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Take a step toward meeting your nutritional goals by learning how to adjust your favorite recipes in accordance with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Topics covered in this publication include:

• Setting your nutritional goals
• Introducing gradual change to your family
• How to adjust recipes
• Sources of additional information
• The Dietary Guidelines
• Samples of modified recipes
• Tables of substitutions for popular products

Using food thermometers is the only way to ensure that food is fully cooked and safe to eat. This set of two Extension Community Lessons explains how to choose the correct thermometer for your needs.

Bite When the Temperature is Right — This Leader Guide (HEF586) contains suggested program materials, including a PowerPoint® presentation, a case study, and discussion questions on cooking with thermometers.

Bite When the Temperature is Right — The Participant Guide (HEF587) describes types of thermometers and how to use them. It also includes safe cooking temperatures for meats and seafood. A quiz on thermometers, a “Which Thermometer Meets Your Needs?” handout, and an evaluation form are included.

This comprehensive, 196-page resource was updated and published by USDA in 2009. This spiral-bound publication is an excellent resource for those canning for the first time or experienced canners wanting to improve their canning practices. It includes recipes and processing recommendations.

Topics include:

• Principles of Home Canning
• Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Fruit and Fruit Products
• Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Tomatoes and Tomato Products
• Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Vegetables and Vegetable Products
• Preparing and Canning Poultry, Red Meats, and Seafood
• Preparing and Canning Fermented Food and Pickled Vegetables
• Preparing and Canning Jams and Jellies

Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.

Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.

Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.

In Section 1, participants can learn the basics of managing health. Through all (10) 1-hour lessons learn about healthy role-modeling, MyPlate, portions sizes, nutrition facts labels, dining out, recipe modification, goal setting, and fad diets.

Buy all 4 sections and receive 15% off.

Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.

Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.

Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.

In Section 2, participants can discover food and food components they should reduce. These (5) 1-hour lessons cover topics such as drinking healthy beverages, sugar smarts, healthy snacking, sodium savvy, and finding out about fat.

Buy all 4 sections and receive 15% off.

Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.

Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.

Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.

In Section 3, participants can focus on food and nutrients they can increase. These (8) 1-hour lessons center on fruits and vegetables, grains, dairy, protein foods, potassium, calcium, vitamin D, and fiber filled foods..

Buy all 4 sections and receive 15% off.

Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.

Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.

Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.

In Section 4, participants will harness the power of physical activity. These final (3) 1-hour lessons will cover physical activity for youth and families, adults and special considerations for older adults.

Buy all 4 sections and receive 15% off.

Discovery Neighborhood is an interactive, six-lesson program designed for K-5 grade youth. Each lesson focuses on one FightBac!™ food safety concept (hand washing, clean, separate, cook, cill, and produce) and includes age-appropriate activities.

Use it in classrooms, out-of-school programs, or any informal educational programming. 

Get the companion play mat for the Discovery Neighborhood program. This large mat is great to increase the interactions of youth with the curriculum.