Nutrition Education/Cooking Matters

Since 1996, the North Texas Food Bank has partnered with Share Our Strength, a national anti-hunger, anti-poverty organization, to offer Share Our Strength's Cooking Matters™. Through direct outreach to clients at Member Agencies, Cooking Matters promotes short and long-term solutions to hunger by providing individuals, parents, and children with the skills they need to make healthy, economical food choices. Culinary professionals, nutritionists and food enthusiasts volunteered more than 500 hours of their time to teach low-income participants the basics of healthy cooking, nutrition, food budgeting, and food safety.In fiscal year 2011, 372 participants were served through 26 six-week classes, a 22% increase from the last fiscal year. Furthermore, 12,287 participants received nutrition education through nutrition workshops, cooking demonstrations, and events in the community targeting low-income populations, and over 31,331 nutrition contacts were made.

For more information about the Nutrition Education Department or to schedule a nutrition education opportunity, please contact the Nutrition Education Manager Katherine Lindholm, R.D., or call her at 214.431.4718.

For more information about the Cooking Matters program or to schedule a Nutrition Education Volunteer Orientation, please contact the Nutrition Education Coordinator Sarah Bensinger or call her at 214.269.8970.

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