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Food Resolutions to Combat Hunger in Idaho

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014   

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - New Year's resolutions often focus on food - usually making "healthier food choices." Those choices can be tough when families have limited food budgets, so a new project in the Coeur d'Alene area will help families with children discover ways to focus on nutrition and taste with kid-tested recipes.

Food insecurity and rates of overweight or obese children are connected, said Kathy Gardner, director of the Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force, so the project will focus on both issues.

"It presents nutrition education in a fun and age-appropriate way," she said, "and it addresses food insecurity by getting food into the homes of the children."

The program will be offered in select schools and in after-school settings, and will use the "Choose My Plate" resources from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Groceries sent home for recipes will come from Safeway stores.

Gardner said one in five children in Idaho is considered food insecure, and about 28 percent are overweight or obese. The basic goal for improving health, for kids and adults, is "food literacy."

"They begin to make better choices when they really are literate about how far their food's traveling, where it comes from, what the nutrients are, what the balance needs to be on that plate," she said.

An added benefit to the program is that students in the Family, Consumer and Career Leaders of America organization also will be involved, and Gardner said she hopes the partnership will help build emerging leaders for hunger-relief projects.

The Food Research and Action Center and Safeway Foundation issued a grant for the project.


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