Success StoryMaking Healthy Choices



Making Healthy Choices

Author: Toina Williams

Planning Unit: Hardin County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

Toni Williams
 Hardin County 

Success Story

Impact: Long Term

Making Healthy Food Choices

 

Hardin County has several youth groups with in the County. P.U.R.E. (Perfect You Really Exist) 

Is a youth group designed for girls in grades 3rd to 12th. P.U.R.E. assist the young ladies, with homework, prep for standardize testing, college prep, life skills, and hygiene.

Life skills (cooking classes) was on Saturday’s mornings. In the classes, they were taught about  food safety, temperature reading, how to wash dishes properly, and washing hands properly, measuring and knife skills. The classes were 2 hours long on Saturday. The girls would make their own breakfast or lunch ranging from eggs their way, biscuits, sausage, and bacon, homemade pizza, tacos, made their own subs of choice turkey or ham. 

The girls also, made Christmas dinner for their parents. Which consisted of ham, fried chicken, green beans, mash potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and dinner rolls. The parents were surprised at how well the girls did on the dinner.

One of the young girls stated that because of this class she has become more interested in cooking and wanting to eat more, healthier.






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