The Powell County SNAP-Ed assistant partnered with the local senior center to teach their seniors about nutrition by teaching Healthy Choices for Every Body curriculum. 

Seniors learned how to read their recipes, measure foods, food safety, menu planning, portion control and how to make a grocery list before heading out to the grocery store. The seniors helped with the demonstrations of the recipes by measuring properly, using food safety and handing out portioned samples. 

Eleven seniors entered with 100% completion of lessons. 84% showed improvement on Food Resource, 85% showed improvement on Food Nutrition, and 75 % showed improvement on Food Safety. 

One senior stated “ I’d never realized just how badly some of the foods were for me that I had been eating until these classes.”