Cooking Matters at the Store is an interactive, guided grocery store tour that teaches adults to make real changes to their food shopping habits by helping families learn how to make healthy food choices on a limited budget. This facilitator-led tour has its roots in the grocery store tour that is a critical learning experience in our cooking-based courses for adults. To learn more, click here.

Cooking Matters for Chefs and Kids! is our easy-to-use guide that helps chefs and others provide hands-on instruction that will help kids develop a love of cooking and the skills to make healthy food choices wherever they go. Within the guide you will find a variety of resources to help you engage kids, including tips and advice for planning fun activities, materials lists and activity instructions, appealing and interactive recipes for kids, and fun handouts that supplement the lessons of each activity. We hope that you find this guide useful as you plan and carry out your activities with kids. Please click here to download the kit.

Exploring Food Together is a toolkit of simple activities that adults who work with young children can use, in the classroom or in the home, to help young children learn about new foods and start building the skills to make healthy food choices. These field-tested, easy-to-use activities center around 5 basic food concepts: food identification and tasting; food purchasing; food preparation; food origins; and food culture.All of the toolkit activities were designed to integrate well with overall curriculum objectives in early childhood education settings. Click here to get more information and download the kit.

Cooking Matters in Your Community is a free guide to leading a food-based demonstration with adults, kids, teens, or families. It can be used in any community by any individual. The guide provides simple instructions for planning and leading a demonstration, and includes tools like checklists, sample outlines, and culinary tips. It also contains a wealth of activities, handouts, and recipes to use at your demo. Click here to download it today.

Cooking Matters presents a new series of short handouts chock-full of fun activities and recipes for kids. Each issue has a different theme, focused on healthy eating and cooking. These are great activities for parents, teachers, caregivers and volunteers to use with the children in their lives!