Success StoryRecipe Club a hit with participants



Recipe Club a hit with participants

Author: Kelly Bland

Planning Unit: Ohio County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

When planning meals for your family, it can be difficult to think of something to fix them every day, of every week, of every month.  The Daviess County Nutrition Program (NEP) SNAP-Ed Assistant, along with the Daviess County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent, created a program to help solve the daily task of meal planning.  Together, they created the Recipe Club.  

Each month, Recipe Club participants are sent 2 – 4 recipes featuring PlateItUp! Kentucky Proud recipes, and information for the monthly topic covered (produce availability, food safety, meal planning, budgeting, etc.).   Recipes are chosen by what is in season for Kentucky, and what is available at the Owensboro Regional Farmers’ Market.  Then, once a month, participants can join the NEP SNAP-Ed Assistant, and FCS Agent, in a live cooking demo via a private Zoom link.  Participants are told ahead of time what recipe will be demonstrated, so they can prepare it along with the Assistant and Agent. (The highlighted recipe chosen is a SNAP-approved PlateItUp! Recipe.)  The Recipe Club began in June 2021, with 69 participants, and by the middle of July, increased to 87.  

During the first cooking demonstration, we had a family join us, where the 5-year-old got to assist with the preparation of the dish.   He enthusiastically exclaimed, “I love to cook!”  Because of his excitement, a Kid’s Recipe Club is being developed to begin in the fall.







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