Calendar Cooking

The Perry County Family and Consumer Sciences agent started a hands-on workshop for grandparents raising grandchildren to encourage them to prepare different recipes for their families. The 2018 Nutrition Education Program calendar was the resource used for recipes with additional information given relating to the recipe. This program was started in July and has continued monthly with an average of 6 grandparents attending. The Autumn Sweet Potato Chili was an unusual recipe and participants were willing to prepare it but were quick to say that they did not like sweet potatoes or that their husbands or grandkids would not eat sweet potatoes. After preparing the recipe, they all agreed that it was delicious and they would prepare it for their families. One grandmother later reported that her family loved the recipe and that she would never have prepared it if she had not attended this workshop where she made it and tasted the recipe.