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NUTRITION for ADULTS

The Food Bank's Nutrition Services team offers the following education programs for adults:

Cooking Matters for Adults

Cooking Matters for Adults teaches low-income adults (primarily adults with children) how to prepare and shop sensibly for healthy meals on a limited budget.

Each week participants learn about nutrition, food budgeting, and cooking topics, prepare and eat a meal together, and take home groceries for their families.

On the 5th week of the course, participants are lead in a grocery store tour to help reinforce the information learned.

Additionally, Cooking Matters EXTRA is available for Parents of Preschoolers, Wellness (HIV/AIDS), or Diabetes.

Teaching Cooking Matters: Course Manager Rachel leads a cooking demo

Cooking Matters for Adults and Cooking Matters EXTRA for Parents of Preschoolers are available in English and Spanish. Cooking Matters EXTRA for Wellness and Diabetes are available in English.

Shopping Matters Workshops

Shopping Matters™, provided in partnership with Share Our Strength, is a single workshop, or “tour,” that builds on the healthy cooking and eating concepts taught in Cooking Matters courses. This workshop helps by teaching families to make healthy and affordable choices at the supermarket. During each Shopping Matters tour, participants practice key food shopping skills like buying produce on a budget, comparing unit prices, reading food labels, and identifying whole grain foods. Tours are facilitated by volunteers who work as dietitians, community nutrition educators, culinary professionals, Extension agents, or staff of community agencies serving families in need.

Available in English only

Loving Your Family Feeding Their Future

This 4-session program provides to easy to understand nutrition information that is useful, relevant and reflects

the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid.

Lessons focus on how parents can help their families eat better and be more physically active by promoting seven simple habits:

Habit #1: Vary your veggies
Habit #2: Focus on fruits

Habit #3: Get your calcium-rich foods

Habit #4: Make half your grains whole

Habit #5: Go lean with protein

Habit #6: Watch your fats, sugar, and salt (sodium)
Habit #7: Balance what you eat with physical activity

Each participant receives a guidebook that provides information about the amount of food to eat each day from each food group, tips on buying foods to stretch food dollars, tips on serving foods, including low-cost recipes, and ideas for getting children to eat healthier foods and be physically active every day.

Available in English and Spanish

Eat Smart. Live Strong. (Seniors)

This 4 part program is designed to improve fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity among 60-74 year olds participating in or eligible for the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) nutrition assistance programs.

The FNS developed the intervention to help program providers and communities improve the health of a growing number of low-income older adults. The intervention is based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid as well as a review of promising practices.

This program is available as a 4-part series or as individual lessons.