Nutrition Education/Operation Frontline

The North Texas Food Bank is one of the few Food Banks in the United States that offers nutrition education classes. The Food Bank has two registered dietitians on staff, including Kaitlin Hammond, RD, Nutrition Education Manager and Katherine Lindholm, RD, Nutrition Education Coordinator. They work with our Member Agencies and their clients in providing classes on nutrition, healthy cooking, food budgeting and food safety. Recipes, groceries, prizes and food samples are all provided during each class along with educational tools for interactive learning.

Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline is a national nutrition education program promoting short and long-term solutions to hunger by mobilizing volunteer chefs and nutritionists to teach people the cooking and nutrition skills they need to make healthy food choices on a low-income budget.

In September of 1996 the North Texas Food Bank partnered with Share Our Strength to provide the Operation Frontline program in Dallas. Since then over 2,876 adults and youth have received free nutrition education classes

Operation Frontline has six different curricula to meet the needs of various populations. Kids Up Front, the youth component of Operation Frontline, conducted its first class in the fall of 1998. To this date, over 25 classes have been taught and served over 300 children in low-income areas.

For more information or to volunteer, email our Nutrition Education Manager contact Katherine Lindholm, R.D., or call her at 214.431.4718.

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