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EFNEP, the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, is federally funded and conducted through the Cooperative Extension Service in every state and U.S. territory. For over 30 years, EFNEP has been helping families with children learn how to eat healthier meals and snacks, stretch their food dollars and reduce the risk of food-borne illness.
Adults
Faced with the challenges of paying rent, utilities, day care, and other daily expenses, families experience the stress of trying to provide a variety of nutritious foods and maintain healthy diets on limited budgets. EFNEP provides a variety of tools and ideas to help families cut food costs and provide healthy meals and snacks for family members. Adults enrolled in EFNEP learn how to:
- Plan low cost nutritious meals
- Prepare quick and healthy meals and snacks
- Shop for the best food buys
- Keep foods safe to eat
- Eat right and light to control sugar, salt, fat and calories
Youth
EFNEP offers a variety of nutrition education experiences for every family member! Fun food experiences, that teach children healthy food choices, are conducted with pre-school, Pre-K and school age youth through:
- Pre-school day care center programs
- School-based classes
- After-school community classes
- Summer workshops and day camps
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