Nutrition Workshops

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NUTRITION WORKSHOPS

The BPS Family Advocacy and Engagement Center is teaming up with the UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program to offer their popular Certificate Course to the parents of Brockton Public Schools’ students.  

The program, CHOICES: Steps toward Health, is a series of workshops designed to help families with children on a limited income, live a healthier life.

 
   

All workshops will be held at 43 Crescent St., Crosby Administration Building, Brockton, MA.

Thursday, February 6, 2020 (Registration)

  9:30 a.m. Welcome Lesson - Highlights of the Course

10:00 a.m. Moving to the Mambo - Active Living

11:00 a.m. Whole Grain Twist - Eating More Whole Grains

 

Thursday, February 13, 2020

10:00 a.m. Fruit & Veggie Salsa - Add Color to Your Life

11:00 a.m. Limbo Lower Now - Lower Fats, Sugar & Salt

 

Thursday, February 27, 2020

10:00 a.m. Kitchen Calypso - Becoming a Wise Shopper

11:00 a.m. Food Safety 4-Step - Keeping Food Safe

 

Thursday, March 5, 2020

10:00 a.m. Fast Foods A-Go-Go - Healthier Fast Food

11:00 a.m. Fit & Fabulous - Healthy At Any Size

Participants will receive the following:

  • ·       A personalized diagnostic report assessing current diet with the 2010-2015 Dietary Guidelines
  • ·       10 colorful, step-by-step booklets on getting more nutrition & fitness for your money
  • ·       Recipes that will be prepared and tasted in two lessons
  • ·       Reinforcement Gifts! Measuring cups, spoons, shopping list pad, pedometer, food & fridge thermometers.

Complete six lessons, with entry and exit records, and receive a Graduation Certificate, a Healthy Recipes Cookbook, and the Farmers’ Market Shopping Bag.

For more information and to register for the workshop please contact Janice Johnson-Plumer at 508-208-5518 or via email at janicejohnsonplumer@bpsma.org or Barbara Alicea at 774-274-2661 or via email at BarbaraAlicea@bpsma.org by January 31,2020.