A Fresh Start to a Healthier You!
This 3-4 lesson series is a holistic adult-learning series that uses practical experience and information to help change lives and improve health. Participants learn how to provide safe, healthy, and economical meals for their families and themselves. A part of the Better Living for Texans (BLT) program, A Fresh Start to a Healthier You! includes research-based lessons that integrate the importance of healthy nutrition with an emphasis on increasing fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity, food safety, and food resource management. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and Food and Nutrition Services sponsor this program. This program is offered at no charge to the participant.
To complement and support each session, participants will take home the following:
- Support of friends
- Confidence to cook healthy meals for their children and family
- Pocket guide with practical cooking and shopping tips
- Incentive item
- Recipe(s) for success in the kitchen
Contact Better Living for Texans County Extension Agent, Jade Edgar to learn more about the program, via email (jade.edgar@ag.tamu.edu) or phone (972-825-5175).
