The Bullitt County Extension Service,Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program Assistant and the Bullitt County Public School System  have finished their fifth school year of working together to bring healthy eating habits to some 214 students. Grades range from first,second fourth and fifth grades in three of the grade schools.

One of the goals in the program is to encourage the children to try different foods so using recipes from the Professor Popcorn Program we made a cookbook that each one of the students could take home and share. The students also had the chance to taste test some of those recipes in class when their lesson was being taught on the different food groups.

Eighty percent of the students in grades first/second improved in the knowledge necessary to choose foods within the dietary guidelines as did eighty-eight percent in grades fourth/fifth.

A student told me that now he has his own cookbook he wants to try different foods. He liked the idea of making his own food and that not all vegetables taste bad.