Cooking Matters®

Chippewa County shoppers learn to buy healthy groceries on a budget

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:35:57 +0000

[Soo Evening News] — Sault Ste. Marie — More than 70 shoppers in Chippewa County have learned new skills for buying healthy food on a limited budget in the last 18 months, during a series of educational grocery shopping tours held in grocery stores.

Novi Woman Teaches Cooking to Low-Income Families

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:32:18 +0000

[Novi Patch] — Gleaners chef instructor Ina Cheatem often teaches single mothers and people on food stamps how to cook healthy meals on a budget.

Seasonal Spring Favorites

admin — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:02:37 +0000

As the weather starts to warm up, try one of our spring favorites, full of seasonal ingredients and bursting with flavor!

Davidson: Chefs Up Front benefits nutrition on a budget classes in Colorado

admin — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:26:57 +0000

[Denver Post] — What happens when you put 32 chefs, 10 bartenders and 320 guests in a nice event space? If you’re talking Chefs Up Front — and we are — there’s lots to eat, lots to drink and lots of money raised for Cooking Matters, a program that teaches low-income Coloradans how to prepare nutritious meals on a budget.

Local families learn tips to buying health foods on a budget

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:01:42 +0000

[WHEC-News10] – Some Rochester area families learned how to stretch their family food budget and find healthy foods on Tuesday. The event was part of a joint effort from the Foodlink’s Cooking Matters’ team and the Greater Rochester Health Foundation’s 5-2-1-0 campaign.

Cooking Matters to be presented by Somersworth Youth Connection

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:48:16 +0000

Foster’s Daily Democrat: The Somersworth Youth Connection, an after school program for middle school students will be learning hands on how to eat healthy on a budget under the direction of Cooking Matters. Growing to serve more than 17,000 families nation wide, Cooking Matters is an organization that strives to empower families with the skills, knowledge and confidence to prepare healthy affordable meals.

Cooking Matters featured on NBC Nightly News

admin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:18:29 +0000

We were thrilled to have our Cooking Matters program profiled on NBC Nightly News on Saturday, January 26 in the show’s “Making a Difference” segment. If you missed it, you can watch it here. NBC also posted a longer clip on its website, available here.

Cooking Matters in the Washington Post

admin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:34:45 +0000

“Shopping for healthful food on a budget” NEW YORK — Three adults squatted in the cereal aisle of the Key Foods grocery store in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Each had plucked a different kind of oatmeal from one of the lower shelves. They were trying to determine which was the most healthful and the most affordable. Read the full article here.

Cooking Matters Helps Families Prepare Healthy, Affordable Meals

admin — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:59:29 +0000

John Rex Endowment-The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle (IFFS) offers Cooking Matters, a national nutrition education course that was featured on NBC Nightly News. Local classes, which are offered to children, families and child care professionals, use nationally developed curricula to teach low-income families how to purchase and prepare healthy foods.

PROFILE 2013: The food groups

admin — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:58:01 +0000

Irontron Tribune-Kristin Wheatley painstakingly grates a carrot against the small side of the square stainless-steel grater. The caution is not so much to ensure the evenness of the carrot, but because scraped knuckles can hurt.