily food choices. We will focus on how certain fruits may lower the risk of diabetes, help prevent cancer, protects the brain from degenerative brain issues such as Alzheimer’s, and reduces systematic inflammation among many other benefits. We will […]
Educator will offer tips for making meals and snacks that both are healthy and can be prepared quickly.
Participants determine and visually represent how much sugar is in a drink. Participants identify ways to increase water consumption and reduce sugary beverage consumption.
Interactive, trauma-informed nutrition lessons that include a food demo and focus on moving your body, adding more nutrients to your daily eating, setting realistic health goals, and meal prepping/grocery shopping on a budget
Encourage participants to vary their protein food sources
We will discuss the wonderful benefits that veggies offer us, such as how they offer protection against various diseases such as inflammation, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc. We will review the health benefits of each vegetable, such as red onions (compared to white and yellow onions); yellow, red and green peppers; carrots; […]
Will give tips for making meals and snacks that both are healthy choices and allow participant to stay within your budget.
Interactive, trauma-informed nutrition lessons that include a food demo and focus on moving your body, adding more nutrients to your daily eating, setting realistic health goals, and meal prepping/grocery shopping on a budget
Interactive, trauma-informed nutrition lessons that include a food demo and focus on moving your body, adding more nutrients to your daily eating, setting realistic health goals, and meal prepping/grocery shopping on a budget
Learn how to identify common tactics employed in food advertising to influence consumers.
We will discuss the benefits that whole grains offer, focusing on such benefits as weight loss, reduced gut sensitivity, more stable insulin levels, more control of cholesterol and blood pressure, and lower risk for heart disease. We will focus on whole grain/fiber-rich foods such as whole wheat breads and pastas, brown rice, whole wheat cereals, […]
To learn how to build balanced meals with different food groups.
Discuss some tips for making meals and snacks that both are healthy and can be prepared quickly.
We will discuss the benefits that whole grains offer, focusing on such benefits as weight loss, reduced gut sensitivity, more stable insulin levels, more control of cholesterol and blood pressure, and lower risk for heart disease. We will focus on whole grain/fiber-rich foods such as whole wheat breads and pastas, brown rice, whole wheat cereals, […]
Interactive, trauma-informed nutrition lessons that include a food demo and focus on moving your body, adding more nutrients to your daily eating, setting realistic health goals, and meal prepping/grocery shopping on a budget
We will discuss the various health benefits of fruits and how to incorporate them into our daily food choices. We will focus on how certain fruits may lower the risk of diabetes, help prevent cancer, protects the brain from degenerative brain issues such as Alzheimer’s, and reduces systematic inflammation among many other benefits. We will […]
Will offer tips for making meals and snacks that both are healthy choices and allow participant to stay within your budget.
Participants learn how to create a grocery list from a meal plan.
Learn about ways to reduce salt intake and about the Dash Diet for a Heart Healthy!
Interactive, trauma-informed nutrition lessons that include a food demo and focus on moving your body, adding more nutrients to your daily eating, setting realistic health goals, and meal prepping/grocery shopping on a budget
Will provide tips for making meals and snacks that both are healthy choices and allow participant to stay within your budget.