According to the 2018 State Indicator Report by the Center for Disease Control, fruit and vegetable consumption is essential for children in preventing chronic diseases. While this is an essential part of the diet, behavior change is a new challenge within itself. The United States Department of Agriculture states consuming meals away from home is linked to poor nutritional quality and overweight and obesity. Cook Together, Eat Together focuses on families with children cooking meals together at home and eating together. It has been reported that cooking more meals at home is connected to increased fruit & vegetable consumption.

Cook Together, Eat Together was an online social media program and hands-on cooking class that encouraged homemade family meals in Floyd County provided by the Floyd County Family & Consumer Science program. This program included 11 individuals in the social media program and six adults and five youth in the “cooking socials,” hands on cooking classes. All were families from the Floyd County area.

As a result of the program, 50% of the participants made homemade meals six times a week and the other 50% of participants claimed to make homemade meals seven days a week. Fifty percent also claimed to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. One-hundred percent claimed to make the featured recipes at home such as muffins, chicken and dumpling soup, and broccoli Alfredo. One hundred percent of parents also reported including their children in the cooking process at home.