September 24, 2014 Cooking Matters in Your Pantry NATIONAL SPONSOR
Presenter: Chef Ellen Damaschino No Kid Hungry Training Manager Center for Best Practices Share Our Strength
Agenda Introduction & Goals Share Our Strength and Cooking Matters Overview (5 minutes) Cooking Matters in You Pantry (15 minutes) From the Field (20 minutes) David Kinney, Cooking Matters Coordinator, Visiting Nurse Association, Omaha, NE Stocking Your Pantry at Home (10 minutes) Questions and Discussion (10 minutes)
NO KID HUNGRY, EVERY KID HEALTHY
Why Food Pantries?
Food Banks: Hunger s New Staple Average consecutive months of visiting a food pantry for each client group are: Nascent (1.1 months) Intermittent (5.1 months) Frequent (13.7 months) Recurrent (28.3 months)
Hunger in America 16.2 million kids in America struggle with hunger. (Source: USDA Household Food Security in the United States) Six out of 7 eligible kids do not get free summer meals. (Source: Food Research and Action Center, Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report) In 2010, 40.3 million people in over 18.6 million households across America got help through SNAP (food stamps); about half of those households (8.9 million) were households with children. (Source: USDA Food and Nutrition Services) 15.7 million children (21.6%) in America live in poverty. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports).
Cooking Matters In Your Food Pantry Toolkit Made as a means to answer growing demand Resource so pantries can do their own nutrition education Guide for planning, organizing, and leading food pantry demos Outlines to provide nutrition education lessons and activities
What Can You do?
Pantry Demonstrations - Use the Cooking Matters Education Based Outreach options - Cooking Demo Toolkit - http://nokidhungry2.org/files/cooking-demo-toolkit.pdf - Start small and coordinate with what the food pantry needs and wants - Recruit volunteers to adopt a pantry and provide demonstrations on a regular basis - If demos are not possible, give recipes and tips to food pantries - Encourage a recipe of the week or month that can be highlighted in the food pantry (Use Cooking Matters recipes!) Share Our Strength s Cooking Matters 11
Nutrition Education Creating a Healthy Pantry - Provide one time event trainings for food pantry staff, volunteers or clients - Collaborate with food pantry to define what education opportunities are needed - Try to stick with 1-2 topics that are activity based - Reach out to a nutrition or health professionals to work with food pantry on regular basis - Provide nutrition slogans or nutrition visuals to pantries - Send monthly nutrition tips or facts to food pantries - Provide healthy food donation lists to agencies and individuals during large food drives Share Our Strength s Cooking Matters 12
Marketing Tools Nutrition Slogans Draining and rinsing a can of beans can reduce the sodium by up to 40%! Whole wheat bread can lower your cholesterol and regulate your blood sugar. Brown rice is heart-healthy & can help you feel fuller longer than white rice. Fruits in light syrup or in their own juices are lower in sugar than those in heavy syrup. Don t like meat? Eggs are an excellent source of protein! Whole wheat pasta is a great source of fiber, which helps with digestion and helps you feel fuller longer. Don t like meat? Beans are an excellent source of protein!
HIGHLIGHTS Community Ministries Pantry Project has partnered with YOUR NAME HERE to help distribute food more effectively to their clients. After speaking with XXX, the pantry manager, here is what she had to say about Community Ministry s experience with the Pantry Project: Why did you decide to partner with Your Organization Here on the pantry project? Did you have specific goals you wanted to accomplish while working with us? For a long time we recognized that many families were not interested in a number of the food items we had available in the food bank. Your Organization offered us an opportunity to engage families and demonstrate creative and healthy ways to use the food products that are available. Our first class was engaging families with their children to cook healthy meals using food bank inventory. To date all the cooking classes have been a tremendous success and received rave reviews from all the families. Since we began partnering with you, what impact has the Cooking Matters pantry project had on Community Ministry and the families you serve? The biggest impact has been the interest of families to use items that previously they would pass over. Also at all times we have used the recipe you have given us as guides to using various food items, so even if cooking classes are not in session the influence continues. We have also cooked items and made them available for families during food bank operations as samples of healthy food items. What feedback have you heard from any pantry clients about the changes you ve made at Community Ministry? The most positive and most commented on change has been the move to a self choice model for the food bank. Family s and individual s dignity is preserved by designing the food bank where families can make their own choices. Also families look forward to the cooking samples and classes. The use of recipes we hand out, also helps to create great discussion with families on how to eat healthy. What successes or challenges have you had in working with Cooking Matters? As was listed above, Cooking Matters has helped to advance both quality discussion with families about healthy meals and how to use various products in creative and enjoyable ways. The types of classes that can be organized allow
Leading Your Demonstration Time? Planning Your Pantry Demo and Sample Resources Structure?
Planning Your Demonstration Choose a key message to get across- why are you doing a demo? Choosing a date/time/location Visiting the space to plan ahead (know what is in stock!) Staffing the event
Leading Your Demonstration
We Give You the Basics!
We Give You the Basics!
We Give You the Basics!
Learn to Use What s in the Pantry
From the Field: Next Steps & Getting Started David Kinney, Cooking Matters Coordinator Visiting Nurse Association, Omaha, Nebraska
Hunger Collaborative Local Food Banks and Food Pantries -Strengths and Weaknesses -Pooling Resources
Classes for Adults and Families Tailor class to who the pantry serves 2 or 3 demos to gauge interest and participation
Signing up based on Interest Days and times Frequency of classes Adjusting class to accommodate
Over stocked (participants) Phone or email Contact at Pantry that can remind participants Have back up staff on call
Flexible Menu Contact with the host site a few days prior to the food pantry to check on what is available Use as many of the same ingredients as possible, especially if they are recurring items or new/unique items
What to do with what they have
Sometimes the demo recipe chooses itself. We have a ton of tortillas and peanut butter. Oh and a couple cases of bananas. *Banana Quesadillas*
What are some barriers to offering nutrition education at food pantries?
TIME to Try -Team -Interaction -Market -Excite
Thank you for your time today and thank you for what you do in your communities to help end Childhood hunger.
Questions?
Stock Your Pantry at Home
Building Your Pantry Set Aside A Small Portion of Your Grocery Budget for Stocking Up Focus on Stocking Up on the Best Deals The Bulk Section Consider the food items you eat regularly Consider MyPlate
10 Tips to Stock Your Pantry 1. Hold on to whole grains. 2. Bet on beans. 3. Don't forget fruits and veggies. 4. Feature fish. 5. Nosh on nuts. 6. Think outside the cereal bowl. 7. Fill your pantry with flavor. 8. Spice things up. 9. Invest in healthy fats. 10. Buy basic baking items.
Organizing Your Pantry Choose a space for your pantry Include common cooking ingredients Organize your pantry according to types of foods so that you can find things. Consider your freezer an extension of your pantry. Rotate and clean out your pantry on a regular basis
Questions and Discussion
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