Food $ense begins the new school year with a new (and exciting!) format. Our lessons will center on recipes, topics and ideas featured in ChopChop magazine, a fun cooking magazine for families. Each student in every Food$ense classroom will get their own issue of each edition of ChopChop to use in the classroom and bring home to share with their family.
Students will also make a recipe from each issue and we hope you continue to expand your child’s cooking repertoire by making other recipes at home.
To get a peek at some of the outstanding recipes, tips and features in the magazine, check it out on line… www.chopchopmag.org.
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Hi! I’m writing from ChopChop to tell you how excited we are that you’re using the magazine at your school! Please let us know how it goes.
Hi Catherine,
I get to visit several schools in Thurston County, (Washington State) doing nutrition education for our Food $ense program which is funded by the Federal SNAP program. The goal of our program is to promote behavior change in families – to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables, whole grains and low fat dairy in their diets.
This year, we are providing issues of ChopChop for every student in every classroom I visit! My program also supplies the equipment and food so that (with the help of their teachers) students also get to make one recipe from each issue in their classroom before taking it home to share with their families. Feedback from parents, teachers and students has been very positive, and it’s my personal feeling that ChopChop is the perfect vehicle for helping students and their families eat better. Kids love to cook – and are very open to trying new foods if they have had a hand in making them.
We will be doing evaluations to study the impact of our program, I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, thank you for your excellent magazine blog posts. I love reading about your experiences teaching Ben and Birdy to cook!
Please feel free to get in touch with me directly if you have further questions.
Sue Duffy
sduffy@wsu.edu