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Empowering Teens Through Nutrition Education: Create Better Health in Utah

Join us for the "Pro-Teen" Nutrition Classes on June 14, 2018, featuring Kristi Strongo and Cathy Merrill from Utah State University Extension. Learn to craft nutritious meals with our unique “Choose Your Own Adventure” approach, focusing on meal planning, budgeting, and the importance of complementary proteins and vegetables. This evidence-based curriculum, designed by expert dietitians, supports career exploration in nutrition, dietetics, and food science, helping teens create healthy recipes and foster family meal time.

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Empowering Teens Through Nutrition Education: Create Better Health in Utah

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  1. “Pro-Teen” Nutrition Classes Create Better Health Utah Food Sense, SNAP-Ed FACS Conference, June 14, 2018 Kristi Strongo, USU Extension, Food $ense Cathy Merrill, USU Extension, Utah Co. FCS Casey Coombs, USU Extension, Food $ense

  2. Food Sense

  3. FACS and Create Better Health  • Performance Objectives • Nutritious, Choose Your Own Adventure meals • Meal planning and budgeting (SNAP-Ed) • Complementary proteins & vegetables! • Career Exploration • Nutrition and Dietetics • Food Science • Public Health • Exercise Science

  4. CREATES is Pro-Teen • Step by step tool. • Simplified concept of putting food together rather than just following a recipe.  • This recipe adaptation provides unlimited potential for “creating” new recipes. • Empowers the learner.

  5. USDA Dietary Guidelines • Evidence Based Curriculum • Written by dietitians employed by Utah State University Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science and Cooperative Extension • CBH 2018- Currently in the peer review process • Local Nutrition Educators can be brought in as a guest presenter if school is Title 1 or Free and Reduce meals are over 50%

  6. Handouts- CBH • Available online • Creates tool • Grocery shopping • Misleading claims • Shopping for produce • Spice it up • Keeping a well-stocked pantry • Many more

  7. Family Meal Time • Conversation starters • Menu planner • Place setting • Food safety posters • Basic knife care and cuts • Napkin folds

  8. DEMO 13 Different CREATES handouts Plus additional topics like grocery shopping, selecting fruits and vegetables and Spice Blends

  9. Contact Information • For more information contact: • Kristi Strongo • Kristi.strongo@usu.edu • Cathy Merrill • Cathy.merrill@usu.edu Curriculum and handout download can be found at www.extension.usu.edu/fscreate Tab: Lessons for Adults

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