Human Nutrition Publications available from  K-State Research and Extension Department of Communications

All Human Nutrition Specialists

Newsletters

F&N Digest

Nutrition Spotlight
Timely Topics

Dining on a Dime

Fruits and Vegetables Gazette

Fruits and Vegetables...Good For You!

Safe Food for Children -- a series of lessons for parents and   child care providers

Each of the five lessons include a leader's guide, a brochure for parents, an animated video starring "Mike, the Microbe," and several "extra's". Call for more information.

    Clean Hands for Healthy Children - L892
    On Your Mark, Get Set, Go Grocery Shopping - L89
    Microbe Foiled Again - L894
    Microbe Family Get Away - L895
    Clean Kitchen Savvy - L896

 

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Mission Nutrition: Cooking for Better Health:

Mission Nutrition is a nutrition education

program designed to help low income pregnant women and women with young children maximize the resources available to them and improve the quality of their diets. There are six lessons based on the Food Guide Pyramid, each emphasizing active participation of the learner. Each lesson includes a detailed facilitator guide, background information, recipes, and participant handouts.

 

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Kid's Meal Times - NCR598

A series of 12 newsletters for parents and caregivers of preschool-age children written in an easy-to-read format appropriate for those with limited reading skills and anyone with a hurried lifestyle.

 

  Check out some highlights from the newsletters

 

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Mealtime/Familytime -- Healthy Family Eating

The materials in MealTime/FamilyTime are designed to encourage families to share meal preparation tasks and to value mealtime as a family event. This site contains the Teaching Guide as well as the five handouts but does not include the 24 menus that come with the complete packet. The complete set of materials can be ordered from Extension Human Nutrition (see Order Form below)

Teaching Guide

Family Mealtime

Nutrition -- How To

Feeding Children

Food Handling Practices for Children

Concepts of Menu Planning

Order Form for Complete Mealtime/FamilyTime package (including 24 menus) -- $8.00

Limited Resource

(The following Limited Resource materials can be obtained from: Sandy Procter, EFNEP Coordinator, 204 Justin Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, (785) 532-1675, procter@ksu.edu.)

Commodity Fact Sheets - A packet of factsheets to help low-income families use commodity foods to stretch their food resources -- Available in English and Spanish on the following topics: Nonfat Dry Milk, Butter, Dried Beans, Honey, Vegetarian Beans, Green Beans, Raisins, Canned Meat, Cornmeal, Peanut Butter.

EFNEP Curriculum - 18 lessons and participant materials

Extension Programming for Limited Resource Families (Video) - EFNEP Nutrition Assistants Share Their Experiences

Working With Limited Resource Families - MF2029

 

H.E.L.P.: A Healthy Eating for Life Program for Mature Adults

The H.E.L.P. Program consists of an Introductory Meeting and sixteen Lessons with handouts, Challenges and Recipes. Pre- and post tests are provided for behavior changes and stages of changes. An Instructor's manual and additional teaching resources are also included. It encourages mature adults to eat a variety of nutritious foods from the Food Guide Pyramid. It can be used to train caregivers, used in groups, as a learn-at-home lesson, or one-on-one lesson.

Preview the manual

 

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Kid Chef and The Clean Kitchen Crew

Explore the world of Food Safety. Start with the Introduction and work your way through the lessons. When finished, you can practice what you have learned in a virtual kitchen.

 

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Nutrition PAGE (Practical Advice for Good Eating)

There are currently three different issues of this resource.

Volume 1 Number 1 Our Changing Food Supply

Volume  Number 2 Make Breakfast a Priority

Volume 1 Number 3 Eat Plenty of Fruits and Vegetables

The cost is .10 per copy.