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Tired of searching for recipes, creating new recipes or modifying recipes to suit your target audience needs? Quickly locate recipes that have been analyzed and that may support your nutrition education goals and lessons.
Teach Food Resource Management Skills
Find creative ideas to use leftovers, low cost proteins, "one pot" meals, and recipes with a limited number of ingredients that are commonly found. Recipes that are ready in 30 minutes or less may help the reluctant cook "eat-in" versus grabbing food on the run; possibly saving time, money and increasing the nutrient quality of the diet. Each recipe includes an estimated cost to help SNAP eligible participants budget wisely and prepare inexpensive meals. The cost of the recipes may be used to discuss food budgeting skills as a supplement to an existing lesson plan.
Educators may want to use the Shopping List to discuss foods that are more commonly "on-hand" versus foods that may need to be purchased on a one time basis. Shopping lists can be created by going to a recipe and clicking on the “add to shopping list” link. The contents of the shopping list can be accessed by the “view shopping list” link at the top of all recipe pages. Again, the costs of the recipes can be discussed and the ingredient list used to compare costs of recipes.
Meet Nutrition Education Goals
Search education topics and audience specific recipes to help SNAP recipients make healthy, low cost food choices. Recipes include:
- Cost per serving and per recipe
- Nutrient analysis (created with ESHA Food Processor)
Recipes offer a range of basic and slightly more advanced cooking techniques. Educators can choose appropriate recipes for food demonstrations or cooking classes to emphasize a healthy diet, healthy cooking options and to build confidence in target audiences that may be new to cooking.
Print options include printer-friendly pages, large font and recipe cards. The recipe cards can be used for educators who want to mix and match the recipes for meal and menu planning or to encourage use of a recipe card box for favorites.