Success StoryFood Pantry Adult Group Promoting Family Meals
Food Pantry Adult Group Promoting Family Meals
Author: Patricia Holbert
Planning Unit: LaRue County CES
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
Shepherd’s Pie Food Pantry located in LaRue County provides food weekly to an average of 127 families with food insecurities. LaRue County Expanded Food and Nutrition Education (EFNEP) Program Assistant teaches bi weekly classes to enhance the participants nutrition knowledge, food safety and cooking skills.
By demonstrating basic cooking skills and distributing recipes using fresh produce supplied by Shepherd’s Pie participants are increasing their intake of fresh fruits and vegetables and seeing a decrease in some health issues.
One participant commented “I had no idea that I liked turnips, after watching a demonstration and sampling them, they are now my families favorite vegetable”.
As a result participants are trying a wider variety of fruits and vegetables and willing to try 80% more of produce when they have sampled it in a recipe.
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