Marion County Cooperative Extension office Expanded Food and Nutrition Program partnered with one of our local Elementary Schools for a Nutrition and Cooking demo class for students and their parents. I suggested that I come in and teach Healthy Choices for Everybody. This was a seven week class. I taught all of the seven required lessons. With each lesson we made one of the recipes that coincided with our lesson. 

We had a small group but each family was always excited to be at the class. I had one of the families where both Dad and Mom came. The dad had never cooked, planned a meal or even grocery shopped. But during the course of our seven weeks, he along with our other families were really enjoying the class. The dad was really getting into the cooking and he told his wife that he could even cook her a meal and he did. 

The basis of our Nutrition and Cooking classes that parents and child was getting nutrition information, cooking skills and actually having fun with learning. Our class befitted by having learned about nutrition, cooking skills, meal planning, budgeting and grocery shopping. The families noted that without the help of the Expanded Food and Nutrition program that they would not have had the learning experience with their child and how much fun they had with the time that they spent.