Success StoryMove Veggies



Move Veggies

Author: Bethony Morris

Planning Unit: Hancock County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

The Hancock County Cooperative Extension Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program Assistant (EFNEP) was asked to join the South Hancock Elementary 5th grade class.   EFNEP decided to teach the Professor Popcorn program.  When first meeting with the class EFNEP talked about how important eating fruits and vegetables where.  All the ways they help our body to grow, keep us healthy, and make our body strong.  

EFNEP learned that only 38% of students where eating vegetables at school lunch.  They all agreed that they were offered veggies every day at lunch, but they didn’t eat them.

EFNEP and students started discussing the veggies they liked, and disliked.  Why they felt like they didn’t like them, color, texture, smell.   EFNEP, and students discussed how they could make the veggies they didn’t like taste better.  Suggestions were such as…adding cheese, asking for ranch to drip them in, maybe if they had been cooked a different way.  Hello Bites, were introduced to the students, and how they should taste all veggies, prepared in different ways before they said, no thank you, to them.

When the program came to an end, 50% more students where eating vegetables at school during lunch!






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