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Aromatics: Your Secret Weapon
Aromatic herbs offer a lovely way to finish soups, rice, or pasta dishes. Find new ways to help your clients use more aromatic herbs and pep up their meals in today's post!
Using Aromatics: A Guide to Your Favorite Herbs
How should you store your aromatics in order to preserve their freshness and get the most use out of them? Find out in this special premium post!
A New Spin on Whole Grains
The sweet raisins and crunchy almonds combine to enrich this dish with lots of different flavors and textures.
Pudding or Pie? Why Not Both?
This tasty dessert is rich in protein and calcium. It also has way more fiber and nutrients than most typical desserts.
Tuna: What Do You Know About It?
Remember when you could buy tuna canned in water or oil and these were the only options? Now the choices seem endless. Can or pouch? Light, albacore, or yellowfin? Lemon Dill or Spicy Thai Chili? Add in nutrition concerns like sodium and omega-3 fatty acids, and buying a simple can of tuna can be overwhelming! To cut through all the craziness, let’s take a closer look at tuna…
Today is MyPlate's Birthday!
MyPlate turns 4 today -- how exciting! To celebrate, I want to offer you a free MyPlate book. My team and I have been working feverishly on a brand-new MyPlate book for health educators. It's got 10 chapters, complete with leader guides and handouts, and it's all for you, for free...
Broccoli Quiz!
What do you know about broccoli? What do your clients know? Find out with this fun broccoli quiz! This quiz offers a great way to re-introduce this super-healthful vegetable, and is new way to make broccoli approachable, appealing, and fun.
3 Interactive MyPlate Activities
After multiple reader requests, I put together a fun MyPlate sticker pack for the Nutrition Education Store, but today I decided that the activities were simply too fun to miss. So I'm offering a sneak peek on the blog, for free! Let's take a look at these activities -- which will you try first?
Popcorn Basics
Did you know that the average American consumes 204 cups of popcorn each year? Learn about healthful ways to prepare it and ways to keep your grocery bill low in this brand-new post by Cheryle Jones Syracuse, MS...
Activity Idea: Make a Healthful Recipe Book
Feeling inspired? How about a new activity idea? You can do this activity with groups large and small, using tons of resources or no more than some printouts and a stapler. You can incorporate social media and put together Pinterest boards, or you can simply lead a discussion that will get your clients thinking. There are a million ways to implement this activity idea! Want to see what it is?
The Most Beautiful Salads
Today I want to highlight some of the most beautiful salads that you and your clients can make. These are perfect for cooking demos, health fair booth samples, recipe handouts, or really whatever you need, salad-wise. Your clients will love bringing these tasty treats to the dinner table too.
Activity Idea: Cholesterol Hallway
Looking for a fresh new activity to help explain cholesterol damage? Check out this practitioner favorite!
Reader Request: Cooking with Ratios
You ask, we deliver! After a few requests from health educators, our team has put together a guide to cooking with ratios. Offer it to your clients or put it up in your own kitchen today!
Holiday Salad for Pear Month
December may be a month dominated by the holidays, but did you know that it's also Pear Month? This lovely winter salad is festive enough for any holiday table and it offers the spotlight to the fruit of the month as well.
5 Dinner Options for Everyone
I've put together some ideas to help your clients manage the family dinner minefield and put together healthful meals that everyone will love. Check them out!
Eat More Fruits and Vegetables as a Family
August is Kids Eat Right Month! Do you have the resources you need? Check out this free nutrition handout, which is a perfect resource for helping kids and families eat more fruits and vegetables in a fun and balanced way...
Help Kids Eat Right
Happy August! Did you know that this month is the very first Kids Eat Right Month? The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Academy Foundation have created a new children's health and nutrition education campaign, and it comes in the form of Kids Eat Right Month. According to Terri Raymond, RDN and chair of the Academy Foundation, “As children head back to school in August, Kids Eat Right Month will reinforce our program’s core messages of shopping smart, cooking healthy and eating right. By following these principles, we can help ensure children are healthy, succeed in school and grow into healthy adults."
Kids Activity Guide
Cooking with herbs and spices can be a ton of fun, but sometimes it's difficult to introduce kids to new flavors. If you're working with a group that could benefit from a closer look at these taste boosters, check out this great activity guide.
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