Loving your Family Feeding their Future

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Loving your Family Feeding their Future

• Family Meals
• Easy, Tasty, and Healthy
• Tricia Kinnell
• Arizona Nutrition Network
• Yuma County Public Health Services District

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Who am I?

• Who are you?
• Ages of your children?
• What would you like to learn?

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Objectives

• Planning ahead to make meals easier, tastier,
  healthier, faster, and less expensive
• Shopping and buying low-cost foods to make and
  serve in a hurry
• Using time saving tips when cooking meals
• Involving your children in making meals
• Learn from each other

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Whats for dinner?

• How do you decide what to make for Dinner?
• How do you make a quick meal?
• How do you make a healthy meal?
• What are your favorite low-cost foods?

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My Pyramid

• What meal ideas does this poster give you?

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Healthy Meals can be Simple

• Add vegetables to a favorite low-cost food like
  packaged macaroni and cheese

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Cook when you have more time

• On the weekend make a double recipe of a
  casserole and freeze it for next week.

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Do some tasks Ahead

• Wash and trim vegetables or make fruit salad a
  few hours or the day before your meal

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Cook Fast

• Microwave, broil, or stir fry

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Make no-cook meals or snacks

• Salads with canned tuna, chicken, or beans Cold
  sandwiches
  Raw vegetables with low-fat yogurt or dip

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Stretch your food dollars

• Make a list
• Check store sales
• Buy store brands

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Shopping with kids

• Help pick fruits and vegetables
• Give everyone a job
• Colors, letters, numbers
• Read labels, compare prices
• Weigh fruits and vegetables
• May take longer but will teach kids life skills
  and healthy habits that will last a life time

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Make a meal activity

• Pick two different foods
• How would you use these foods to make a snack or
  meal
• May include what you have already at home

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How can my child help me cook?

• Set the table
• Pick what vegetables or fruit
• Help measure
• Help stir
• Pick a new food to try
• May take longer but will teach kids life skills
  and healthy habits that will last a life time

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Other tips

• Look for recipes that use only five to seven
  ingredients
• One dish meals
• Plan
• Use a Crock pot to cook less expensive cuts of
  meat
• Eatwellbewell.org

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What are you going to try?
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• Yuma County Public Health Services District,
• Arizona Nutrition Network Program
• 2200 W. 28th St, Yuma, AZ 85364 (928)
  317-4510
• This material was federally funded by USDAs SNAP
  through the AZ Nutrition Network. The SNAP
  provides nutrition assistance to people with low
  income. It can help you buy nutritious foods
  for a better diet. To find out more, contact
  1800-352-8401. This institution is an equal
  opportunity provider and employer.
• Departamento de Salud del Candado de Yuma, La Red
  de Nutrición de Arizona
• 2200 W. 28th St, Yuma, AZ 85364 (928)
  317-4510
• Esta es una institución de igual oportunidad para
  proveer servicios y empleo. Este material fue
  financiado por los fondos del programa de
  estampillas de alimentación de USDA, que también
  provee asistencia nutricional a familias de bajos
  ingresos.
• Para información llame al 1-800-221-5689