Author: Reda Fugate
Planning Unit: Perry County CES
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
Perry County being a food desert. A Pandemic/snow & Ice storm/Flooding in Perry County leaving more and more families food insecure. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) Assistant Senior through the University of Kentucky, partnered with Save the Children, Perry County fiscal Court, Perry County School System, and many more community partners to distribute over 40,000 food boxes throughout Perry. The information provided participants with the latest COVID-19 information as well as nutrition information and healthy recipes to use with the items in the food boxes. Pairing recipes with items in food boxes made it easy for recipients to use items in healthier ways and cut down food waste. Using Healthy Choices for Every Body Curriculum on how to store and prepare the food.
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