{"id":4614,"date":"2008-02-25T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-08-26T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:52:34","slug":"cooking-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/cooking-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking with Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost 50% of meals consumed in the US are away from home.\u00a0 This is a scary trend that continues to increase each year.\u00a0 With this, obesity continues to increase, and the lack of cooking skills with the younger population decreases.\u00a0 Many factors play into this increase in meals eaten away from home:<\/p>\n

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  1. Lack of time for meal prep by parents<\/li>\n
  2. Lack of time for children to be at home to learn<\/li>\n
  3. Busy life styles<\/li>\n
  4. When they do cook, parents just want to get the meal on the table, and don’t want the mess or hassle of taking the time to work with their children<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I received a grant from the Nebraska Action for Healthy Kids<\/span> last fall.\u00a0 With this money, I am providing after school classes for the students at St. Bernard’s Child Care.\u00a0 For twelve Friday afternoons this school year, we get together in the kitchen, and learn about nutrition, cooking, and exercise.\u00a0 The children also get a healthy dose of food safety incorporated.\u00a0 My goal is to teach basic cooking skills, increase the amount of fruits and vegetables these children eat, and increase their activity levels.\u00a0 When the class is over, the Child Care will receive all of the educational and cooking materials, so that they can continue to provide a program like this during the summer. \"thumbs-up.jpg\"<\/a>\"thumbs-up.jpg\"<\/p>\n

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    The curriculum used is Cookin with Kids<\/span> from KSU.\u00a0 We make two or three recipes each week, and we utilize a Xavix program (like a Wii) for exercise.\u00a0 The feed back so far has been very positive!\u00a0 The parents think its great, and the kids love to make actual recipes on their own!\u00a0 Check back in the future to see new pictures of the children.<\/p>\n

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    Almost 50% of meals consumed in the US are away from home.\u00a0 This is a scary trend that continues to increase each year.\u00a0 With this, obesity continues to increase, and the lack of cooking skills with the younger population decreases.\u00a0 Many factors play into this increase in meals eaten away from home: Lack of time for meal prep by parents Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e","cat-42-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/maddiepedometer1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/9047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}