Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Program helps limited resource families, their children and pregnant women learn to shop smarter, eat healthier, and save money. Other programs such as "Eating What We Grow" (info below, recipes to right) help Vermonters to select, store and prepare Vermont produce.
Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Program helps limited resource families, their children and pregnant women learn to shop smarter, eat healthier, and save money. Other programs such as "Dining with Diabetes" assists the increasing population dealing with this challenge to design menus, meals and recipes to meet the unique dietary needs of Vermont's diabetic population. Other topics offered by the University of Vermont include a Speakers Bureau discourse focused on healthy eating, in addition to the creation and promotion of youth curriculum surrounding healthy food issues.
The objectives of EFNEP are to assist low-income families and youth acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behaviors necessary for nutritionally sound diets and to contribute to their personal development and the improvement of total family diet and nutritional welfare. Participation in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program should result in:
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This project began as a print resource designed to provide Vermonters with resources and information to help them select, store, prepare and enjoy the abundance of produce grown in our state that emphasizes the consumption of local fruits and vegetables.
Let us educate you about choosing and preparing Vermont-grown fruits and vegetables. Get started! This program offers general information below and specifics about fruits and veggie nutritional information and some recipes on the right. An extensive recipe list is offered below in our complete index to recipes.
Last modified June 10 2009 12:25 PM
