Recipes for Life was held by the Grant County Cooperative Extension office for the first time since the beginning the COVID pandemic. 45 Students from Grant County’s Gifted 5^th grade program and their teacher took a field trip to the extension office for a day of education and fun. The Grant County FCS agent, 4-H agent, and Senior NEP assistant, taught lessons that included information about food safety, kitchen safety, knife skills, meal preparation, MyPlate, hand washing, table manners, and family traditions.

A pre-test was given before the program and a post- test was given after the program and the results are as follows:

Increase of overall knowledge in Food Safety of 18%.

Increase of overall knowledge in Kitchen Safety of 31%.

Increase of overall knowledge in Knife Skills of 77%.

Increase on overall knowledge in Meal Preparation of 14%.

Increase of knowledge in MyPlate of 33%.

Increase in sum of reported Cooking Self-efficacy in 89% of students.

Increase in sum of reported Cooking Attitudes in 71% of students.

40% of students reported they strongly agree they will eat more fruit.

31% of students reported they strongly agree they will eat more vegetables.

40% of students reported they strongly agree they will try new foods.

58% of students reported they strongly agree they will help prepare food at home.

47% of students reported they agree they will eat more fruit.

47% of students reported they agree they will eat more vegetables.

42% of students reported they agree they will try new foods.

36% of students reported they agree they will help prepare food at home.

 Afterwards the students wrote letters to the extension staff. Students made various positive comments such as; “You really inspired me to try new foods and eat healthy.”, “I hope to make the vegetable try with my family.”, and one student expressed that their parents were not holding the knife correctly and they showed them how.