Mission/Goals

THE EXPANDED FOOD AND NUTRITION EDUCATION PROGRAM (EFNEP) assists limited resource families and youth in acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behaviors necessary for nutritionally sound diets and contributes to their personal development and the improvement of the total family diet and nutritional well-being
 

What do EFNEP participants learn?

Basic Nutrition

• Healthy eating habits
• Important nutrients, their functions, and food sources
• Healthy snacks for children
• Eating for two
• Nutrition facts for the family

• How to stretch the available food dollars and food stamps
• Menu planning
• Use of commodity foods
• Shopping techniques

• Healthy cooking methods
• Food preservation
• Food safety and storage
• Weight reduction
• Low-cost recipes

  The development of this website is supported with Food and Nutrition Service funding from the United States Department of Agriculture. 

Updated 09-04-2009 by: Kimberly Wilson-Sweebe