Join Share Our Strength

and

Let’s Move Faith & Communities for
a series of online trainings on

September 17, 24, and October 1, 1-2 p.m. EDT

Register for each training here:

September 17: Cooking Matters at the Store

September 24: Cooking Matters in Your Food Pantry

October 1: Cooking Matters

Let’s Move Faith and Communities is excited to team up with Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters to train community health leaders on how to empower families with the skills to stretch their food budgets and cook healthy meals so their children get nutritious food at home.

As part of the No Kid Hungry campaign to end childhood hunger in America, Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters teaches participants to shop smarter, use nutrition information to make healthier choices and cook delicious, affordable meals. Founded in 1993, Cooking Matters and thousands of volunteer instructors have helped more than 150,000 low-income families in communities across the country learn how to eat better for less.

Cooking Matters at the Store

THIS WEDNESDAY September 17, 2014, 1-2 p.m. EDT. Register here!

Cooking Matters at the Store tours provide families with hands-on education as they shop for food, giving them skills to compare foods for cost and nutrition. Participants learn how to plan and budget for healthy, affordable and delicious meals for their families. This webinar training will show you how to run a Cooking Matters at the Store Tour, including tips on recruiting participants, resources available to you and best practices for leading a tour.

Cooking Matters in Your Food Pantry

September 24, 2014, 1-2 p.m. EDT. Register here!

Cooking Matters in Your Food Pantry helps with planning, organizing and leading food pantry demos in your community. This webinar training will provides sample outlines of several nutrition education lessons and activities that can be used in the food pantry setting, easily customized to the amount of time you have available for your demonstration. It also contains a wide selection of handouts and recipes to use at your demo and to send home with clients. We will also discuss setting up a well-stocked pantry in the home so clients can access quick, healthy meals with budget and time in mind.

Cooking Matters

October 1, 2014, 1-2 p.m. EDT. Register here!

Cooking Matters hands-on courses empower families with the skills to be self-sufficient in the kitchen. Participants practice fundamental food skills, including proper knife techniques, reading ingredient labels, cutting up a whole chicken, and making a healthy meal for a family of four on a $10 budget. Each course is team-taught by a volunteer chef and nutrition educator and covers meal preparation, grocery shopping, food budgeting and nutrition. This webinar training will cover some of the fundamental food skills that are taught in Cooking Matters courses, including resources available to you like the Smart Phone App with recipes!

Let’s Move Faith and Communities trains, educates and equips community-based health leaders with best practices and resources that they can adapt to fit the needs and goals of their communities.

Get moving and sign up at www.letsmove.gov/communities/sign-up.

You’ll receive news updates, tools and resources, as well as invitations to participate in relevant webinar trainings and conference calls to support your efforts to improve the health and wellness of your community!