CULINARY & WELLNESS EDUCATION
The growing issue of food insecurity—a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life has prompted to provide culinary and nutritional wellness education classes to city residents who are most in need and regardless of age, status, gender and ethnicity, disability, religious or political beliefs.
Teach low-income participants the basics of food and kitchen safety, food preparation, and making healthy choices and substitutions.
Choose recipes that demonstrate key nutrition, food budgeting, and food preparation lessons each week.
Show them how to make healthy food selections by explaining nutrition labels, talking about what’s in the ingredient lists.
Provide hands-on, personalized food shopping and show them how to effectively navigate the store to find affordable healthy items.
Facilitate class discussions on each cooking or food safety message, allowing participants to brainstorm how they might put new behaviors into action, discuss barriers to adopt new behaviors, and shared ideas with their peers for overcoming barriers.
Demonstrate basic cooking techniques and terminology, proper knife handling, various cooking methods, food safety and sanitation measures.
Discuss include ‘My Plate” as a tool for healthy eating, planning balanced meals, benefits of fruits and vegetables, improving eating habits, cutting the fat, food budgeting, serving sizes, reading labels, making better selections at the grocery store and physical activity.
