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Cooking with Kids and Snow Days!

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The forecast is for 6-10 inches of snow and ice—and I know I will be home with the kids again.  Welcome to February in Nebraska!  You can only let them watch so many movies and eventually they run out of homework.  One project all of my kids have gotten into is cooking.  They WILL learn how to feed themselves so that when they move out, they will not live in a drive-thru.  I am really not worried.  They all like
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Are Canned Foods Nutritious for My Family?

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by Roberta Duyff, MS RD FADA Quick and convenient: more than 1500 varieties of canned foods appear on today's supermarket shelves: traditional fare, along with a variety of nutritionally positioned products – for example, sodium-free, low-fat, no-added-sugar and others. Some benefits:
  • Long shelf life. Canned fruits and vegetables are preservative-free; the canning process (high temperatures and sterile containers) destroys organisms that would cause spoilage. Canned food remains safe as long as the container remains intact. Although most canned foods are coded
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Ending Hunger – One Breakfast at a Time

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One in six children in Nebraska and Iowa is food insecure, meaning they don’t always know where their next meal is coming from. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension joined the Hunger Free Heartland (HFH) Initiative which began in 2009.  This initiative consists of a group of agencies, local business, organizations and government entities that have come together to end childhood hunger in the Omaha and Council Bluffs area. HFH is
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