6-week series for grades 6-12. Helps teens become self-sufficient in the kitchen while learning healthy habits. Group size 5-15. 60-90 min lessons; total of at least 6 hours of teaching time.

• Eat Smart
• You Are What You Eat
• Power up with Breakfast
• Find the Fat
• Watch Out for Added Sugars
• Snack Attack 

6-week series designed for groups of 7-15 youth, aged 14-21 years. Designed to build food, nutrition, and cooking literacy, while integrating social emotional learning and using trauma-sensitive facilitation. Participants enjoy hands-on cooking, facilitated conversations, and interactive activities that support healthy connections to food, self, and community. 60-90 min lessons; total of at least 6 hours of teaching time.

Participants:

• Cook and eat together
• Share memories and stories about food
• Explore their personal relationship to food
• Improve cooking and food resource management skills
• Learn about nutrition for good physical and mental health
• Explore healthy coping and self-nourishment skills
• Plan their own menu
• Practice mindful eating, grounding, and gratitude

We offer a six-week nutrition education series to 1st, 5th, and 7th-grade classrooms in schools where at least 50% of the enrollment is eligible for free or reduced school meals. For other middle and high school programs, please see our teen program options.

• Show Me Nutrition Grade 1
  • Lessons can be done in 30 or 45-minute sessions. Series of 6 sessions.
  • Lessons include a tasting activity in 5 of 6 sessions.
  • Students are introduced to the current USDA food graphic and learn that they need to eat a variety of foods from the five major food groups to grow and stay healthy. They learn the difference between television commercials and regular programming so they can begin to understand how advertising influences food choices.
• Show Me Nutrition Grade 5
  • Lessons can be done in 45 or 60-minute sessions. Series of 6 sessions.
  • Lessons include a tasting activity in 5 of 6 sessions.
  • Students will use the current USDA food graphic, and will be encouraged to eat a variety of food from the five food groups each day. They learn about key nutrients that the body needs to stay healthy and the best ways to ensure their bodies get the types of healthy foods they need. The importance of physical activity, body acceptance, food choices and truth in advertising are also addressed.
• Show Me Nutrition Grade 7
  • Lessons can be done in 60-minute or 45-minute sessions. Series of 6-8 sessions.
  • Lessons include tasting activity and hands-on recipe preparation.
  •  Students learn to weigh their food and other fitness options and to make healthy lifestyle choices. Hands-on activities help teens learn to deal with issues like body image and what to eat at fast-food restaurants

Grades 3-5. Lessons are 60-90 minutes. Series of 6 to 8 sessions. Tastes of foods that go along with the lesson are included.

• Drink Low-fat Milk and Water Instead of Sweetened Drinks
• Color Your Plate: Eat More Vegetables and Fruits
• Read It Before You Eat It! The Nutrition Facts Label
• Make Half Your Grains Whole!
• Healthier Foods – Fast: Eat Fewer High-Fat, High-Sugar Foods

Grades 3-5. Lessons are 60-90 minutes. Series of 6 to 8 sessions. Kids in the Kitchen encourages young people to eat healthier meals and snacks as a result of hands-on cooking experiences. Youth learn to prepare simple, healthy foods they can make for themselves and their family members. Each lesson includes kid-friendly handouts such as recipes and tips for how to use kitchen equipment safely.