Success StorySenior Citizens



Senior Citizens

Author: Myrna Vazquez

Planning Unit: Calloway County CES

Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

The Calloway County Nutrition Program Assistant conducted the Healthy Choices curriculum to the senior citizen population of CallowayCounty. The Murray Calloway Senior Center collaborated with two series of the programand a total of 19 participants (16 females and 3 males) completed the seven lessons. The program focused on healthy eating for "one or two", food safety, knowing the limits, breakfast, planning, reading labels and my plate. Participants show interest on the meals for "one or two" as the majority of them lived alone and they had to cook for themselves. A male participant expressed the following at one of the meetings “I have to learn how to cook for myself as my wife used to take care of this”.

Participants enjoyed the taste and demonstration of recipes and have shared that they had prepared some of the recipes at home, especially the ones that can be frozen for a later day. 






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