Healthy Living, Inc. partners with client organizations to provide nutrition education and healthy cooking outreach programs. 

 

These programs vary from hands-on and demo-style activities, to customized programs based on the audience or specific goals of the participants or partner organizations.

 

Some examples include:

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Summer camps

• Youth Development programs
• WIC recipient education programs
• Shelter programs
• Health fairs
• Lecture

Our constituents and clients:

• Acquire a sense of social responsibility in the promotion of healthy eating practices for their friends, family members and greater communities

• Become ambassadors of health in their own communities

• Can tell the difference between whole and processed grains

• Choose water over soft drinks

• Combine different natural spices to a dish to increase flavor while maintaining a healthy balanced meal

• Comprehend cultural history of culinary traditions and apply to their eating patterns

• Demonstrate knowledge of the connection between health and nutrition

• Discover that exploring new foods can be fun

• Develop life-long relationships with caring educators and community members who  are personally committed to their progress towards health and wellness

• Eat, shop and cook with more seasonal fruit and vegetables; less starch

• Families cook together, applying acquired basic cooking skills

• Gain a safe learning space for socio-emotional development

• Know where Farmer’s Markets are located in their community

• Lose weight

• Make meals without red meat and still enjoy them

• Make their own salad dressing

• No longer cook with grease, lard and excess fats

• Read labels

• Learn the importance of healthy fats from both plant and animals

• Young children teach their parents both culinary techniques and methods for cooking fruits and vegetables such as butternut squash or eggplant that might have previously been unfamiliar territory