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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

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.