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| 2066 - Accessing Nutritious Foods (general) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2066.1) | 507 |
Number individuals reporting that their family supplemented their diets with healthy foods that they produced or preserved |
| 2066.2) | 982 |
Number of individuals who reported eating more healthy foods |
| 2066.3) | 988 |
Number of individuals reporting that they utilized delivery systems/access points (e.g. farmer’s markets, CSA’s WIC, Food Pantry) that offer healthy foods |
| 2066.4) | 2 |
Number of farmers markets accepting EBT cards |
| 2066.5) | 600 |
Dollars in EBT, WIC or Senior benefits redeemed at farmers markets |
| 2066.6) | 518 |
Number of families who grew a garden this year |
| 2066.7) | 206 |
Number of first time growers or those who haven’t grown in five or more years |
| 2066.8) | 15 |
Number of restaurants/other institutions utilizing local foods as a result of Extension programming |
Author: Velma Mullins
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
According to Kids Count Date, Laurel County was ranked eighty fifth in Kentucky for overall children’s wellbeing. The Laurel County Cooperative Extension Service Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program Assistant met with fifty-five kindergarten students at Campground Elementary. Six classes were taught using Discover My Plate curriculum. Ninety Five percent learned how to name the five MY Plate food groups and were able to identify food choices within each group. They learned the i
Author: Velma Mullins
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
According to the Center for Disease Control, foodborne illness affects about one in six Americans (or 48 million people), leading to one hundred twenty eight thousand hospitalizations and three thousand deaths every year. The Nutrition Education Program is a program offered by the Cooperative Extension Service that provides instruction for limited resource individuals and families to improve the nutritional quality of their diets, food safety and food resource management. The expande
Author: Kimberly Whitson
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
According to statistics from the USDA, Kentucky ranks as the 14th highest state in the nation for the number of food insecure children under the age of 18. This would indicate that approximately 200,000 Kentucky children, at some point and time, do not have access to enough food for an active, healthy life or that the food in their homes is not nutritionally adequate for growing bodies. To address the need for Laurel County children to have food on the weekends, when school meals were not availa
Author: Michelle House
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
It seems like a lot to ask of a person when you ask they become more physically active. Time, temperatures, and motivation are factors considered and usually are the excuses used to not be active.In Laurel County the Nutrition Education Program assistant has given enough evidence based information and encouragement for 76% of program participants to make small changes in order to become more active, exercise at least 30 minutes daily after sharing information, and have started doing workou
Author: Michelle House
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Food safety practices seem to follow generational traditions rather than recommendations.In Laurel County the Nutrition Education Program assistant has been successful in changing food safety behaviors in 100% of the program participants. Enough evidence based research has been shared with participants that they now wash their hands before cooking, wash their hands after handling raw meats, clean surfaces to prevent contamination, and they no longer thaw items on the counter.
Author: Michelle House
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
People hate shopping for needed items. In order to get those groceries in people go to the store unprepared and with a sense of dread. They have no clue what they want to eat, what they have on hand, what's on sale, and usually no clue hot to cook a variety of items so they end up buying and fixing the same things over and over, which does not allow for new experiences or wide nutritional variety.In Laurel County 97% of participants in the Nutrition Education Program meetings sho
Author: Michelle House
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Recess and gym time are limited in schools. There is no "home ec" class offered in each school. Parents are busy working, going to school, running kids to appointments and activities. Most families eat on the run, but when they do eat at home it is still a tiresome rush. Families don't eat together often and even more rarely do they cook together. It is a sad situation where people of all ages, especially youth, aren't active enough and can not pre
Author: Judith O'Bryan
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
The Laurel County Farmers Market, the City of London and the Laurel County Extension Office collaborated for the 2nd Annual Farmers Feast. The Farmers Feast program entailed a dinner where all ingredients are locally sourced. Local farmers were highlighted by setting up sample tables and participants were encouraged to meet their local farmers. Agriculture, Horticulture, and Family and Consumer Science Agents worked together to prepare a local dinner that fed 200 participants. The ev
Author: Velma Mullins
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Our mission is to make a difference in lives of Kentucky families through research based education.Families are learning to make changes that show improvements and new healthy lifestyle behaviors. The Laurel County Extension nutrition education assistants partnered with the First Methodist church to provide nutrition and cooking demonstrations to Laurel County residents to improve their cooking skills and have healthy lifestyles. Twenty one participants attended programs and they learned c
