It is a fact that people are going hungry in all communities in Kentucky, and Carroll County is certainly one of those counties.  According to the “Dare to Care” article, Carroll county children ages 18 and under have a 23.8% or 250 children have a child food insecurity.  With that being said, the Family School Resource Officer at Cartmell Elementary school contact the Carroll County Cooperative Extension office and ask if we could offer some type of food program for the children.   She specifically targeted the “back pack buddies” children and we agreed to do a program if we could teach nutrition and life skills at the same time.  She agreed. We three agents (ANR, FCS, AND 4-H) sat down and put a schedule together. We met every Thursday after school where the children were divided into an A and a B group.  So we taught the same lesson twice so that each group experienced each lesson.  We taught the importance of eating from the five major groups of food and actually cooked at each session.  Twenty students total attended the sessions with 100% of attendance for the twelve week program.  Their favorite lesson was the protein lesson where each student made their own omelet.  80% of the attendees actually made omelets at home. We used the “Recipes For Life” recipes for the fruit where we made banana pudding and fruit salsa. 95% said they would make it at home.  Vegetables was chicken stir fry, Grains was granola bars, and with milk they tasted 1%, 2%, whole milk and chocolate milk.  Of course chocolate milk was the favorite milk.  At the conclusion of the activity, 100% of the students knew the five food groups and could identify their favorite food in each group.  They left asking if we could repeat this after school project for the coming school year.  The Family School Resource Officer was very pleased and felt that the program was definitely worthwhile.