Meetings Needs During COVID 19

With COVID 19 being a big part of everyone’s life and having to find ways to cope with the mandated wearing mask and social distancing, teaching group nutrition classes is not possible. The Floyd County Cooperative Extension’s, Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and the local food pantries agreed that the information was still vital to the families and needed to be made accessible to them. 

A Brown Bag Project was discussed and agreed on. Nutritional information such as My Plate, Food Safety, Wally Cat coloring pages for kids, healthy recipes, Cook Wil Recipes, EFNEP flyers and broachers and incentives were added to the bags. The bags were given out along with the food boxes each month. Around five thousand bags were distributed in four months.

Comments such as thanks for the recipes, especially the ones that went with the food items that came in the boxes. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the can pork so my family would like it. The Breakfast Hash is delicious. Thanks for the tip to use the can pork because my family doesn’t like sausage. Another one was, “My daughter hang the Wally Cat hand washing poster in the bathroom and also the kitchen and insist that everyone wash their hands when needed.