Success StoryHealthy Eating Series for Community Education
Healthy Eating Series for Community Education
Author: Kristi Shive
Planning Unit: Warren County CES
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
A Healthy Eating Series Nutritionwas held in Warren County, Kentucky. Many of the Adults who enrolled had poorfood safety practices and often ran out of food before the end of the month. Aserious on “Healthy Choices for Every Body” was conducted by one of the SNAP EdAssistants from the Warren County Cooperative Extension Service. The SNAP EdAssistant partnered with Community Education to present a series focused on teachingparticipants how to create healthy meals on a budget, food safety practices,and proper resource management. Classes included cooking demonstrations,lessons on healthy choices and budgeting, and encouraged individuals topractice proper food safety practices.
100% of the class participantsshowed improvement in diet quality. 86% showed improvement in food resourcemanagement, while 71% increased their intake of dark green vegetables. Severalparticipants’ stated that the recipes made during class were “healthy recipesmy family would like”.
Although the program has ended,participants stated that they planned to continue using the information theylearned, in their everyday life.
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