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| 2066 - Nutrition and Food Systems General | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2066.1) | 35 |
Number of individuals who reported eating 4-6 servings of fruits and/or vegetables daily |
| 2066.2) | 25 |
Number of individuals who reported they utilized delivery systems/access points (e.g. farmers’ markets, CSAs, WIC, food pantries) that offer healthy foods |
| 2066.5) | 56 |
Number of individuals who reported increased knowledge, skills, or intentions related to using the nutrition facts label |
| 2066.4) | 60 |
Number of families/caregivers who reported supplementing their diets with healthy foods that they grew or preserved (community or backyard gardens, fishing, hunting, farmers markets) |
| 2066.3) | 0 |
Dollars in EBT, WIC, or Senior benefits redeemed at farmers’ markets |
Author: Bobbie Hancock
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The SNAP-NEP Assistant in Mercer County partnered with the ANR agent, Southland Dairy, The Dairy Alliance, and Mercer County Elementary School to teach 586 students the MyPate Dairy Lesson. Student were taught to identify dairy foods, why they need dairy in their diet. serving sizes, and nutrition facts for various dairy products. In addition, agriculture information was shared so students could learn about where milk and other dairy products come from, how farmers take care of their cows
Author: Bobbie Hancock
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
To celebrate National Beef Month in May the NEP assistant teamed up with the ANR Agent to develop Get Cooking with Beef, a 4-week series focused on all aspects of cooking with beef. In this series youth learned on a range of topics from food safety, knife skills, beef cut selection, beef nutrition, recipe creation, MyPlate, food preparation and cooking methods. 10 students participated in this series. Several of the students indicated their favorite part was actually getting to cook their o
Author: Bobbie Hancock
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Mercer County Senior Nutrition Education Program Assistant partnered with Mercer County Elementary Family Resource Center to conduct an afterschool program for K-2 students using the LEAP curriculum. Each month, the NEP would read a story to the children with each story containing information about healthy foods to assist the children in learning to identify different foods. MyPlate was also shown to the children each month so that they could learn what food group each food belonged to. Handwash
Author: Bobbie Hancock
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The Mercer County NEP Assistant partnered with Adult Day Care, a program for adults with special needs. Monthly the NEP assistant utilized the Healthy Choices for Everybody curriculum to teach the participants about healthy eating. At each program the NEP assistant provided a recipe from the UK NEP Food & Nutrition calendar. Participants learned how to identify foods from each part of the meal and determine which food group they belonged to on MyPlate. They also learned about the importance
Author: Tara Duty
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
In January of 2023 I implemented Lunch N Learn, a food and nutrition program that demonstrates how to cook healthy recipes from a specially curated calendar. When I first started this program I would have the recipe prepared when participants arrived, we would try it together, talk about it and then have a nutrition lesson. Over time I took feedback from my participants and now we do a hybrid of cooking together and me preparing prior to them arriving. The majority of my participants
