Success StoryFamily Meals



Family Meals

Author: Deborah Messenger

Planning Unit: Cumberland County CES

Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)

Plan of Work: Nurturing Families

Outcome: Initial Outcome

After many discussions with the Agriculture and Natural Resources agent, it was decided that we needed to offer some educational programming on an online platform. Currently the Family and Consumer agent, Agriculture and Natural Resources agent, and SNAP-ED assistant were organizing take out bags for folks to pick up once a week with activities in them, but this would be for a different group of clientele. With that, it was determined that we would do two online series through Google Classroom. The first series would be geared around family and consumer sciences, Family Meals, and the second would be geared towards agriculture, From the Soil to the Plate. A curriculum was designed with PowerPoints (with voice over), worksheets, resources, and evaluations and uploaded to the classroom platform. Participants called the office to enroll and then received an email invitation. In total, 15 individuals signed up for the Family Meals series. This series contains three lessons, meal kits, make ahead meals, and family mealtime. For the first session, 14 have completed the evaluation and participants rated that before the course their level of knowledge of meal kits was poor or average (100%). After completing the course, the 57.1% indicated that now they have a good level of understanding of meal kits and 42.9% indicated having an excellent level of understanding. 100% of students also indicated that they would use the information from the lesson to examine the amount of money spent on food.100% of students that completed the evaluation indicated the lesson provided them the tools to continue operations at home. When asked what the most significant thing from the program that they would apply to their lives, participants made the following comments: "utilizing things I have at home first", "there are substitutes for almost all ingredients that are practical and on hand", and "the importance of watching how much money I spend on food".






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