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Description:
To assist low-income residents of the county make healthier food decisions by providing educational programs with an emphasis on food preparation.

Objectives:

· Dietary Quality: To motivate participants to adopt eating and lifestyle behaviors that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid.

· Food Safety: To improve households' safe handling, preparation, and storage of food.

· Shopping Behavior/Food Resource Management: To enhance practices related to thrifty shopping for the preparation of nutritious foods.

· Food Security: To insure that low-income individuals and families have enough to eat without resorting to emergency food assistance.

· Approach:
· One-On-One Class Series: Meet with adult participant for four to eight 1.5-hour sessions discussing topics related to the objectives above. Class series will be designed to meet individual learning needs. Meal preparation integrated into each session. We can meet in the office or we do home visits.

· Group Class Series: Meet with a group of 2-10 adult participants for four to eight 2-hour sessions discussing topics related to the objectives above. Class series will be designed to meet overall needs of the group. Meal preparation integrated into each session.

· Adult Group Presentations: One-time presentation on a nutrition topic for a small to medium sized group of adults.

· Youth Group Series: Series of lessons presented to youth groups focusing on cooking skills competency, basics of nutrition and healthy food choices, and food safety. Food preparation integrated into each session.

Potential Topics:
· Cooking on a budget
· How to save 20% on your grocery bill
· What can $10 buy?
· Eating a well-balanced diet
· Cooking with fruits and vegetables
· Cutting the fat
· Cutting the sugar
· Cutting the sodium
· Eating to reduce your risk of cancer
· Eating to reduce your risk of heart disease
· Nutrition during pregnancy
· Picnic/Barbeque safety
· Growing your own food
· Breastfeeding education
· Feeding kids

Cost:
Free to individuals meeting income guidelines. Eat Smart New York! provides all teaching tools and supplies. Cooperating agencies are asked to provide for food costs.

NEW Links:

Center For Disease http://www.cdc.gov
http://www.aicr.org/
USDA - Dietary guide lines and tips http://www.mypyramid.gov/
http://www.kidnetic.com/

http://www.5aday.gov/ 5 A Day web site
Another Web site

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/5aday/index.htm 5 a Day -CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec80059b1a Health Promotion CDC
http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition.html American dietetic Association - Nutrition and Health Page

http://cayugacounty.us/hhs/doh/ another web site??

http://aom.americaonthemove.org America on the move
http://www.tvturnoff.org/ TV Turnoff

Nutrition Works - Cornell University's Division of Nutritional Science professional development resource

Eat Smart New York -
Family and Community Food Decision
-making Program -
- A learning web of Cornell and Community food system stakeholders interested in helping families and communities make healthy food decisions that support local food system.

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Becky Crawford
Community Nutrition Educator
rsc34@cornell.edu

Becki Johnson
Community Nutrition Educator
raj29@cornell.edu

Laura Lee Cummings
Nutrition Teaching Assistant
llc73@cornell.edu