Nutrition Education

Appalachian Sustainable
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Nutrition Education

As we’ve lost our connection with food, we’ve lost the knowledge of how to cook, and how to eat healthily. Growing Minds’ cooking demonstrations and classes teach kids important skills they no longer learn at home—how to prepare and enjoy fresh foods.

Our hands on programs make an impact. The proof? We’ve seen first graders eagerly eating carrot and kohlrabi stew because they made it themselves.

If you’d like to offer Nutrition Education in your school, please use our resources below and contact us about cooking demos. We have cooking kits you can use and can help you connect with chefs who will come to your classroom.

Recipes

Click here for kid friendly recipes.

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Do you have a favorite healthy recipe for cooking with kids? Please send it, and pictures, if you have them.

Resources

Chef Fest Training Manual (PDF)

Cooking with Kids Safety Rules

Vermont FEED Taste Test Guide (PDF)

Links

Cooking with Kids

Sustainable Food Center - Happy Kitchen Program

Vermont FEED

More recipes:

Farmers' Market Recipes by Juliette

Recipes from Puget Sound Farms

Kids Comments on Farm to School

From Nikolay

The garden lets me learn outside of school. It let me be able to smell different smells. I like to taste things in our garden.

From Ashley

The school garden helps me make good food choices when I'm shopping with my folks.

From Sam D.

Thank you for teaching us about growing and planting plants. It was graet seeing Swiss chard and kale plants. And zinnias lettuce and onin seeds. We will all water and wamth.

From Breanna

I platid some onions. I appreciate you lating us have a garden. It was fun pulling the weeds. And fun plating the seeds. When some of them need pold we will pull them up.